WEBVTT - Cowboy Brown Ambition 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:20.560 Hey, hey, hey, we're back. We're black Brown ambition, ambious, ambition, ambition, ambition. 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:29.000 Hey man, hey man is wearing Black Owned lip lippy 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:31.920 and this is like her color thank. 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:34.519 You and the Black Owned. Uh what do you call 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:37.120 this pullover? This is that brand you told me about ou. 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:42.680 Oh yeah, it's really because the red red is giving honeys. 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:44.400 Girls like the name of the lippy. 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:47.400 Oh yeah, so yeah, Tiffany is like, oh yeah, I 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:51.640 know the odor of that lippy. So my favorite activity 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:54.960 is shopping the end caps at Target, so like the 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:57.480 end of the aisles and I always find good stuff. 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:59.639 So this was like a Black History Month special lip 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:06.240 kit had a lip pencil and a liquid bat lip 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.440 gloss or whatever lipstick and the color is rich Anti 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:15.319 rich as it's good. And then the liner it's called 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:17.640 straight No Chaser. 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:20.880 So if you're not familiar lit the lit the lip 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:26.120 bar is by Melissa Butler and she was actually on 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.400 Shark Tank and they said, girl, you tried it, we 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.119 don't want it, and she said, no, you tried it. 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:33.000 And now she's like one of the I think she's 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:37.200 like the biggest Black Owned makeup line inside Target. She 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.240 actually has two lines she's got the lip bar. I 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.280 mean it's Thrive or something like that. Thread. Yes, it's 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:44.720 like this blue line thing that she has. But Melissa 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:48.160 is amazing. She's been slaying I remember distinctly, like I 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.920 think it's the pandemic. She was having a hard time 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:52.800 because you know, people weren't going outside and trying to 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:53.240 look cute. 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:55.600 Well, took off that. 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:59.080 She more than rebounded and bounced all the way back. 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:02.320 And yeah, I her colors are the best one. They last. 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.200 Yeah, colors are drinking you see all this? 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:09.240 Yes, right, so Mandy has a water bottle that she's 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:10.919 drinking out. I really have to say, like the colors, 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.320 like when I put them on, like whenever, I would 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:15.120 say eighty percent at a time, when I'm on TV 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.200 or whatever, I'm wearing her color because my makeup bars 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:19.799 can't always come with me and they will last the 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.720 whole time. Yeah. So she actually has a place in 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.080 Detroit which I've been to, which is really cute. But 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:29.560 she's sold in targeted and I think CVS, CBS. She's 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:33.000 just swaying. She's just like a sassy, beautiful black woman 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.560 that is like what straight out of Detroit. So try 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.480 if you want to so shout out a listen. 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:42.760 Oh that's awesome. Well did you have a good B 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.920 Day weekend? I think there might have been another holiday 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:50.440 this weekend, but it was it was a national holiday. 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:54.080 Like I actually wished people a happy b Day all 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:57.440 day I had. And this is I have such a 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.160 heartbreaking story. I feel like every time her everyone. Once 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.239 in a while, I give you like a Mandy adventure 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.279 Adventures of Mandy, where like it is just a clusterfuck 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:09.040 and the everything goes wrong. And if you're if you 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.440 have kids at home, with little kids, you know, the 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:15.880 morning routine of getting out the door fed, everything packed up, 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.680 you know things, get the bottles for the baby, and 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:20.800 get the lunch, and don't forget the water bottle, not 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.480 that water bottle, the new water bottle, not that Yoda one, 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:27.600 the Yoda one that's metal, not plastic water bottle. Anyway, 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:30.840 and it's every day is different. Today we got there 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.720 like thirty minutes late, you know whatever. It's after spring break. 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:37.280 But on Friday, I booked myself a ninety minute deep 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.160 tissue massage in a ninety minute facial because the skin 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:44.120 has been just looking haggard. And I was so excited 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:48.000 plus the new Cowboy Carter album jopped, and I made 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.600 sure I booked the nice spot that's like a little 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:52.400 like I don't know, like a thirty minute drive away, 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:54.240 and I thought, ooh, I'll listen to one half on 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.320 the way there, because you know the album time is 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.240 like one minute, one hour and seventeen minutes. Yes, I 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.320 had to be sure I could squeeze it in. And 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:02.920 then on the way back I listened and maybe I 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:04.760 listened to it during I don't know. I was gonna 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:06.720 vibe and it was going to be such an amazing day. 