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Throw on those boots with the spurs, grab your cowboy hat, and saddle up that horse.

Of course, we're talking about Beyoncé's highly anticipated album, Cowboy Carter.

Beyonce herself has said that Cowboy Carter is more than just a country album.

It's a genre blending pastiche full of heavy Americana signifiers, not to mention legends

like Dolly Parton, and she ties it all together with the

unbridled swagger of Queen B herself. I'm Stephen Thompson and I'm

Aisha Harris. Today we're riding with Beyoncé's new album, Cowboy Carter, on pop-coacher happy hour from NPR.

You know the names of the primary players, Jimmy Carter.

Our country is not strong anymore.

Ronald Reagan.

We have perverted our Constitution.

Gerald Ford.

But how they acted, it's just about the opposite of their popular images.

Those are the seeds of the culture war.

Landslide, how a presidential race led to today's political divide.

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We have perverted our Constitution.

Perverted it with regard to a welfare clause that doesn't exist.

Perverted it with regard to a welfare clause that doesn't exist.

The question was, is he too dangerous is he

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