Oh that's so great to hear 👍🏼 her musical influences are unreal on this album. She really went deep. I'm so blown away as well by the amount of artistry that went into that whole entire album. I have goosebumps currently.

Thank you for sharing!! I love how good music brings us together

Happy belated

@@Blaquebarbgamer thanks!

Happiest of belated birthdays!!

🤯

She’s a WOMAN. Not a girl.

I think the sermon part is a kind of interpolation of “For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield. Love it

"I'm the one to cleanse me of my father's sins"? Beyonce might use church sounds, but that ain't no church message. It's self idolatry. She's dressing in churchface.

Brilliant. This whole album is like a masterpiece. The way it opens with AMERIICAN Requiem and closes with Amen is just a couple of ways it’s perfection. The progression and juxtaposition of Spaghettii and Alliigator Tears have me in a chokehold today.

Sure. Ok.

​@hermanmunster714 it's OK to be a fan boo, only fans come to a page to the artist that they don't like

"her talent" plus 12 other songwriters to come up with this one song.

@@JB-ti7bl and she gives those 12 writers their due as well. It takes a unique individual to do what she does, if not, we would all be a beyonce

​@@JB-ti7bland?

Insanely awful

​@@Khsjsj probably bc it's for a different crowd and it may not be what u wanna hear

​@@Khsjsjget a job

Lie again

@@mariahscurry19please seek for help, get a life

Thats the one I'm waiting for because Beyonce definitely going to go in I'm not.sure if she's going to go tina turner with it but for the mean time we can enjoy this masterpiece

Act III is going to make me lose my fucking mind omg

I can't wait for the rock era!!!

Oh God... I almost forgot that there's another album coming💀😭😭😳 the fact that she's outdone herself on this already and now she's releasing ANOTHER ALBUM??? WHAT???!! OMG...

I can’t wait! I thought Rock was gonna be act ii

Soo it!!!!!!!! Anyway, "Hum, play, make sure you get your cream on! We now listening to Big Novie Music, it hits forever, UBreak ¡Don't Judge. Really get into it too. Listen to, Big Novie.

A pretty house that we never settled in" this line hits so deep. i kid you not every listen gets me in tears.

Which ideas are she referring to? I'm not American

@@samfrost9957all the hypocrisy of a supposedly democratic nation

@@samfrost9957she’s referring to the ideas of the people who first created the country genre

Can you stand me? Can we stand? Can you stand with me? Chills

Jajajajjajaja

All I'm saying is whaaaaaaat!!!! Took me to church, to the river and back 🙌🏾

BEYONCE❤

It’s mesmerizing

Yup! ❤

I thought it was going to be a full country album, but I'm glad she added rock.

Southern Rock.

It's such an incredible opening track! This is a masterpiece of an album

@unknownx7252 isn’t Act 3 going to be rock?

Amen

It's not. The lyrics are horrible. Not one concept is grasped. Just words everywhere.

@@prettygemini3432 bitter

@@prettygemini3432You dont understand MUSIC. Stop hating on something that clearly u can’t understand, every lyric of this song has its own meaning, so, if u cannot get it LEAVE.

THIS IS IT

Yup. The vocal distortion got Prince written all over it. I hear a lot of Tina in Yaya. R.I.P to both of these icons

You can tell in her music she is heavily influenced by Prince. Schoolin Life has Prince Tina and Whitney ALL over it! One of my faves.

Some Aretha too

Yes. I definitely heard and felt Prince in that high note

I definitely said Prince immediately

Some of her best vocals ever

😂😂😂😂😂

Over a 100 easy

Reminds me of Queen

I agree, Queen put in work! And it shows!!

The album is a protest? Why are ppl so obsessed with protesting? It's exhausting. Just enjoy her songs.

@@JB-ti7blcuz folks ain’t got nothing else going on

I guess that's it. Back in the day, when there was a protest, you figured some major event happened. Now it just means...whatever.

