Beyonce's label really hates YT apparently.....to see my actual full reaction with the songs go to www.patreon.com/swiftologist

The beetles wrote blackbird specifically about black women in the midst of the civil rights movement soooooo it's a perfect choice for this album

celine malone💀

beyonslay just caused a level 1000000000 motherquake and slayed the roof off the house with just her cowboy carter boots

Beyonce is an album-first artist. Not every song is palatable on its own, the whole thing forces you to actually delve into it and bear with her

I feel like 16 carriages is not about struggling financially but struggling to be so young in the music industry. Specifically being so young on destiny’s child and the fear that comes with it

Beyonce and Miley’s voices blended so beautifully.

the album was longz kinda exhausting and EXCELLENT. i dont even understand how Beyonce keeps doing this.

“Jolene found dead in Miami” SENT ME

OHHH BEYOLOGIST YOU NEVER FAIL US

NO ONE is doing seamless transitions like she is. I guess it’s kind of a challenge but I’ve never seen an artist have so many transitions not only between songs, but the last track transitions into the first, AND separate PROJECTS flow into each other?! Insane.

Beyoncé just continuously out does herself. Cowboy Carter has been on repeat, she’s done it again. As always 🖤

Supposedly Blackbird was written about the civil rights movement. If so, it adds so much more meaning to the song selection and theme of the album.

"Protector" is giving me "Mother is mothering." But so far, my favorite track is "Daughter." And her version of Jolene SLAYS. Also "Spaghetti" is giving me Houston Urban Cowboy. It really reminds me of Houston's hip hop scene.

post malone is one of my favorite singers - great voice, distinct diction, insane hooks. levi's jeans is so good & i can't wait for fortnight!

I like catchy singles and all but I’ve always been an album-lover, always looking for the best conceptual body of work. Some people won’t get this album and that’s okay but for those who did, this was a movie for the ears and the mind. Stunning project from start to finish. ❤

if anything, beyonce is one HELL of a visionary. this isn't her most digestible music, and i fs need more time w it. the gp expecting perfectly edited, sleek, tight albums r going to cry "filler" left and right but the sprawling mess of it all feels extremely intentional to me. the album's saying such varied, important things!! even if i dont necessarily love the style i can appreciate the art. god bless bey and god bless u for taking no days off.✌

I was HOPING you would but never thought you actually WOULD. Always feeding the peasants! ❤❤❤❤❤

I get ur approach to this album. Its because you are a swiftie, and they are more on the songwriting aspect of song while beyonce is more on the voice and structures she's working on. Personally, I really love this album, it is on par with renaissance for me.

Love how you mentioned going on a ride, because that's exactly how I felt the whole album - like I was on a ride at an amusement park being guided by all the interludes. It was honestly a really fun first listen!

OMG YaYa is everything to me! I get the musical references, it makes me want to dance and sing, it has a meaningful social and political message, it’s sex positive and crosses genre boundaries. It is literally a masterpiece and I felt that way about upon immediate listen and the more I hear it the more I understand why.

Boots on the ground. We clap for you and queen bey 👑👑

"One thing that I think sometimes alienates me from Beyonce is that her work is so detailed and referential" - said the Swiftologist. The fan of TAYLOR SWIFT (Love your videos

16 Carriages is not about being poor, it's more about the journey from childhood and the struggles of growing up in the industry and spotlight. Beyonce has always used her music to express her feelings and who she is, and you're right she doesn't do many interviews but in her more adult life she uses her art, the documentaries and movies to let her fans in. You have to identify more with her to understand, so I do understand your commentary as someone who doesn't connect completely.

Paul McCartney has been consistent over the years in saying that Blackbird was inspired by racial struggle in the southern United States, and specifically that the figure should be interpreted as a black woman waiting for her moment to arise. So for Bey to choose young Black women artists to feature in this iconic Beatles song (and we know the Fab Four are famous culture vultures, ehem, *heavily inspired* by Black music) is such a CHOICE

Yaya has changed my life

Beyoncé's family did start middle to upper-class but they did struggle financially at some point when her dad quit his job to fully dedicate himself to managing destiny child. I hope this help recontextualize the lyrics

I just learned the Black Bird was inspired by The Little Rock 9. The fact Beyoncé and other new black female country singers are singing it…how poetic. And Jesus her mind. 😮

Ngl I’m a huge Lana fan but I can’t see her topping this act. Beyoncé definitely is gonna win country this year. This was insanely good even for a genre I don’t even like

The album is too good 😭 and it gets better every listen?!??

The shorter songs run into the other songs so if you pause between them you are taking them as fillers but they are parts of larger songs

american requiem is definitely a very weird psychedelic song and not everyone is gonna “get it”, but I also think u just need to listen to other types of music other than pop

II Most Wanted with Miley gives Thelma and Louise vibes. I love it! Bodyguard also just feels like a chill drive on a summer day. And I got literal chills on Daughter and Blackbird. This album is going to be my summer soundtrack.

What makes the outrage so ridiculous is that African Americans are in the DNA of country music. It was founded and molded by the black community. Even the the banjo is an instrument inspired by west african stringed instruments.

