{"id":47161,"date":"2025-08-06T06:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/47161\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T06:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:19:10","slug":"all-signs-beyonces-next-era-will-be-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/47161\/","title":{"rendered":"All Signs Beyonc\u00e9’s Next Era Will Be Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tUpon releasing Renaissance<\/a> in 2022, Beyonc\u00e9<\/a> let it be known that it was the first of a three-part musical reclamation series. The first album celebrated the Black, queer origins of dance music, fusing disco and house into a celebratory LP dedicated to her Uncle Johnny, who helped make some of her earliest stage costumes. Act II was Cowboy Carter, a country and Americana opus that was born out of the backlash she received in 2016 for performing her Lemonade-era country song \u201cDaddy Lessons\u201d with fellow Texan singers the Chicks at the CMAs.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor the past three years, fans have surmised that one of the albums would be rock. Beyonc\u00e9 has a long history with the genre, and its often erased and less financially successful Black roots have been reclaimed by her before<\/a>, on the Lemonade track \u201cDon\u2019t Hurt Yourself.\u201d As her Cowboy Carter tour comes to a close, the Bey Hive is buzzing with all the hints indicating that a rock reclamation is coming soon from the star. Here are some of the signs that Act III will have a rock & roll edge.<\/p>\n

\t\tHer latest Levi\u2019s ad\t<\/p>\n

\n\tBeyonc\u00e9 kicked off Cowboy Carter with a Levi\u2019s partnership \u2014 smart, since she pays tribute to the brand in a song on the album. Her latest ad is called \u201cThe Denim Cowboy\u201d and has Beyonc\u00e9 riding her white horse to a laundromat (with a sign advertising Uncle Johnny\u2019s Fine Tailoring inside). After winning a game of pool at the local dive, she ends up riding off into the night on a motorcycle. Leaving behind the steed that\u2019s been so integral to her country era makes it clear Beyonc\u00e9 is heading into a new direction, and no other possible genre exploration matches the biker lifestyle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\tShe dressed as Betty Davis last Halloween\t<\/p>\n

\n\tOver the past year, Beyonc\u00e9 has rarely stepped outside of her cowboy hats and denim. But when she has, her fashion choices have been pretty uniformly teasing the same shift. The most explicit was her decision to dress as Betty Davis last Halloween. Davis is known as the Queen of Funk, and she was trailblazing artist in the Seventies known for her taboo-smashing music and performances as well as influence on former husband Miles Davis, especially after introducing him to her friends Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThere are parallels between Davis and country star Linda Martell, who was featured on Cowboy Carter. Both had careers cut short in the Seventies, after being shafted by their labels and the industry at large. Their music was almost universally forgotten until the past decade, after minor resurgences, stories or documentaries helped enlighten younger generations to their small but brilliant discographies.<\/p>\n

\t\tHer controversial rock nomination at the Grammys\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDaddy Lessons\u201d wasn\u2019t the only Lemonade cut to shake up people\u2019s perceptions of who belongs in what genre. While her country song was rejected from the country categories<\/a> at the Grammys in 2017, \u201cDon\u2019t Hurt Yourself\u201d did nab a nom for Best Rock Performance. Disurbed frontman David Draiman made controversial comments about how \u201cstrange\u201d Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s nomination was.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt definitely stands out \u2014 like, one of these things is not like the other, you know? But what are you going to do?\u201d Draiman said at the time. Disturbed were up against her in the category, for their Simon & Garfunkel cover. Given the impact her CMAs reception had on Cowboy Carter, it\u2019s not unlikely that that comment stuck with her.<\/p>\n

\n\tSimilarly, her husband, Jay-Z, has faced backlash from rock bands for being on \u201crock\u201d territory. In response to the rapper\u2019s headlining slot at Glastonbury in 2008, Oasis\u2019 Noel Gallagher made a quip that hip-hop does not belong at the festival<\/a>. In response, Jay-Z picked up a guitar and covered \u201cWonderwall<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\tA long-documented history of covering rock songs live\t<\/p>\n

\n\tBeyonc\u00e9 is clearly a student of rock history and a huge fan of the genre. Tina Turner is one of her biggest influences and someone she has paid tribute to countless times onstage and offstage. Same goes for Prince, whom she performed with and also covered live, specifically her rousing rendition of Purple Rain track \u201cThe Beautiful Ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring festivals and tours, Beyonc\u00e9 has tackled a large number of rock hits: the Doors\u2019 \u201cFive to One,\u201d Kings of Leon\u2019s \u201cSex on Fire,\u201d Alanis Morissette\u2019s \u201cYou Oughta Know.\u201d Even on Cowboy Carter, she tackles the Beatles with her version of \u201cBlackbird.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Upon releasing Renaissance in 2022, Beyonc\u00e9 let it be known that it was the first of a three-part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,8661,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-47161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-beyonce","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}