FR … And I love how she waited to release it without any haste…Cowboy Carter was supposed to be released prior to renaissance act i

Im still listening to renaissance.... then this comes out.... whoop whoop

What "industry games" are you referring to? Honest question. Why does there always need to be this undercurrent of anger and protest? She's a married billionaire mom with a #1 album. Beyonce is darn near worshipped.

Yes!!🥹

I agree! The intro immediately made me think of the group Queen.

Imagine being so dumb you insult queen like that. My god

yes!!!

Totally

She pretty much covered all genres except Latin, I’m counting 12-15 Grammy Nod

yesssssss

@@nicholasloving6236she has a lot of Spanish songs actually. Even sung a lot of songs in Spanish like Irreplaceable

how much money do you have

Rap as well and House.

Thank you for this comment. 😢❤

Much love. God bless you ❤

Sure if you think so. 🤡

@@hermanmunster714 here's the thing... when enough of us think *it*, it does bring change. It's never one politician who'll change "the system". It's us, when we decide to be better and do better. Hope you have a nice day ✌

"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them"

I imagine her gingerly pulling her coat open to reveal her pistol when she sings that part, as if to say, "While I do com in peace and love, YOUR peace depends on how you move." 😂

I agree!

In terms helping to meet the needs of time in which it was written, It might be the best song anyone has ever done.

This is the new American Anthem.

Really? It felt kinda slow and featureless to me. Of course, toward the end she gets into her "woe is me" message.

@@JB-ti7blSTOP being so bitter! You’re literally all over the comments hating. A hateful MONITORING spirit is what you are. Get well soon!

That’s a great idea……

She already does have a Tony, from her Lemonade era.

a Peabody not a Tony@@mgmartin1526

She's NEVER received Album of The Year!

​@@litaproctor9856it's coming! 🎉

I feel like Beyonce is following in the footsteps of country legend Ray Charles. Genius black singer/songwriter of the 60s. In the early 60s, he crossed over from an already successful career in gospel, R&B, and jazz, and moved on to soul, then consciously took elements of all of them to country music, with his landmark album Modern Sounds of Country and Western. He was told “The people who like country music don’t want to hear you sing it, and the people who like to listen to you sing don’t listen to country.” Many artists credit him as the most important influence on country music. Like Beyonce, he introduced fans of the other genres to country & western music. Like Beyonce, he collaborated with many other popular artists. He worked Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell, Hank Williams, as well as Billy Joel and eventually Van Morrison. What an amazing cross section of artists. I think it is so damn cool that Willie Nelson collaborated with Ray Charles in 1985 AND with Beyonce in 2024. Beyonce is a genius, as was Ray Charles. I could go on about their similarities and potential contributions to musical and societal integration, but I’ll just say this. I am learning to appreciate Beyoncé’s music, and culture, more as I listen to and study this masterpiece of an album. She is sharing her gifts with us, like so many before her. And I appreciate it.

Exactlllllyyyyyyyyy!

Because it’s not our county

@@Danieei Speak for yourself! It's definitely MY country. We have more blood, sweat and tears seeped into the foundation of this nation than most people. I dare someone to tell me that this isn't my country

We are better off today than we have ever been in the history of this county and y’all still complaining. When will it ever be good enough.

Deut. 28:30 😔

Beyonce has lost her voice 😂 she sounds terrible

@@zakariashartley”14 comments on this channel” girl you are obsessed

Sameee she found it it’s her weapon ❤❤

@@zakariashartleyyou can’t hear???

@@zakariashartleyLMAO u r a joke

Better than hip-hop at least. It's nice to see music bending back toward a more rootsy sound. Covering a Beatles song w/ acoustic guitar is also a return to music everyone can enjoy.

I feel like Beyonce may be following in the footsteps of country legend Ray Charles. Genius black singer/songwriter of the 60s. In the early 60s, he crossed over from an already successful career in gospel, R&B, and jazz, and moved on to soul, then consciously took elements of all of them to country music, with his landmark album Modern Sounds of Country and Western. Like Beyonce, he introduced fans of the other genres to country & western music. Like Beyonce, he collaborated with many other popular artists. He worked Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell, Hank Williams, as well as Billy Joel and eventually Van Morrison. What an amazing cross section of artists. I think it is so damn cool that Willie Nelson collaborated with Ray Charles in 1985 AND with Beyonce in 2024. Beyonce is a genius, as was Ray Charles. I could go on about their similarities and potential contributions to musical and societal integration, but I’ll just say this. I am learning to appreciate Beyoncé’s music more as I listen to and study this masterpiece of an album. She is sharing her gifts with us, like so many before her. And I appreciate it.

