Are there already other black country artists? Yes! But do they have the same star power as beyonce to shake up the industry? No! Bey will definitely be reclaiming country music for black people, same as she just did with house. I really hope she has K. Michelle and other black country singers featured on a song.

I hope Act 3 is more pop/rock/funk like Prince

As a Beyonce fan, I love the fact that Beyonce keeps reinventing herself. I feel like people have a problem with Beyonce because they only see her a pop star. I’m glad Beyonce is ignoring the haters and continues to do her.

Y'all know know B is about to rock the country scene again

She’s THEE ALIEN SUPERSTAR!!!

I'm not country fan but I'm just here to say I can not WAIT for her Rock album 😭

The amount of people in the comments immediately going into saying she can’t do country is INSANEEEE. You summed up everything perfectly and yet still people will find problems with her trying to break the mold

I run a live music entertainment business, personally I have been a karaoke hostess for 11+ years. And I’m a black girl from Texas. And people hear me sing Daddy Lessons and think it’s a Dixie Chicks song 🙃 Sis is constantly raising the bar and getting no recognition, and it just fuels her fire. It makes her great. Those who know, know.

Hope she makes an amapiano and afrobeats for act 3 🔥

She's that girl 👑✨

4 was not a flop it’s a number 1 album

More Black country artists have been getting recognition this last week because of Beyonce. Ive discovered some incredible Black country artists this week.

Yes Beyoncé number one in country music

Beyoncé is the GOAT. She really is the epitome of work ethic, strategy, and talent. She really is working for the long-game/ with the intent of leaving a legacy. She has a genius mind and she is showing us that with every new era. What a queen.

I’m so glad you said is about 4. Its my favourite album of hers! I love every song including bonus songs.

Beyoncé is thee bar!!!! Plain, simple, and factual 💯

Hope K michelle and the other country girls who also spoke on doing country get the same love.

It frustrates me when ppl say Renaissance was house. Objectively speaking the only straight house song was break my soul. Every other song was another iteration of dance. I don’t think the general public know what house even means. To house music lovers it’s such a particular, distinctive sound. Break my soul sounds like nothing else on Renaissance because it’s the only classic house track. Renaissance was very much multifaceted musically which is reflective of how many talented people including Beyoncé ofc contributed to the album

Yes!! Beyonce is doing Blues/Americana which has DEEP African American roots. And she's brought some very special heavy hitters, within the genre, along for the ride to E-DU-MUH-CATE the Folk on the history. ;) We know of Rhiannon Giddens, who I've been following for years, who was playing the banjo on the Texas Holdem track. She's also an INCREDIBLE vocalist and all-around phenom talent. Looking forward to March to see what other significant Black players/pioneers she'll be showcasing.

If Beyoncé be dipping in other genres, mami better give us a reggaeton album! Bey gave us a bit of Spanish on Bday + collaborated with J Balvin pero yo quiero un disco de puro perreo!

I do recall a Black Country artist song going viral on socials about a few years back….

Beyoncé is the truth, the bar, and one of one! She is striving to be her highest version of self. Amazing!!! ❤

“ Beyoncé is the bar!” Iktsr😂🤣🤣🤣🤣💅🏽

The Goat is matchless and cannot be compared to the swiftly girl 👧 child. She is also a Marketing Genius…She wore a cowboy hat and Country Western outfit (seemed out of place) 😮 to the Scammy Awards and then dropped an Album, featuring two sound tracks: 16 Carriages and Texas Hold ‘em-Genius!

Great video!!! Love Beyoncé. No one is on her level.

Beyonce is an artist. She can do country, folk, jazz, etc. Whatever she wants. Now she's doing country. DEAL WITH IT.

She’s releasing the country album on the 50th anniversary of Tina Turner releasing her first country album. Everything she does is with purpose! We are definitely getting rock!!!