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.360 Drop off the baby drop off. Rio walk up to 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.040 the door and they were like, oh, ma'am, is he 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.200 here for no, there's no school today. It's good Friday 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:20.080 and we're in a Catholic church and it's closed, so 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:24.520 you could take your adorable son and good luck too. Yeah, 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:30.120 And I was devastated, and Rio and sweet Rio, He's like, Mommy, 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.720 don't be sad. I go to your massage. I could go, 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.240 And I'm like, you could if it was like a 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.240 thirty minute massage, but I can't. It was going to 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.680 be a three hour, you know, minimum experience. I can't. 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:42.880 There's not enough YouTube in the world to keep him. 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.320 And I also didn't want that to be his day, 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:48.640 just like ugh, and then I wouldn't be able to 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:52.960 really relax. So the whole day was fudged, but we 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:56.039 ended up going It was every every hour, so I 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.720 just wanted to cry. Also, I was out like three 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:02.599 hundred dollars because yeah, yeah, because I canceled like forty 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.800 five minutes before and there. It's just what a disaster. 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.040 I keep getting the emails like, how would you rate 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.440 our services? I'm like, the services I did not get, 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:14.960 but that I paid for it's great. But anyway, so 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.400 and I was so frustrated because I didn't get to 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.560 really listen to Beyonce the new album Cowboy Carter until 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.880 the next morning. But it has been because I wanted 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:28.039 to be alone, like in peace, you know, and rio 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.839 is just anyway. But I finally did and I'd be 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:33.640 listening to it non stop. It's been the soundtrack to 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:38.000 my weekend and I yeah, whatever, there was another holiday 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:42.039 this weekend, but it was fantastic. We all got this 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:48.440 in his Easter basket. I'm holding my book. Yeah, he's 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:50.120 going to realize that Easter Buddy is not real if 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:51.320 I keep doing this kind of stuff. 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:54.800 First of all, I remember when I took I took 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.640 so for Carol's, my sister, her fortieth birthday. I was 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.840 doing a was going to a conference in Puerto Rico. 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.240 I said, come and this will be like your birthday presents. 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:07.200 So she came and Ameliar, her daughter, whose birthday was 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:12.240 on Friday, Beyonce Day day. She lost her tooth when 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.760 we were away, and my sister Tracy was watching them, 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.160 and she was like, what are we gonna do? Auntie 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:24.240 Chichi that's Tracy's nickname. The tooth fairy is in Puerto Rico. 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:25.360 Please give me that. 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.240 Yeah, I mean real, really, he's like, ooh, a basket 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.240 full of stuff. I like this, but he didn't ask 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.080 too many questions. But yeah, I don't. 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.960 Know how long had to put the confused her. Well, 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:38.480 she woke up to Monday. She was like wait a minute, 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:42.760 wa a minute. Like Puerto Rico. She was like, girl'll 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:44.320 try somebody else. Just give me my money. Just you 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:44.919 gotta just. 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:48.400 Put heyb a fan. We're gonna take a quick break 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:49.440 and we'll be right back. 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.240 So let's talk about some of our face. I know 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:57.280 you you can't pick your favorite and I don't even 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.760 have it. Oh, so there's some ones that like instantly, 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.320 you know, sometimes because there's so many songs, it's like, 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:04.760 what is it twenty seven song? How many songs? 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:07.839 Well, the thing is twenty seven tracks, not songs. Yeah, 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.720 because there's the interludes with like Willie Nelson and Dolly 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:16.760 Parks Carton and Linda Martel. Yeah, so I feel like 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:18.480 it totally be twenty songs. 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.000 Yeah, and do those people in there, because she said, 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.240 try somebody else your greats think I'm great. 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.920 You know, she's exactly. Yeah, she's like the king and 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.880 Queen of country. I mean, Willie and Dolly. 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.480 I mean, yeah, you all you know you love you 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.360 will you know the great think I'm great? You know. 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:37.800 The way she did that said the level of patty 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:38.600 is just. 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.360 The level of like and you know what, it's that 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:47.119 classic like in order to do in order to be received, well, 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.800 you have to you can't. There's no margin for error 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:53.200 as a black woman, like you have to get the 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.120 white the great white co sign, you know what I mean. 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.400 Although I don't think it was as trife like as 0:07:58.440 --> 0:07:59.960 I think she really did it from a place of like, 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.760 I respect these icons and there was oh but this 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:05.880 was a black and this is a Beyonce album. I 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:07.240 really get it when she said, this is not a 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.000 country album, It's a Beyonce album. And I'm just so grateful. 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.920 I'm so grateful to be living in the time of Beyonce. 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.680 I feel like I feel like everybody who came up 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:17.640 in the eighties, like in their twenties and really got 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:19.520 to be there for the Michael era, you know what 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.480 I mean, the Michael Jackson era and the Prince era. 