Congratulations on your new era, Zach the Beyologist 🤠

I think the most surprising thing for me watching this was realizing that Zach has never heard Circles or Sunflower when he was so shocked that Posty sings 😂 Celine Malone/Post Dion indeed.

Ooooh I would absolutely LOVE a deep dive into the rigidity of traditional country music and how it inevitably excludes or slowly pushes out anyone who isn't straight, white, and either apolitical or outright conservative. I would be SEATED for an exploration into that topic! I really enjoyed Cowboy Carter and I'm a big fan of both Kacey and Maren. Great vid as always Zack!

I'm not a Beyonce scholar, in fact I haven't listened to renaisence but I loved this album! it was so enjoyable to me and I didn't feel the lenght of it. So impressed and I'm happy that "country" is a theme for some artists this year because people have been trying to gatekeep everything that it could be for so long (i like country/folk stuff just not too rednecky) and i'm so glad that beyonce said: I'm Beyonce if I want to do country I'll do country and if you're one of those people who say they like "all music except country" guess what? now you do"

Loving this album, I’ve just been listening to it start to finish, absorbing…

Amazing work Zack! You always upload at the perfect time and your videos never disappoint! My top 3 are II MOST WANTED, LEVIIS JEANS, AND BODYGUARD

This is an amazing album. I'm happy that you doing this video

A few years ago Paul Mccartney talked about how the civil rights movement and the protests of the 1960s were the inspiration behind blackbird and that the song is basically his words of encouragement for black women (he also said that blackbird actually means black girl so “blackbird singing in the dead of night, take these broken wings and learns to fly” = “black girl singing in the dead of night…”)

@23:08 “Celine Malone - Post Dion!” 😂 ily great review, per usual🫶

Did anyone else catch the plethora of 90s references? Titanic, Candle in the Wind, RIIVERDANCE (obvi has a very long history but was HUGE in the 90s), Nick-at-Nite!

No days off-ologist!

ICONIC BEHAVIOR FROM BEYONCÉ AND THEE SWIFTOLOGIST

Riverdance is the pure honey of Cowboy Carter

Country radio is not gonna embrace this album not only because they're racist but also because it's not mediocre enough. They don't even play Zach Bryan despite the fact that he's like their platonic ideal of a country music star because he's too good, and too REAL.

Those colors look amazing on u!

I LOVE THIS ALBUM (BETTER THAN RENAISSANCE??). alsooo what do you think about the "taylor background vocals" in bodyguard? twitter swifties are CONVINCED it's her and i kinda hear it. thoughts?

“CELINE MALONE! POST DION!!!” 😂 I loooove LEVII’S JEANS and it has me even more amped for Posty’s feature on TTPD!

Looking forward to “why Cowboy Carter deserves AOTY”

I won’t lie this is the first Beyoncé album I’ve listened in full for a long long time and I’m loving it. Here for the cuntry sound.

Post Malone does actually sing. You mentioned him being a rapper on EOAS, but as of late I think he’s more of a pop artist.

Oh????? I did NOT expect this!!! GAG

Swiftologist to Beyologist - yes yes yes

I loved 16 carriages and I adored her and Miley’s collaboration. Those harmonies were tight

Beyonce did a great job, and this is a beautiful art piece.

"Where's the man? He should also be dead." said with a completely straight face. That took me out 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Also right after you said the title "Spaghetti," an ad for fried chicken came on 😂💀

Not a person alive can say a thing about this album if Willie Nelson's on it. 🎉👏🏻

I think Beyonce, being an insider, is still an outsider. I don't have anything to back that up, it's just something I sense about her. Like she may be "worshiped" but she isn't part of the circle who worship her. But she has hit a level to where she can say some things, and no one is going to try and stop her. People just don't quite know what to make of her even after all this time, and all those albums. I wonder if her background includes singing in church, because I feel church vibes and hear church arrangements, which aren't dissimilar from the roots of country. Not country pop, but the roots of storytelling country/folk, such as Woody Guthrie, infused with esrly blues ie Robert Johnson. This isn't a R&B/soul/pop x country crossover, it's more like a collage of the roots of all the music that has made those other styles possible. Like she went time traveling, and brought influences back, then gave those her own spin and update. The music isn't my preferred sound, but I can't deny it is a deep and meaningful and well produced project. To say this is "just Beyonce doing country" is a disservice and misses the point, in my opinion. 👏👏👏🌠

I've not been this gripped by a Beyonce project in a first listen for a while. I absolutely loved it. Will pick my favourites after a few more listens. The first song was very Led Zeppelin to me (hints of the rock album coming up?). Yeah I'm just gonna go enjoy it now

I loved it and cant wait to see what Act III is. Renaissance was great too but every time i put it on im kinda bummed out I'm not in the club, so I can see myself potentially listening to Cowboy Carter more in my everyday life.

Miley and Beyonce collab is what we needed❤ and yes Post malone is from TX, and it looks like he's doing folk/ country music recently

I have so much work today so I cant listen to it all yet, but even from the small bit I've heard it is obvious this album is incredible.

