Beyoncé Makes History With 2025 Grammy Nominations

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.

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).”

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).” 

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.”

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).”