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:25.800 And people keep saying that, oh, she's our generations, Michael 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.360 and Prince and all that, and I do and Tina Turner, 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:32.400 which is, yes, totally fair, but we are so fortunate 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.360 because she is so healthy that I don't think she's 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.480 gonna die, like at a very young age, Like she's 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.600 not going to ode. And I'm just like, in the 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:44.360 body of work, we all know, like there were the 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.400 classic albums from these artists and they were huge and 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.480 they were the soundtrack of a generation. But I feel 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.720 like she's the soundtrack of like two generations now because 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:57.719 she still keeps putting out incredible bodies of work, like. 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:04.800 ABC Easier Jackson. This is true, you know, Michael's right, 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.040 Michael's like, hola, hold on, I'm gonna let you cook. 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.880 But okay, in his last couple of albums like where 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:10.719 are they giving. 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.320 For a no no no no, but think about you 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.920 have to think from from ABC all the way too 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:17.880 bad like that, you know, and that's when he was 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:19.280 like fully grown but you I mean, he gave you 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.679 thriller which had like every single one was the number one, 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.360 you know. So I'm not saying obviously Beyonce is amazing, 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.360 But what I am saying is that like, yes, that 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.000 like and similar to Beyonce, because one day we'll be 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.280 looking back and being like Wall, whoa Wall. Don't forget 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.960 Danky's child, right, she was a child. She so we 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.160 got to see her. You know, we haven't even seen her. 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:39.400 I don't think at her peak. But okay, so so 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:41.920 far the three songs that make me say yes, obviously 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.760 we have to stand for Jolene. Okay, Joline. First of all, 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:47.840 what I love about Joelne is that she said play 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:49.920 with somebody else, because if you listen to the Dolly 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:54.160 Parton version, nothing like Dolly Parton's version, very beautiful obviously, 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:57.199 but in that version, like Dolly Parton is saying, please 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:02.720 don't steal my man, and Beyonce said, girl, pick somebody 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:04.600 off before. I think, coming from a space of like, 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:08.000 you know, for your own good, you know, like don't 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.880 waste your time. She said, don't don't come from my 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:13.960 man because we're not we're not pleading, we're not asking. 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.240 It's happening like do you want to I'm still a 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:19.160 creole from Louisiana. Okay, So she said, yeah, you don't 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:20.959 want you don't want none of this, so that I 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:24.360 loved the intonation. But plus, Joline is just like iconic, 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:30.240 like Dollie obviously iconic. And then also to Miley. Miley 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.840 Cyrus did a version which was also really beautiful. But 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:34.839 Miley Cyrus's version was very like the. 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:36.480 Same lyricism to the original. 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.000 You know, you know, but but no, Beyonce said, oh no, 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.719 we're actually not asking. You could just see her bat 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.160 in hand, like, yeah, did you hear what I said? Jolie, 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:44.920 come here if you want. 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:48.800 Julie, Julie. I love the beginning where it's like like 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:56.280 the echoes Jolie, and not only that, but the sequel 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.240 to Joline Daughter right after that, like I don't know 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.360 if you listen to that enough. But I did not 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.720 run to Joline because I figured it would just be 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.040 a remake. And then I heard Blackbird, which is beautiful, 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.600 but I was like ready for the original music. So 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:10.080 but then when I went to I'm like, oh, it 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:11.360 is an original Joline. 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:12.000 Yeah. 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.440 And then the Daughter after that the sequel where like 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.880 she goes and Jolene tries it and then we find 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:20.320 out what happens to her and daughter and okay, but 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:20.880 keep going. 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.480 So you love Joline, no, no, And so my favorite, 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:28.240 hands down is Blackbird. Okay singing then the Dead, I'm not, Well, 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.960 here's the thing. I love that song prior, but I 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.679 take these Broken Wings and learned the fly. First of all, 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:37.080 it's really mournful and beautiful, but then I learned the history. 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:38.160 I just always liked that song. 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:39.160 I never knew this either. 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:42.360 Yes, like so for those who don't know the history. 