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The Recording Academy laid their cards down—and gave Beyoncé her flowers.
After all, her multifaceted state medium Cowboy Carter not lone snagged 11 2025 Grammy nominations, including nods for Record of the Year and Song of the Year, but she besides earned her 5th information for Album of the Year—which makes her the astir nominated creator successful Grammy past with a expansive full of 99 nods. (She was antecedently tied with husband Jay-Z ).
For each the nominations, head connected implicit here.
The "Bodyguard" singer's latest accomplishment comes months aft her hubby called retired the Recording Academy astatine the 2024 Grammys for snubbing his wife successful the aforementioned category. (Despite her awesome 32 wide wins, she has yet to triumph Album of the Year.)
"We privation y'all to get it right—at slightest get it adjacent to right," helium noted connected signifier while accepting the Dr. Dre Global Award. "Obviously it's subjective, due to the fact that it's euphony and it's opinion-based. But immoderate things, you know, I don't privation to embarrass this young lady—but she has much Grammys than everyone and ne'er won Album of the Year."
But that wasn't the lone flimsy that Beyoncé, 43, faced this year, arsenic the "Texas Hold 'Em" creator was besides notably unopen retired from the 2024 CMA Awards nominations, contempt Cowboy Carter spending weeks connected Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart.
However, the Houston autochthonal is nary alien to exclusion. In fact, her state medium was created ironically aft an experience several years agone successful which she "did not consciousness welcomed," adding that it was "very clear" she wasn't.
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"But, due to the fact that of that experience," she wrote successful a March 19 Instagram post. "I did a deeper dive into the past of Country euphony and studied our affluent philharmonic archive. It feels bully to spot however euphony tin unite truthful galore radical astir the world, portion besides amplifying the voices of immoderate of the radical who person dedicated truthful overmuch of their lives educating connected our philharmonic history."
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But let's beryllium clear, arsenic Beyoncé noted, her medium isn't needfully meant to beryllium categorized.
"This ain't a Country album," she added. "This is simply a 'Beyoncé' album. This is enactment ii COWBOY CARTER, and I americium arrogant to stock it with y'all!"
Read connected for immoderate of the standout tracks from her record.
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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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