Seated for the Country Queen

So you mention that you don’t see the point of Oh Louisiana and I can understand how you might not see it, but there is a subset of country music regional to Louisiana called Zydeco, she mentions going to the Zydeco in another song, which other wise known as a Fe Do Do is a dance where Zydeco music is played. And while she calls on her Louisiana Creole Heritage a lot in the album I feel Oh Louisiana is a homage to the crooning sound of Zydeco music and her love of the place as her cultural routes. All that to say I think it has a very important part on this record and is one of my favorite interludes and wish I could get an extended version. Dessert Eagle is my least favorite song on album.

in our yeehaw era!!!!!!!!!

when zack and madeline, or anyone says boots, they’re actually referring to Beyoncé cuntree boots, because those are beyond the virgin mary boots

Thank you for being so quick!! Would love to see you fix the track list 😁

Country music gatekeeps so hard they have their own separate award show which is crazy. Beyonce is breaking barriers with this that paves the way for more black artists as well as slighted/excluded country artists such as Kacey Musgraves that have been kind of kicked out because Kacey openly talks about astrology/smoking weed which "isn't allowed" in country music.

Wait?? You didn't show us your reactions to Tyrant, Sweet Honey Bucking and Amen 😢😢

welp that’s relatable content 💀💀 (love your content!)

Everything she's warning Jolene not to do has already when been done 😅😂

i might be reaching... but this is definitely AOTY SO FAR.

just for fun is my favorite track so far-- it's stunning!

i read in the comments of another review that alligator tears could be her talking about her kids and i like that interpretation way more than changing for a man lol

You did this video! 💞 Love it! Thank you very much!

Daughter & no body no crime ARE SISTERS YOU CANNOT CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE

(cowboy) boots the house down….i am so happy i’m alive to see the rise of the beyologist 🙈

I appreciated this perspective because everyone who doesn't follow Beyonce thinks she is so impersonal and unrelatable, but I actually think her albums are deeply personal. Definitely not everyone's cup of tea like renaissance but somehow it's juust perfect for me lmao. I love this movie soundtrack thing she's doing. Also some of the stuff that you think she brought in just for country has been sprinkled here and there for a while now. First time I listened it was purely for digesting, second time I listened I was locked in and the album flew by 😂 I have a few tracks that I'll return to individually (honestly YA YA is one of them) but the interludes and the 40 second songs and what not...I think it's great for my 1+ hour morning commute. Keeps it changing so I don't get bored.

SO GLAD you reacted to this!!!

WOW THAT WAS QUICK

Post Malone was born in Syracuse, NY and his family moved to Dallas when he was 10 🤠

yess ive been waiting for this thank godddd !!

I’m a new beyhive and I can definitely relate I feel like I know barely anything about her and I admittedly don’t feel as attached to her as I do to Ms swift for example but I think that’s just because Taylor’s been my autistic special interest for ages and Beyonce is just there for me I think also because Bey has been around for like what 30 years almost now so it’s gonna be impossible to collect history about her smoothly and I’m very iffy about listening to new music so I so far only know her hit songs, self titled, lemonade, renaissance and CC which all bang so I’m super into her music I just don’t know how I feel about her as a person yet

I’ve not really been a big fan of Beyonce before this album, but after releasing this album my boyfriend has started listening to her and inadvertently so have I. He is a big fan of country music, so today after work I’m getting him the album on vinyl as a present. I think this album has the potential to get country fans to be more open to other music, and people who have not been fans of country to like country.

For me, i definitely think some songs are growers, but there is also songs on the album that i immediately took liking too but i feel like if i play them album again for the second time today and just let it played i will grow to love it more because only played it once since i listen to it when it was released at midnight

Omg never been this early. Thank gosh I opened KZfaq

Thank you, I've been so disorientated, this is a good introduction.

I was a Beyoncé fan long before I was ever a Taylor fan. I'm not feeling this one though as a whole to be honest. But I love love love your reactions.

Would you be interested in reacting to Kacey Musgraves new album deeper well? (If you havent listened already) Really beautiful piece of work.

This is a motherquake masterpiece.

Idk I love this one more after three listens than I did renaissance when it first came out. I just immediately get it and vibe with the experimentation, moreso than with some of the weirder renny songs like I'm That Girl

Is the track "Spaghetti", the most Hip-Hop forward record, a subtle nudge that Beyonce believes that Southern Rap IS Country Music in it's way?

It’s so nice to see Swiftie creators making Beyonce content too

Yeah loved this reaction. ♥️

I think the fact that Beyoncé makes songs that make you really have to comb through makes her a stellar musician/songwriter. Taylor Swift is a decent songwriter but I prefer music that isn’t just about "self" and pushes the destructive boundaries that exist in society. Music that starts real discussions not TikTok or Twitter dissertions and makes you think. Didn’t agree with all your points and felt like you (of course) were a little biased but good video 😊

Boots and cowboy hats that’s this album to me 😂🥾🤠

Suchhhhhh a good album! I love Desert Eagle & Tyrant