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THE FULL ONE FINALLY UPLOADED!!!!! I deleted the first part, enjoy it all here <3 YouTube hates me

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Katie Fritz

I think it is a literal masterpiece. I listened to it last night at 11:30pm. She outdid herself.

Laura Ballantine

Hand to heaven is atmospheric but I think, dare I say, her Venice bitch. I thought it was sexy, sweet, intimate and was giving me Cater 2 u/good for you vibes. I didn’t even notice how long the song was because I got lost in it. I ascended from river dance > hands to heaven > tyrant The titanic line in daughter made me laugh out loud. On first listen this album maybe could have been edited but vocally I was gagged the whole time.

Augs

A desert eagle is a gun btw, love the video

Jess Gray

Yea I’ve decided Post Malone is hot

Cierra Neitzel

Oooo! Exploring how country music continues to gatekeep and get away with it sounds like a great topic for the snake creators to investigate!!

Asher Conniff

amazing as an album!! did you catch the taylor swift loop in body guard??? i think the renaissance albums are ALBUMS and some of the singles work well on their own, but mostly the music is better together

Jess Gray

So I am not sure if yall know this but McCartney has been pretty open that Blackbird was inspired by the Little Rock Nine.

Dana

Loved the “John Wayne that ass!” lyric

TiffK83

Just beginning your video but I’ve listened to the album twice. For me, it has some high highs and some low lows. For me, something happens after Levii’s jeans and the album nose dives. I really love or at least like very much: Levii’s jeans American requiem 16 carriages II most wanted Bodyguard Daughter Jolene Protector Blackbird Texas Hold’em Amen & II hands II heaven

Lillian C

I haven’t liked a Beyoncé album like this in quite a while, she outdid herself and uplifted all the black country artists as part of her statement and indictment towards the gatekeeping Republican country music industry

Emme Fugate

I enjoyed listening to this album, but I agree— it’s long. Trimming down the fluff and rearranging a few of the tracks could (in my opinion) make it stronger as a whole. However, overall, I’m sat. When she circled back to “America Requiem” I got chills, and I’m such a sucker for an interlude. Soooooo…

Andrea

I really enjoyed the album! I agree that, at times, I was kind of bored with so many interludes.I loooved how she challenged herself creatively to bring so many different types of music, which I really liked because it kept me on my toes. I've always shied away from listening to country music because I felt like I couldn't connect with it, since I'm latina and have no proximity to southern culture at all; this album has awakened an interest in checking out more country music, which I appreciate. Overall, a great album that's going to be on repeat for the rest of the year! Thank GOD for Beyoncé and her mind lol.

Krista Dabel

But why did I IMMEDATIELY well up with tears when I heard Dolly's voice?? Queeeeeen of all the things. Dolly forever. <3

Shannon McKenna

I LOVED this album! I got very much a 60's Civil Rights folk/country motif on a few songs. Definitely BLACKBIIRD. AMERIICAN REQUIEM gave a bit of For What It's Worth (Stop What's That Sound). And then the Nancy Sinatra/MoTown of it all on YA YA for some good girlie fun. Zach, I live for your reactions, but respectfully, your format didn't set you up for success for a first listen on this one. Because you stop and reflect after every track, you miss the transitions between songs that make this record sonically cohesive in the most literal sense of the phrase. The run from YA YA into OH LOUISIANNA into DESERT EAGLE into RIIVERDANCE is excellence if you just let it play straight. I have theory that it was all one song and she chopped it up (maybe so RIIVERDANCE could be a single?). Like, if Beyonce had made A&W it would have been 2-3 songs for sure... While I do think the album could have done with some editing, I also wanted her to have a few more pauses to let some moments really land... it's almost too tight for me to breathe. But maybe I just need to listen to it 15 million more times to catch-up to what she's doing (a self made mission I'm glad to accept.) Also, a thought on ALLIIGATOR TEARS: the old saying in the south is actually "crocodile tears" because there's a myth that crocodiles cry after killing their prey. Alligators are way more common than crocodiles in the American South, so maybe Beyonce changed it up for the biodiverse-accuracy of it all?

Krista Dabel

Desert Eagle is a big ass handgun lol. I would be curious to know the workings of a sex position called the Desert Eagle, though! Too scared to google it 🙈💀ded

Aif

Such an awful double standard - white artists have been able to assimilate into jazz and soul a lot more seamlessly. Dolly is such an icon for showing her support, ahh! (an icon in general tbr)

Krista Dabel

The nod to Patsy Cline on Sweet Honey Buckin is 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻

Krista Dabel

Yessss. Dolly is a national treasure and the ultimate hype girl. 🙌🏻

Melissa

I thought this was great. Would love a renaissance doc watch along when it’s out! Renaissance and self titled are my number one Beyoncé albums and idk where this will end up

Erin S

Well, this explains Post Malone's pre-Super Bowl performance... he was fully embracing his new country persona then and everyone was so taken aback. I guess you didn't see that since you were like "he can sing?!"

Ria

Also just as a side note about Blackbird, when it was first released in 1968, many people also took it to be about women in the civil rights movement going on at the time, especially because here in England, 'bird' is a colloquial term used to describe a woman/girl. Hence blackbird! Beautiful song either way you look at it.

Parker Burgio

My favorites after first listen are Bodyguard, Spaghettii, Ya Ya, and Riiverdance

Amy Versprille

I liked the Jolene and the Miley song the best

Roxane

on blackbird, this is what Paul McCartney wrote in his autobiography: "At the time in 1968 when I was writing ‘Blackbird,’” he recalls, “I was very conscious of the terrible racial tensions in the U.S. The year before, 1967, had been a particularly bad year, but 1968 was even worse. The song was written only a few weeks after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. That imagery of the broken wings and the sunken eyes and the general longing for freedom is very much of its moment.” and in another book he was quoted stating: “I had in mind a Black woman, rather than a bird,” Paul says of the song in the 1997 book Many Years From Now, by Barry Miles. “Those were the days of the civil rights movement, which all of us cared passionately about, so this was really a song from me to a Black woman, experiencing these problems in the States: ‘Let me encourage you to keep trying, to keep your faith, there is hope.’”

KYLEE K. COSMOS

Hmmmm Beyoncé adding to Jolene lore? I’ll take it. The original is one of my favorite songs, and agreed on Miley’s being the best cover. I’m actually really taken back with the Blackbird cover, another song that is special to me. I didn’t know that it was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, bellissima 👌

Anna Paradis

Loved this reaction! My faves from the album are protector, Jolene, blackbird, and American requiem 🫶

Efstathia Kositzidou

Don't come after me but this must be the most boring album I have heard.The only songs I liked and listen on repeat are the ones with Miley Cyrus and Post Malone.As for the " I am warning you don't come after my man" ,😂😂😂

T

I don't necessarily agree but I absolutely can see why people don't love it

CK

My first Beyoncé album I've heard since Crazy in Love. big jump right? 😅

Rebecca Mueller

I love that on Riiverdance she used her nails as percussion like how dolly used to while writing songs