Beyoncé, popstar noire du Texas, sort son 1er album country
Beyoncé, la reine mondiale du R'n'B et de la pop, sort son premier album de musique country, inspiré par son Texas natal et mettant en avant l'influence afro-américaine dans ce genre populaire à l'image très conservatrice.
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00:00 Beyoncé, the world queen of R&B and pop, releases her first album of country music,
00:05 inspired by her native Texas and highlighting the African-American influence in this popular genre with a very conservative image.
00:11 The African-American singer, also an actress and businesswoman, is released on Friday night, 4pm GMT, Cowboy Carter, Act 2 of her Renaissance trilogy.
00:21 Born in Houston to a Louisiana mother and an Alabama father, Beyoncé, 42, became, at the end of February,
00:28 even before the release of the album, the first black singer to rank a song at the top of the country's record charts,
00:33 a very popular musical genre in the United States and traditionally associated with white men.
00:38 With the success of the Texas Old M, rhythmed with the sound of banjo and the single "16 Carriage", released during the Super Bowl on February 11,
00:46 black country artists hope to benefit from a spotlight.
00:51 From her first female gospel and R&B group, Destiny's Child, to her 2016 tube "Daddy Lesson", Beyoncé,
00:58 wife of rapper and businessman New Yorker Gigi, Shawn Corey Carter, has highlighted her native South and the influence of country on her music and style.
01:06 White musician-conservator
01:08 This musical genre has always imbued the work of Queen Bey, whose worldwide triumph shakes the traditions of a country rather associated with white and conservative musicians.
01:18 According to music historians, the banjo, an instrument of origin of country, bluegrass or folk music,
01:24 finds its roots in the 17th century Caribbean, then played by black slaves deported from Africa to the Americas.
01:30 Brought to the east of the United States, the banjo was taken up by white populations from the Appalachians in the following century.
01:36 Black country has always existed, but black musicians have been kept out of the genre.
01:43 Singer, author, dancer, producer, actress, Beyoncé is today the most crowned artist in the history of the Grammy Awards,
01:51 award from the American music industry.
01:53 But paradoxically, among her 32 awards, she never won the best album.
01:59 A controversy over the lack of diversity that her husband Gigi has re-fed by criticizing the music industry during the last Grammy Awards on February 5.
02:08 Beyoncé had also been a victim of racism in 2016 after playing her song "Country" by Adi Lesson,
02:14 at the awards of the Association of this Musical Genre.
02:17 "The critics who targeted me when I put my foot in "Country" forced me to go beyond my own limits," she wrote recently on Instagram.
02:25 "This new album is the result of the challenges I have thrown myself and the time I have taken to twist and mix genres for this work."
02:32 In 2019, one of the songs of the year, "Old Town Road" by rapper Lil Nas X, with hip-hop and country accents,
02:39 had been removed from the Billboard country rankings, officially because it did not understand enough elements of this style.
02:45 Which had made controversy.
02:47 Purely white country.
02:49 As soon as a black artist releases a country song, the judgments of value, comments and criticism fly in a squad,
02:56 as was stated in the British newspaper The Guardian by folk singer and blues singer Rhiannon Jiddens,
03:01 present on the song "Texas Old DM".
03:03 She denounced people who try to preserve the nostalgia of a tradition, of a country, purely white that never existed.
03:10 In recent years, black artists have all managed to break through in country, like Mickey Guitton and Britney Spencer.
03:18 Sign of this late recognition, the famous folk and country song by Tracy Chapman released in 1988, "Fast Car",
03:25 received the Best Song of 2023 at the Country Music Awards, but it was after the white singer Luke Combs gave it a go.