"she doesn't relay on a record company to push her" girl... she's literally married with one of the most powerful man in the industry

There are black artists already doing House, Country and Rock. (NEZ, Mickey Guyton, Gary Clark Jr for example) I don’t know why you have to wait for beyonce to do these genres before you start acknowledging the genres and the black artists that do these… Why don’t you guys support these artists instead of always propping up beyonce when she hops on a bandwagon?

Yes Beyoncé Goat 🐐 💃💃

Act 3 betta be her coming back R&B

How can Beyoncé experience racism it’s unimaginable I mean she’s Beyoncé 🥺

I’m looking forward to the rock album, not a big fan of house or country but it’s got me wondering what type of rock it’ll be.

Ppl always hate on Beyoncé n come up with so much conspiracies to demonise and diminish her accomplishments more than any artist I know. I respect her for always pushing boundaries n representing through her music. To me she’s the most mainstream alt artist lol

I don’t care much for today’s country music but, I’m looking forward to this album ‘cause it is Beyoncé and I like HER as an artist. I’m from the era where Shania Twain, Carrie Underwood, Rascal Flatts…even OG Taylor Swift, were doing country pop so looks like country is getting shaped up again!

How is she reclaiming House music when it’s already dominated by black artists and was already big before Act i dropped? How is she reclaiming country when we have plenty of black artists who are big in country? This is just a cash grab, her fans will jump on the bandwagon and won’t care about the genre afterwards when she moves on to something else.

Yes! New video alert!

Beyonce is the BAR!!!! Yesssssss!!!!!

Crazy how RACISM continues to affect everything. 🙄 IM OVERRRRRR IT. I’m so glad artist like Beyoncé and Rihanna continue to prove these labels wrong.

Y’all can’t tell me that she doesn’t listen to Martina McBride. What I loved about “Lemonade” is the fact that she used so many genres like when she had that rock song bruh she did her thing.

I think it’s almost surely rock but i personally want to be jazz.

Even tho i think she has a strange side to her no doubt shes one of the best singers

We need a Beyoncé slam metal album

💯💯💯

Act 1 was house act 2 is country in calling it act 3 is gonna be rap or rock

She’s not reclaiming anything. I don’t know where that narrative came from but it’s false. A black country group was literally nominated for best new artist at this year’s Grammys. We really need to do better research and pay respect to those that are currently doing it.

The racism is so strong in those tweets.

I don understand the logic behind faking an origin.for how long will this "work out"?

Beyoncé is a corporation. I’m an operations manager at a major corporation. They ALWAYS have to reinvent.

She stays stealing other people’s concepts and ideas and never gives credit. Y’all give her too much credit. She lies about songs she’s “written”

Jack of all trades, master of none= Beyonce

Okay, I can't speak on the history of country musicians (I don't listen to that genre, nor am I educated in it), but I have to disagree on the "reclaiming rock" side of things. Bey might have done great with "Don't Hurt Yourself," but artists like Jimi Hendrix, Prince, and Chuck Berry have been legends for decades.

Reclaiming Black music? Lol. Yall do the most over Beyonce. Yall do know that there are Black country and rock singers right? Beyonce is not reclaiming anything.

4 is her best album, idc

THE artist? I hope she wears that badge well. The 1st global famous musician who had that badge adorned upon them was none other than Prince. Immediately after his simultaneous Grammy & Academy Award wins for Purple Rain (unprecedented in the history of modern music), what does he do to prove that he would not be boxed into a one dimensional musician? He puts out Around the World in a Day. An album that many compared to what the Beatles did with Rubber Soul, Revolver and then Dr. Peppers' Lonely Hearts Club Band. In both instances- Prince and the Beatles did a sudden, calculated huge disruptive shift in the direction they were going. With Prince- industry "experts" had announced that he was finished. Prince: "Yeah awards are cool, but I did not get into this industry to win an award. I got into it to do it my way, say what I wanted to say, play music the way I wanted too". And so he did, he lost some fans stuck back in that Purple era, but continued to pick up more and more with every different genre he ventured into. Be it r&b, soul, pop, new age, metal, rock, folk, funk, Rap and so much more, in his own way Prince got into all of that! Some were wondering if Prince was trying to have his music played on virtually every different genre radio stations out there! He did his way. Beyonce is doing it her way. "To their credit, the wisest thing Warner Bros did (for Prince) was to get out of his way"- Frank Zappa Are you listening Columbia Records? Stay out of Bey's way, and let her do her thing. What one insider said about Fiona Apple & Prince most cetainly apploes to Beyonce, she is "one of those mo****f***in' True Artists!"

