A single album, or even song, can crisscross sounds with reckless abandon.
Such a project from a multihyphenate pop star was always going to ruffle a few feathers.
Post Malone, Miley Cyrus, country singer Willie Jones, Nigerian American artist Shaboozey, and others feature.
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Now, however, the world-building centers on more easily identifiable tropes and motifs.
(Made up of 27 tracks, it runs for a commanding 78 minutes.)
And yet, amazingly, it all fits together.
The album slots neatly into Beyonces artistic canon, one that has often seen her buck against convention.
Before its release, Beyonce insisted thatCowboy Carteraint a Country album.
This is a Beyonce album.
But, in fact, it manages to be satisfyingly both.