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.760 So it was written by palmerccartney of the Beatles, and 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.160 he wrote it wrote it during the sixties when all 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.959 the racial unheaval was at It's like, I mean, we've 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.360 had our peaks since then, but it was really like 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.360 at a at a fever pitch you know, he was 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.840 watching you know, people being hosed down, people being attacked 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.600 by dogs. You know, like when everything was publicized, not 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.880 publicized on everything was on TV, you got to really 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:08.160 see what it looked like to be black fighting for 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:12.480 your right, you know, rights in America. And so as 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:16.680 a musician, like so many musicians, he wanted to express 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:19.520 how he was feeling, but also to do something in 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.600 solidarity with and so he said, I'm going to write 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.640 this song and he called it black Bird. Black obviously 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:31.359 in in tribute to black people, but bird was a 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.640 it was like just like a slang for what they 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:38.400 call girls in Europe and England or whatever, and so 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.280 not not a the derogatory slang, but just like you know, 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:43.440 that's like you know how like because when we say 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:45.520 bird now it means like I. 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:50.120 Mean, you're like, yeah, it's because it doesn't in her song, 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:51.520 which seemed like yes. 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.360 But you know, but is using it the way we 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.240 use it like modern you know, because if you're a 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:59.240 bird now that means basically the word bird now comes 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:03.040 from the chickenhead, like your chickenhead, like you're but back 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:04.440 then bird was just like a girl. 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:04.760 Yeah. 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.000 So anyway, so Blackbird because he wouldn't have used the 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:08.079 word bird. It was disrespectful. 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:09.920 It wasn't and it was supposed to beel like a 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:14.360 quiet protest or like a solidarity, which is so beautiful. 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:18.920 So singing it but not really knowing it was a yes, and. 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:20.840 So I just love that. Like so like the first 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.000 couple of lines, blackbird singing in the dead of night, 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.079 take these broken wings and learn to fly. All your life, 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.839 you were only waiting for this moment to arise. Blackbirds 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.160 singing in the dead of night, Take these sunken nies 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.480 and learn to see all your life. You were only 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:38.160 waiting for this moment to be free, or this moment 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:40.560 to be And so it's just so beautiful. It's just 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.840 like and so Beyonce stayed very close to like, you know, 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.960 the underlying like melody. And what I love is that 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.160 she had four other black country singers on this record 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:54.720 with her and they just it's just it's beautiful, it's haunting, 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.360 it's beautiful. It's hands down, I probably listened to That's 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:01.080 already fifty times already. It's my favorites thus far on 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.760 the album, just because when I listened to it, actually 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.280 like it tears me up knowing that like the origin 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.199 and who she's really singing it for, so it's more 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.160 than just the song, it's like the meaning behind us. 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:13.720 So that is hands down right now my favorite, just 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.120 because of the meaning behind it, and it also it's 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:17.800 just beautifully. 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.200 Sund And you know, that's another one where I was like, 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:21.560 I listened to the first verse and I'm like, oh, 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:26.440 that's pretty, pretty, pretty skip because I didn't hear the 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.840 other women because they have their own verses. Just I 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.240 was like, so eager to get to the new stuff anyway, 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.360 but yes, going back, it is an exquisite song, and 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:39.440 to hear those other voices, what a beautiful way. She's 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:41.960 just like always chef's kiss, like let me actually get 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:45.480 some black. It's like her nod to the up and 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.160 comers who are who are who were here doing the 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:51.480 thing before Beyonce, you know, because she could overshadow by 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.600 just she is the sun, right so she could outshine 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:56.720 a lot, but she doesn't choose to. She's like, let 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.520 me take my son and shine on y'all, which I 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.040 think is such an element of her power and why 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:02.880 she's so amazing. 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.200 But also to like the fact that she chose that song, 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:07.360 like especially in the time. 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.240 Like now yeah she got it's. 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:13.640 Still yeah, it's still a protest song, like no, you know, 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:19.440 just yes exactly. So so what about you? So what 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:21.080 is another what's one that made you say, wait a minute, 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:21.600 wait a minute. 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:29.440 Okay, So American Requiem the first track, girl, this, I 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:31.680 just this is not what you guys. You didn't come 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:33.640 to be a fam You didn't come to brand ambition 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.880 for a Beyonce like to go through every single track 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:37.560 you can listen to. 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:39.520 We're not gonna do every single track, but we gotta give. 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.120 Say I have I could have a master's degree in 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:47.480 her music, and like American Requiem is like me too exquisite. 