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Tiera Kennedy Dishes connected Working With Beyonce connected Cowboy Carter (Exclusive)
Beyoncé is swapping out her cowboy chapeau for a agleam reddish swimsuit.
After all, the Grammy victor paid homage to Pamela Anderson with immoderate of her astir iconic looks successful the Nov. 5 music video for “Bodyguard” from her medium Cowboy Carter.
Donning bouncy blonde curls with wispy bangs, Beyoncé showed disconnected her curves successful a achromatic strapless ensemble, achromatic leather boots and mesh achromatic gloves—just similar the erstwhile Playboy model’s titular quality successful Barb Wire.
But Pamela didn’t conscionable transmission femme fatale with her outfits, truthful it was lone fitting for the Grammy victor to also see immoderate of her softer looks. For instance, she arrived astatine the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards successful a achromatic corset with sparkly leggings and topped disconnected her look with a pinkish fuzzy hat—which Beyoncé recreated.
The video, however, wouldn’t beryllium implicit without Beyoncé’s mentation of the model’s reddish bathing suit from Baywatch, which was cleverly dubbed Beywatch.
The “Texas Hold ‘Em” vocalist besides turned her archetypal ocular for the state medium to punctual voters to formed their ballots for the 2024 U.S. statesmanlike election, which included holding a reddish motion that simply read, “Vote!”
Meanwhile, Pamela couldn’t assistance but gush implicit the tribute, penning connected her Instagram Stories with a kissing emoji, “Don’t telephone maine Bey” (a notation to the line, “Don’t telephone maine babe!” successful Barb Wire).
Beyoncé’s caller video amazed immoderate fans since galore hoped she would merchandise a full-album ocular for Cowboy Carter and Renaissance. However, she stands by her originative determination not to.
“I thought it was important that during a clip wherever each we spot is visuals, that the satellite tin absorption connected the voice,” Beyoncé told GQ successful September. “The euphony is truthful affluent successful past and instrumentation. It takes months to digest, research, and understand. The euphony needed abstraction to respire connected its own. Sometimes, a ocular tin beryllium a distraction from the prime of the dependable and the music.”
As she enactment it, “The euphony is enough.”
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Beyoncé—who shares kids Blue Ivy, 12, and twins Rumi and Sir, 6, with hubby Jay-Z—also noted that fans tin expect releases from her erstwhile inspiration strikes.
“I make astatine my ain pace, connected things that I anticipation volition interaction different people,” she explained. “I absorption connected storytelling, growth, and quality. I’m not focused connected perfectionism. I absorption connected evolution, innovation, and shifting perception.”
Now, support speechmaking for a breakdown of some of Beyoncé’s storytelling and innovation successful Cowboy Carter.
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“Ameriican Requiem”
Within the archetypal azygous connected Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé lays it each retired for her critics, seemingly referencing the backlash she faced aft she performed astatine the CMA Awards successful 2016.
“They utilized to accidental I spoke, ‘Too country’ / And the rejection came, said I wasn't, 'Country 'nough,'” she sings, “Said I wouldn't saddle up, but / If that ain't country, archer me, what is? / Plant my bare feet connected coagulated crushed for years / They don't, don't cognize however hard I had to combat for this.”
At the time, fans noted that the CMA Awards appeared to instrumentality down footage of her astonishment show alongside The Chicks. However, successful a connection to E! News, the enactment shared they took down a promotional clip instead.
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“Dolly P” & “Jolene”
Not lone did the Grammy victor instrumentality Dolly Parton’s deed “Jolene” and marque it her own: “Jolene, I'm a pistillate excessively / Thе games you play are thing caller / So you don't privation nary hеat with me, Jolene,” but she besides recruited the state prima for an interlude that tipped its chapeau astatine different well-known character: Becky with the bully hair.
“Hey miss Honey B, it's Dolly P,” Dolly says, “You cognize that hussy with the bully hairsbreadth you sing about? / Reminded maine of idiosyncratic I knew backmost erstwhile / Except she has flamin' locks of auburn hairsbreadth / Bless her bosom / Just a hairsbreadth of a antithetic colour but it hurts conscionable the same.”
Though Beyoncé made it wide that her instrumentality is much of a stern warning: “But you don't privation this smoke, truthful sprout your changeable with idiosyncratic other (You heard me).”
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“Sweet Honey Buckin”
On this track, the 32-time Grammy victor made enactment of 1 snub that stood retired noticeably during the 2024 Grammys: Her not winning Album of the Year for Renaissance.
In fact, erstwhile her husband Jay-Z took the signifier that night, helium couldn’t assistance but telephone it retired past and there—a infinitesimal that she doesn’t hesitate to highlight.
“A-O-T-Y, I ain't triumph (Let's go) / I ain't stuntin' 'bout them,” she sings, “Take that s--t connected the chin/ Come backmost and fuck up the pen (Yeah).”
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“Protector”
One of her much melodic singles, “Protector” opens up with nary different her girl Rumi asking astir a lullaby.
The singer—who is besides ma to Rumi’s duplicate member Sir and their oldest sibling Blue Ivy—reflects connected her relation arsenic a mom. “Born to beryllium a protector, mm-hmm / Even though I cognize someday you're gonna radiance connected your own.”
“I volition beryllium your projector, mm, mm-hmm / An apricot picked close disconnected a fixed tree,” she notes. “I gave watеr to the ungraded / And present it feeds me, yeah, yеah (Yeah) / And determination you are, shaded underneath it each / I consciousness arrogant of who I americium /Because you request me.”
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“Amen”
Rounding retired her 27-song medium is “Amen,” which leads fans close backmost to the opening declaration of starting anew and making an acquisition each her own.
“Say a supplication for what has been /We'll beryllium the ones to purify our Fathers' sins,” she sings, “American Requiem / Them aged ideas (Yeah) are buried present (Yeah).”
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