It’s painful to even kind their names in the identical sentence, however “Wealthy Males North of Richmond” singer Oliver Anthony has some ideas on the landmark Beyoncé album, COWBOY CARTER. These ideas are uninspired, baseless, and boring, however we’re going to share them nonetheless.
In a prolonged video titled “What I’ve Discovered from the Music Trade So Far…,” the singer shared his perspective on methods in Nashville, live performance ticket costs, and Beyoncé’s 2024 nation LP. “It represents how degenerative our society has grow to be {that a} music like a Beyoncé model of ‘Jolene’ can come out and anyone really take heed to it and suppose it’s not simply full trash,” he mentioned, selecting to disregard the truth that Dolly Parton herself greater than gave her blessing for COWBOY CARTER. Notably, Parton herself appeared on observe 23, “TYRANT.”
Even so, Anthony — who lately mentioned that he was stepping away from the music trade to concentrate on ministry work — has deemed his essential experience stronger than that of somebody who collaborated with the likes of Parton, Linda Martell, or Willie Nelson on their nation album. “One of many guys I labored with, he wished me to make some silly fucking publish about Beyoncé’s nation album, about the way it was good, though it was full trash,” he says within the video. “It makes me simply need to throw up… it’s simply whole cringe.” In contrast to his music, “Cowboys and Sunsets,” which might clearly by no means be deemed cringe?
Anthony provided a halfhearted rationalization for the attitude, revealing that this happened when one of many music trade of us in his camp was brainstorming “tips on how to make him cool.” The suggestion was to publish about COWBOY CARTER, which he swiftly rejected.
However hey, everybody is aware of one of the simplest ways to be deemed cool is to as a substitute get on the web to disparage the most-awarded particular person in Grammys historical past, who has additionally spent essentially the most weeks at No. 1 this decade, and is supported by one of the crucial lively fanbases on the planet.
In any case, choose up COWBOY CARTER on vinyl right here and see the place it landed on our Finest Albums of 2024 record. Oliver Anthony, in the meantime, was not included on this 12 months’s rating.