​@JB-ti7bl better than hip hop? Every genre of music brings its own unique sound but um k sure

Ikr me too

👊🏾👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿couldn’t have said it any better

this is her A/W

Sort of like her Twerking, right?

Girl this makes me feel like I’m driving through the south of America 🇺🇸 somewhere I have never been 🤷🏽‍♀️

Mine too!! The lyrics, instruments, background singers, her voice!! Such a great song!! ❤

Everyday. Right now 🎉

Me too. It's amazing as a body of work and I love the story it tells.

I have/am. This whole album is just such a masterpiece to me. It's so good and I love the storytelling as well ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Everyday on my bike rides since it came out. While I can still hear the perfection, cycling is not a proper way to LISTEN to an album, particularly one that's multi-layered as this. Unfortunately, that's the only time that I listen to music in a back-to-back manner.

Every Single Day! ✨ ✨✨

Sis I'm in tears I've been in youtube streaming this album,I can't she is too amazing for us to comprehend

Amen.

Hopefully you'll get a chance to work with her someday!

Soo it!!!!!!!! Anyway, "Hum, play, make sure you get your cream on! We now listening to Big Novie Music, it hits forever, UBreak ¡Don't Judge. Really get into it too. Listen to, Big Novie.

act iii ❤

😂I literally said this same thing the other day

She can do anything she wants that’s how amazing she is breaking every genre and barriers in music itself!!! 😩

She can do anything that is why they hate our gem 💎 I can’t stop crying listening to this song 😢

She was born to be a rock star. It will be her best !!

wait girl me too

Not weird at all, I did as well.

I cried listening to her duet with Miley Cyrus

no not at all it’s beautiful

Not at all ❤ Everytime i listen it makes me think of family lineage. Beautiful opening.

I can see that, on the contrary though, I think it's the ideologys of America that we've been fed and programmed to think.

@@MichaelSmith-ri6ekThe beauty of truly good lyrics is that they can be interpreted by each listener in a different way, with only the essence staying consistent. I love it.

She is truly brilliant, I hate so many people miss out on her work not realizing what they are missing out on. Truly a blessing to be alive while she’s doing this.

Well said, you giving me goose bumps, and bringing tears to this 72 yr old woman eyes, WELL SAID!!!!

It’s homage to a line from Prince’s “For You” album ❤

Fr fr

So damn good!

Please don't take the Lord's Name in vain

​@@di4791Not Everyone Is a Christian Please respect others beliefs.

'God' isn't the Lord's name. Please make sense@@di4791

When she releases a video it will be more clear

​@JessJayEel y'all might as well hold off on the visuals, I honestly don't think the visuals are going to come . Film is money, for act 1 renaissance it has 16 songs and cowboy Carter it has 26 songs, plus we don't know how long the track list for act3 is going to be,I honestly don't think we are going to get visuals, it's going to be more than likely like formation

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Nah, it seems pretty straightforward. Beyonce is a fabulously wealthy, successful woman, but she still needs to show that she "struggles". So, she and her 12 co-writers create a vague enemy who tried to hold her back. But, her own awesomeness eventually saved her!

Everyone struggles no matter how rich and succesful you might be.

The 12 other co-writers of this song probably helped, haha!

In your dreams

​@@Godofwar20233 stay mad cause damn she's right

Actually this track is a skip.

You better listen to state of grace and welcome to new york.

Still she tanked 😂

I hear it too!!!! 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿💜💜💜 And you know they loved her Prince and Michael 🤗🤗

Absolutely Prince 💜💜💜 Vibes! I’m so happy right now. This Woman is truly spreading JOY all over the world 🌎!

