'Act ll: Cowboy Carter' review: Beyoncé's 'country' epic defies categorisation

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'Act ll: Cowboy Carter' review: Beyoncé's 'country' epic defies categorisation
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Beyonce has always been country. Now she's firmly entered her yeehaw era with 'Cowboy Carter', the second act of her Renaissance project. — Photo: AFPIn some ways, it is a mission statement for the epic 78-minute, 27-track release – or at the very least, functions like a film's title card to introduce yet another blockbuster album.

If the album, five years in the making, was inspired by the racist backlash she faced after performing at the 2016 CMAs with The Chicks, as many fans have theorised, she’s eclipsed it and then some. Tell Beyoncé she isn’t welcomed in your space; she’ll carve out a bigger one.. It was originally written by Paul McCartney about desegregation in American schools with particular emphasis on the Little Rock Nine, the first group of Black students to desegregate an Arkansas high school in 1957.

Perhaps Beyoncé’s clearest predecessor on this album is Linda Martell, the first Black woman to play the Grand Ole Opry. Martell’s 1970 landmark record"Genres are a funny little concept, aren’t they?" she says, laughing."In theory, they have a simple definition that’s easy to understand. But in practice, well, some may feel confined.

The magic here, of course, is Beyoncé’s mastery of art and message. And at the centre of everything is her larger-than-life performance – serious and jubilant, like when she plays her nails as percussion, an ode to Parton doing the same on, historical course-correcting and evolution go down with honey. Lessons are learned on the dance floor, on the radio, at the imagined honky-tonk, in headphones.

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