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:52.040 So layered the lyrics, the name of the song requiem, 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.880 you know, something that you would perform and sing at 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:59.440 a burial, a ceremonial sort of song, and the fact 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:02.360 that it's a can requiem and some of the lyrics 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.280 like the big ideas are buried here, and just the 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:09.240 haunting like quality of her voice and the way that 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.480 she uses her instrument in so many different ways is 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:16.320 just so exquisite. And to have that be the entry 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.840 way she's saying so much she's sang so much with 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.920 that song. It's like it's it's laying the foundation for 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.360 the rest of the record, like can you hear me? 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:27.200 Will you stand with me? It's time to face the wind, 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.920 It's time to stop playing pretend like it's time to 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:38.960 like embrace the good. And also for those who like 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:42.240 she actually answers people who did not want her to 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:44.920 go into country, who said when she went on the 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.800 Cmas with the Chicks back when she had Daddy lessens out, 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.000 said like, what are you doing here? What are you doing? 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:54.360 And why are you here? Like this, You're not you're 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:57.680 a pop artist, your R and B. You're not You're urban, 0:16:57.720 --> 0:16:59.680 you're not country. And she's like, well, let me remind 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:03.360 you who I am, Like let me educate y'all. And 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:07.080 where I come from. I love that, like Louisiana, Alabama, 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.800 like the creole. Yes, why didn't you say the daughter 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.320 of a moonshiner, granddaughter of a moonshe They. 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:13.280 Said that girl the way. 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.840 She want way back in the history of books. 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.560 That part when she opens with that part and the 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.760 lines after that, it's like that of a moonshiner. She 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.840 talks about Georgia, but she said something else. They I 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.680 have to look it up because I was hollowing when 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:31.320 I tell you I was. I took like a two 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.399 hour walk just so I can listen. Yeah, I mean, I 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.040 know we were in the street like I'm gonna need 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.399 you to I was like girl by somebody else, but 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:38.880 I live in a black neighborhood. 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:42.919 So they weren't. Yes anyway, Oh so good. And then 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:46.080 the end of the album Amen, like it's just she 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:48.399 and it sounds just it really gave me and I 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:50.680 read later, I read the press release from Parkwood, which 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:52.560 I don't think they've really given a press release about 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:55.159 an album where Beyonce is being interviewed and actually shares 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.160 the making of the album, like some of the back 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.760 behind the scenes. But she was inspired by all these 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:04.119 old Western films and the way the album is like 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:06.480 it starts and ends with that same sound. It very 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:09.359 much was giving. Like if you watch any old films 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:12.800 from the fifties, like even Bambi, like my son Loves Bambi, 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:16.639 they start with this big, like like very like orchestral 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:18.960 sort of opening and it's sort of mirrors at the end, 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.840 and it just the whole thing was like very seepy, 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:26.720 a toned and like just stunning. So I love that song. 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:32.360 I love there's too many. I love Levi's jeans. I 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:36.040 love them. Yeah, yeah alone it's so sixties. 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:38.600 You know. I've heard of him, you know, but I 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:39.640 never really got to his music. 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.520 Said he's saying, what did he sing at the super Bowl? 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.800 Was it America the beautiful? Or was it the whole beautiful? 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:47.760 Was it the band or I don't know. He's saying 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:48.360 something he does. 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:52.760 Yeah, but Levi's I say, let me other postings to 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:53.359 post support. 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:58.440 But like, uh, river Dance, which I love that Beyonce 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.720 is still she's so exquisite, so but she can she 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.320 does ratchet like no one else, and she does sexy 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:08.560 like I mean, I feel like river Dance and even 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:10.720 Levi's a little bit. Those were like the drunken loves 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:13.400 it really and I even felt like some of these 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.119 the sounds that she used, a way that she sang 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:21.080 was very like reminiscent of her Lemonade era and just 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:24.040 giving us like so many different genres. I mean, I 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:26.120 feel like there was rock, of course, there was country, 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:29.240 but there was still soul, there were still RB and B, 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:35.440 there was still she gave us Opera and daughter yeah. 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:39.320 Yeah, the Opera Girls was going up. Apparently the aria 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:43.520 that she sung in that song is from a book 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:46.679 of like arias that if you are going to learn opera, 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.000 your opera singer, your opera teacher is going to give 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:51.680 you this like top twenty five book of books of aria, 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:53.879 and that is the aria that almost everyone starts with. 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:56.879 And I forget the meaning behind that aria, but like 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:59.920 the Opera Girls were gagging, honey, they were all over 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:02.000 the ticks and the talks and the id giving us 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:04.399