Part 3: Rock

I’m getting Queen too

Exactly!

This. ☝🏾

That’s right

Y no solo de su propio país también de los nuestros 😢

Sung by a billionaire black women. Time to get over the past.

@@JB-ti7bl the Beatles and U2 are billionaires who sing about world peace, so what’s your point?

You felt? Did it hurt?

You will not get a cent.

❤❤❤❤❤

IN THE SOUL

Yea, I felt too, sad to hear such hubris.

10000%. Said the same thing.

Fr

I was typing the exact same thing. Its like you can hear him all over this. She studies!!!!

ABSOLUTELY 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

A funeral for fair weather friends, I am the one to cleanse me of my father's sins ... That hit my SOUL so deeply.... I am in tears.... ❤ Thank you for that gift.

Kiss an Angel Good Morning -Charley Pride

I feel like Beyonce is following in the footsteps of country legend Ray Charles. Genius black (blind) singer/songwriter of the 60s. In the early 60s, he crossed over from an already successful career in gospel, R&B, and jazz, and moved on to soul, then consciously took elements of all of them to country music, with his landmark album Modern Sounds of Country and Western. He was told, “The people who listen to country don’t want to hear YOU sing it, and the people who like to listen to you don’t listen to country.” Many artists consider him to be the most important influence on the evolution of country music. Like Beyonce, he introduced fans of the other genres to country & western music. Like Beyonce, he collaborated with many other popular artists. He worked Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell, Hank Williams, as well as Billy Joel and eventually Van Morrison. What an amazing cross section of artists. I think it is so damn cool that Willie Nelson collaborated with Ray Charles in 1985 AND with Beyonce in 2024. Beyonce is a genius, as was Ray Charles. I could go on about their similarities and potential contributions to musical and societal integration, but I’ll just say this. I am learning to appreciate Beyoncé’s music, and culture, more as I listen to and study this masterpiece of an album. She is sharing her gifts with us, like so many before her. And I appreciate it.

Yes

That’s a nice perspective of yours. I’m black American and didn’t get that vibe at all.

No it ain’t 😂

Come on bro, you didn't invent EVERY genre of music in this country. Bluegrass comes from the Scots-Irish descendents of Appalachia, ditto for many elements of country

Screaming 😂

dude....LISTEN TO WHAT SHES SAYINGGGGG PLEASEEEE

Definitely born from the CMA performance. I love it!!!

True 😂😂😂😂😂

😂😂

I been saying this for years!!!! They can’t handle what they CANT understand!

Who does not understand? ​@asmooth7758

I think you are wrong. She already won every possible award and ist the unofficial official Queen of the USA. That's what many Papers, Talk Show Hosts and Media already Said years ago and it's still Like that. Maybe more than ever. Everybody loves Beyoncé. She's the Winner, she's the Queen.....what else?!

​@misterx4981 we want what album of the year for her. Okay? Give us what's ours and not a penny less

The best that ever did it!!

Can’t wait to see her perform this at CMA

asé

This is rock/pop not country you can twang your voice and decide it’s country lol

@@makers721🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱

@@Roller324 you can yawn all you want but it doesn’t change facts. Her music is good, let’s agree on that. Country it is not.

Yep! She's wishing the Old Guard of the CMA, RIP. What I love is Dolly, Willie Nelson, Linda Martell and Miley are helping her do it. All hail the QUEEN!

Too deep

She’s killing the old way

@@morgangibbs5836 You can't kill what's already dead. Her performance at the CMAs with The Chicks was, in fact, the removal of Life Support for the genre. Since that performance, the number of African Americans entering the genre is astounding. The CMA has been dying a slow death for decades. It's taken an African American Creole Woman from Houston, TX, to play it's dirge to it's burial site. Country Music is being returned to it's rightful home.

Beyonce better be careful identifying as Christian. That could get her cancelled by the Left quickly.

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Revenge for what?

Love this comment

What happened

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Funny, someone upthread says this song is her "fighting back against white people".

