Beyoncé, la reine mondiale du R'n'B et de la pop, sort son premier album de musique country, inspiré par son Texas natal et mettant en avant l'influence afro-américaine dans ce genre populaire à l'image très conservatrice.
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00:00 Beyoncé, the world queen of R&B and pop, releases her first album of country music,
00:05 inspired by her native Texas and highlighting the African-American influence in this popular genre with a very conservative image.
00:11 The African-American singer, also an actress and businesswoman, is released on Friday night, 4pm GMT, Cowboy Carter, Act 2 of her Renaissance trilogy.
00:21 Born in Houston to a Louisiana mother and an Alabama father, Beyoncé, 42, became, at the end of February,
00:28 even before the release of the album, the first black singer to rank a song at the top of the country's record charts,
00:33 a very popular musical genre in the United States and traditionally associated with white men.
00:38 With the success of the Texas Old M, rhythmed with the sound of banjo and the single "16 Carriage", released during the Super Bowl on February 11,
00:46 black country artists hope to benefit from a spotlight.
00:51 From her first female gospel and R&B group, Destiny's Child, to her 2016 tube "Daddy Lesson", Beyoncé,
00:58 wife of rapper and businessman New Yorker Gigi, Shawn Corey Carter, has highlighted her native South and the influence of country on her music and style.
01:06 White musician-conservator
01:08 This musical genre has always imbued the work of Queen Bey, whose worldwide triumph shakes the traditions of a country rather associated with white and conservative musicians.
01:18 According to music historians, the banjo, an instrument of origin of country, bluegrass or folk music,
01:24 finds its roots in the 17th century Caribbean, then played by black slaves deported from Africa to the Americas.
01:30 Brought to the east of the United States, the banjo was taken up by white populations from the Appalachians in the following century.
01:36 Black country has always existed, but black musicians have been kept out of the genre.
01:43 Singer, author, dancer, producer, actress, Beyoncé is today the most crowned artist in the history of the Grammy Awards,
01:51 award from the American music industry.
01:53 But paradoxically, among her 32 awards, she never won the best album.
01:59 A controversy over the lack of diversity that her husband Gigi has re-fed by criticizing the music industry during the last Grammy Awards on February 5.
02:08 Beyoncé had also been a victim of racism in 2016 after playing her song "Country" by Adi Lesson,
02:14 at the awards of the Association of this Musical Genre.
02:17 "The critics who targeted me when I put my foot in "Country" forced me to go beyond my own limits," she wrote recently on Instagram.
02:25 "This new album is the result of the challenges I have thrown myself and the time I have taken to twist and mix genres for this work."
02:32 In 2019, one of the songs of the year, "Old Town Road" by rapper Lil Nas X, with hip-hop and country accents,
02:39 had been removed from the Billboard country rankings, officially because it did not understand enough elements of this style.
02:45 Which had made controversy.
02:47 Purely white country.
02:49 As soon as a black artist releases a country song, the judgments of value, comments and criticism fly in a squad,
02:56 as was stated in the British newspaper The Guardian by folk singer and blues singer Rhiannon Jiddens,
03:01 present on the song "Texas Old DM".
03:03 She denounced people who try to preserve the nostalgia of a tradition, of a country, purely white that never existed.
03:10 In recent years, black artists have all managed to break through in country, like Mickey Guitton and Britney Spencer.
03:18 Sign of this late recognition, the famous folk and country song by Tracy Chapman released in 1988, "Fast Car",
03:25 received the Best Song of 2023 at the Country Music Awards, but it was after the white singer Luke Combs gave it a go.