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Ringer Dish

Beyoncé's Dissertation on Americana: A Review of 'Cowboy Carter'

Ringer Dish

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.31.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

IT IS HERE! And so are Chelsea Stark-Jones and Jodi Walker on this special 'Ringer Dish' episode to discuss the album that has completely broken the internet and the boundaries of music, genre, and our understanding of what country music is: Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter.’ The ladies do a deep dive into the album, discussing some think pieces about the project and multiple sectors of it, including favorite collaborations (9:39), songs that made them cry (27:46), best bops (33:28), their quintessential country song (50:27), and much more! Hosts: Chelsea Stark-Jones and Jodi Walker Producer: Jade Whaley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Nathan Hubbard, Spring has sprung, the birds are chirping, and the pop girls are popgirling.

0:06.0

Oh, and you know what that means, Nora Princeiotti.

0:09.0

Every single album is back.

0:11.0

This spring is packed with new releases from some of the biggest pop stars in the world,

0:15.2

including our girl Taylor Swift, and we'll be covering it all.

0:18.8

We'll of course break down every angle on the Tortured Poets Department,

0:22.3

and we'll also cover new music

0:23.8

from Beyoncée duelipa Maggie Rogers Casey Musgraves and Ariana Grande.

0:28.9

It's pop girl spring on every single album. New episodes starting March 28th on Spotify

0:34.3

Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. You're all. Welcome to a Ringer dish special episode here on the Ringer Network. I am Chelsea Stark Jones, joined by the lovely Jody Walker. Jody, we are going to do something that both feels monumental but also a little bit overwhelming and really break down

1:04.9

cowboy Carter and the most honest way we know how.

1:08.9

Which is an absolute rave, let's be honest.

1:12.2

I'm hesitant to even use the word breakdown because we have spoken about this offline.

1:19.4

We are both huge and immediate fans of this album.

1:25.0

So let's be clear from the jump that this is not exactly a critique

1:30.0

or even

1:34.0

lending a critical eye to Cowboy Carter, if that's even possible,

1:35.0

as much as a chat about how much we've enjoyed this album

1:40.0

and also how it has met all of our, frankly for me at least, very high expectations of what Beyonce's country album, or as she might say it, Beyonce's Beyonce album, what we wanted from that.

1:57.3

For me, it's been everything and more.

1:59.5

Yeah, I have to agree.

2:00.8

I'm trying to remember Pre-Cowboy Carter what I thought the album was going to be and yeah I did

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