Last week Beyonce shared her thoughts on the new album. ‘The joy of creating music is that there are no rules,’ she said ‘I didn’t want some layers of instruments like strings, especially guitars, and organs perfectly in tune.’

She added that she wanted some of the songs to be ‘raw’ and she ‘leaned into folk.’

The star ended with: ‘All the sounds were so organic and human, everyday things like the wind, snaps and even the sound of birds and chickens, the sounds of nature,’ she said.

Some of the films that lent inspiration include The Hateful Eight, Space Cowboys, The Harder They Fall, and the recent Oscar-nominated movie Killers of the Flower Moon.

The  album is considered ‘a declarative frequency and academic shift, as the world prepares to shift again, that redefines and rebuilds what is Country and Americana, and who gets to be included.’

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