Great video. I will say I don’t have a problem with Beyoncé reinventing herself. Artists do that from time to time. Tina Turner went from doing R&B to becoming the Rock and Roll 🤘🏾 Queen so I’ve seen this before. The slight issue I have with Beyonce’s albums as of late is she seems to be all over the place. She also seems to be chasing the album of the year Grammy. While there’s nothing wrong with wanting the award I find it interesting she’s won more Grammys than anyone and still doesn’t feel complete. Which is why quality over quantity will always reign supreme. As BP we feel entitled to other cultures Blacks create because we share the same race and we need to visit that. House music is Midwest Black culture. True artists of this culture like Kid sister for example was overlooked. Country was created by BP in Tennessee. I think if you’re going to go this route at least take time to learn about a culture that’s not yours. There’s plenty of people who did country (ex. Nelly 20 years ago remember his first album) and now you all are talking about Beyoncé taking country back? House and country been here and been Black. We all don’t have the same culture and that’s okay but take time to learn about the culture of what you’re doing instead of feeling entitled to it because we’re Black. Irish and Italians are both white but understand this. We don’t and that’s a problem.

Just stop with all this claiming stuff beyonce not all that forreal yall are twicking

*call me crazy...but if being BORN & RAISED in flippin' TEXAS doesn't make you country...then WHAT DOES?!?* 🐂🤠🤷🏽

Beyonce was born in Texas....wasn't she??

There are some really good country songs, hers was not one of them!!

Stop making everything about black and white she’s just making music 😕

Hiw the heck did Beyonce reclaim House Music. Somerhing has to be removed and gone in oder to be reclaimed. And house music is still has majoraly been dominant by Black Americans, and was never mainstream rather widely unpopular across the world outside a specific demographic. Then on top of it Beyoncé still couldn't make it mainstream. Her country singles suck. Sure Black Americans were innovators of an offshoot Folk genre, Country music. But how is Beyonce reclaiming elements that made up country music, that predated its innovation. So again Country music isn't soley Black Americans to even claim. The fact Country music is an innovation highlights that music is only progressive, and non ones original. All that matters is who sounds the best. The sound of what music is is ever changing, such as country music, which alone is no longer familiar to how country music initially sounded. But also there's many different sub genres that started further distinguishing the sound from orginal Country music.

Early!! 😊also stream my music boo I got a song called “HIM”

She could do a better job with country. She does have a good voice but I didn’t get country vibes at all from her songs. It just sounds like she’s trying to reinvent herself for a while and then go back to pop music after. Her new songs sound pop. Country music is more than just wearing a cowboy hat and talk about horses. She might be from Texas but she’s not representing the culture.

How are you reclaiming genres while running around in a white girl aesthetic? Lmao

Country music is not black music. I swear it derives from Irish music definitely not black

Make videos for anything. Dumb topics. KZfaq is terrible.

Listen, it’s not that Beyoncé can’t do country because she can she just does not sound right doing it. She doesn’t sound authentic like an artist such as K. Michelle for instance Beyoncé sounds like an R&B pop artist transitioning into country. It sounds like a money grab it sounds like I’m only doing this because I want that album of the year Grammy and R&B hip-hop none of those genres are charting right now you know where the money is at country it’s a money move money grab nothing is authentic about what Beyoncé is doing. It’s not about reinventing anything it’s about greed and being all over the charts.