Don't listen to that other person

The "lookah dere" was such a southern gospel church moment 🙌

Sprinkle a little "churchy" sound on your pop song. Face-palm. There's a word for that: cultural appropriation.

@@JB-ti7bl "Black churchy" and Beyonce is Black.

Bea 3:16 Looka looka looka looka looka lokaka round looka looka looka wooo

@@jessebetend1569 l l l l l l l l l l l l l looka dere

"I am the one to cleanse me of my father's sins" That ain't Biblical, that's idolatry.

@@JB-ti7bl werk queen

😅😊😢I'm crying So Amazing

The vocal after 16 computers.

@@jaissona6176you wish

@@jaissona6176hear her live

I love how there seems to be so many songs I recognize and yet can't place

I'm surprised how did she know that she will receive criticism for doing this album... bcz she recorded this before Renaissance... I think she can see future ... queen for a reason

​​@@ajoybanik7455It was after The CMAS she was criticized for not being "country enough" in 2016. Daddy Lessons was rejected for country category even after the remix with The Chicks which got her even more backlash

@@AngeBiampandou I like that she held back a bit because that was also a massive comeback for the dixie chicks after they were blackballed, she let them have their moment...That performance was a massive statement in itself because black people are forgotten in country music as if they weren't the originators. After that performance there were loads of racists complaining, while the show had its highest viewer ratings

This has to be one of my favorite sounds! Call it whatever you want, I call it great music 🎶!!

@@astronani1999YES!!! Odd that CMAs got furious and sided with racist folks

And gospel!

Maybe Stephen Stills will sue for copyright infringement?

Thanks to the writers and the producers behind these songs

​@@imnotfine. How much do you want to bet that the artists you listen to don't 100% write all of their songs but if Beyoncé doesn't write or co-write on some songs, all of a sudden, that's a problem and takes away from her talent and success. Acting like she wasn't recognized for her songwriting skills, isn't also credited as a songwriter for some of her songs, etc. I need people like you to shut the hell up.

Singers' voices lose the top end as they age. Joe Walsh can't even sing his old sings anymore.

@@JB-ti7bl Beyoncé didn't lose any range

The album cover shows Beyonce with an American flag. That won't be popular among Leftists.

I was just thinking this is reminiscent of what's going on by Marvin Gaye

Soo it!!!!!!!! Anyway, "Hum, play, make sure you get your cream on! We now listening to Big Novie Music, it hits forever, UBreak ¡Don't Judge. Really get into it too. Listen to, Big Novie.

Insanely good

Jon Batiste! 🙌🏾🙌🏾

Fr. Props to Jon Batiste for the instrumental production and to Beyonce for the vocal arrangements and stacking. Absolutely insane.

Gotta ignore those idiots. They think the bro “country” garbage on the radio is real country.

They literally said she was a horrible actress because of how country she was.

They're not talking about just the music. They are talking about her right to call herself and people who look like her Americans. Time to stand up and fight the Ameriican Requiem and resist what this country was founded on by evil forefathers who enslaved her forefathers/mothers. Those crying about this album know who she talking to and about.

THIS!!!

So true!!!

Yeah and “they” are gonna laugh at this. It’s not a song I don’t know what it is. Trash. And then you’re gonna say we’re racist for not liking it 😂

@@Khsjsjif you don’t like this you are literally drinking a lot of haterade. What’s there to even laugh about?

@@BruceGoodhair if I don’t like a song I’m a hater? Lmao 😂😂😂 what an idiot

@@Khsjsj what albums are in your top 3 in the country genre?

@@Khsjsj that's a lot of mouth and energy spent gaining views for the song. every comment made here drives it up in the youtube algorithm and tells youtube how popular it is and how much conversation it's causing. so, thanks!

I think she was trying to channel Prince !

And did@@coolaideevens8678

@@coolaideevens8678agreed

It helps to have 12 co-writers.

@@JB-ti7bl well babe there co-writers because they don’t have her vocal talent sooo I guess that’s not the drag you thought it was 😭

Yes those words brought me to tears too, the meanings are endless and represent todays world so well 😭

Same! This is powerful!