Beyoncé - 16 Carriages - First Time Reaction by a Rock Radio DJ
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00:00 Intro / Country Opinion
05:34 Song & Reaction - Hudba
FYI - Skip to 5:34 if you just want to hear the song/reaction without my commentary on why I said Texas Hold 'Em wasn't QUITE Country (to me) last week. Thanks!
She actually released both songs at the same time but of course people focused more on texes hold um which is a good song but if you like the emotional stuff 16 carriages knocked it put the park and people forget Beyonce gave up her childhood and most of her adult life to become who she is today it didnât happen over night and thatâs not her fault that sheâs extremely talented
Oh, I don't fault her at all. She's about as close to a child star as you can get as I believe she was singling semi-professionally in her teens.
Texas Hold 'Em got the attention because it was supposed to get the attention. Seems that was the plan and it worked out rather well.
I agree with you 100% that this song knocked it out of the park. I found it to be a solid song that hits you right in the feelings!
For Beyonce fans, this wasn't much of surprise. She always understands the assignment. If she says she's doing country, she's diving in deep (with her own twists of course). Act iii is likely going to be rock, and I do not doubt that she'll hit those marks too. I mean she already did a rock song with Jack White called Don't Hurt Yourself and it was almost too good lol. In a way, she is underrated by the general public because they only know the radio hits like Single Ladies and there is so much more to her discography than that. Great reaction btw!
Thanks! I would definitely be one of those members of the general public who had no clue that she was more than just a pop/top 40 machine. đ€Șđ€©
You should check out her âDaddy Lessonsâ
Now THAT sounds like a solid name for a country song! Iâll fire it up in the next week or two! Thanks!
Texas Hold em is the lead single, of course its gonna sound different and be more radio friendly. This song is much more musical
Yep! Texas Hold âEm has much broader market appeal. Brings the pop and top 40 crowd to her country side.
I really enjoyed your review. I think it is nice to hear a non biased opinion from someone who isnât already a die hard Beyonce fan. I am a die hard fan but this music feels different and special and everyone is very excited to see what she does with this new album.
I honestly didnât realize she was this good. Iâve had this bias against pop/top 40 for so long that I really never gave much of it a chance. Iâm actually thinking about going back to some of her older songs and seeing what I missed. I guess it all meant sugary dance tunes and Iâm excited to expand my VERY small musical world!
@@ReactionsThatRock Awesome, I think you will enjoy some of her older stuff and she does have quite an extensive discography going back to her Destinyâs child days. Yes alot of is very pop and r&b but you can see how she has evolved and matured over time. The Lemonade album is very poetic and I suggest watching the visual album first to that, as well as the 2013 album simply titled Beyonce which is also a visual album and hauntingly beautiful.
Well said Without southern Blues there's no country music .facts !!â€â€â€
Thank you! Definitely a fact! đđ
Thanks for sharing your reaction. I appreciate everything you said for this song and Texas Holdem . Keep being open minded. Love it. New subscriber.
Thank you! Iâm honestly surprised her songs were as enjoyable to me. I donât typically care for pop or R&B (or country for that matter) but these songs were good and Texas Hold âem is regularly stuck in my head! I think I need to hear more of her songs!
Okay I'm here to help u....rnb had changed from 2000 to 2006 to 2010 to 2014 to 2024..if u listen to top rnb songs today rnb doesn't sound like rnb that was even 5 years ago...and that's exactly with country and it's gonna evolve with time and then it's beyoncĂ© country singers are not vocally trained but beyoncĂ© is beyonce will definitely add her vocals and opera singing bcz she had done it for 25 years....and that's why she is beyonce and like I never used to listen to country but due to beyonce now I'm... that's why it's a big deal bcz beyonce is way bigger than anything and anything she will do will grab attention....and she made act 1 (ablum1) about house music 2country 3 rock ....all these are made by black PPL and she is reminding everyone it's black music.... that's all I hope you understood â€
I appreciate the feedback. I agree that all music changes over time. If not, weâd all still be dancing the Charleston!
Even by todayâs genre standards, it wasnât quite a country song to me. Thatâs not knocking it at all. I think itâs a great song. It gets stuck in my head regularly and itâs gotten me to listen to other BeyoncĂ© songs which are great!
I think this was exactly the intent of the song. Itâs country enough to bring country fans to it but still pop enough not to alienate her pop fans. Thereâs a great lesson in this song about how to break in to a new genre without giving up the old genre. Itâs a teaser. It gets non-fans interested in BeyoncĂ© and it keeps BeyoncĂ© fans as fans. Itâs a master class and she executed it perfectly!
Her name is pronounced bee-yawn-say Iâm sorry the way you were pronouncing her name bothered me LMAOOđ
I canât win!!! Iâve always called her BEEyonce and someone commented on my last video saying it was BAY and that I was racist for not knowing that. Thought I was doing better⊠my bad.
@@ReactionsThatRock LMAOO NO ITS OKAY I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW đ
@@HarajukuStalli I appreciate it. Did you catch when I first said it that I was unsure of myself? Didnât sound right, but after being told Iâm a bad man, I wanted to get it right.
Iâm guessing I was trolled. đł
@@ReactionsThatRock I think the reason ppl were
Critiquing your critique was because they were expecting you to âknow thingsâ about Bey when your just becoming acquainted with her artistry and style. I will say this tho. Take whatever you hear from her with an openmind. She plans out EVERYTHING and loves symbolisms and double meanings. Sheâs versatile in what she creates and there is always layered reasoning behind her projects. This album act ii is country inspired and act iii presumably is going to be rock. Act i was House/Dance.
@@markalusss I get that. Iâve been living under a rock the past 30 years. I know very little outside of rock/metal and the country/oldies I grew up up with.
Iâm blissfully ignorant. đ€Ș
IMO I would say Bey fans love 16 Carriages more than Texas Holdâem. TX Holdâem is the new Single Ladies for casual Bey listeners and non-fans. Bey fans â€her ballads. I listen to 16 Carriages 10x more than TX Holdâem.
I can 100% see this! I feel like Texas Hold âEm was designed to have the mass market appeal of the âI listen to everythingâ music crowd while 16 Carriages has deeper meaning. I didnât go in to this as a BeyoncĂ© fan (not a hater either, just not my typical listening choice) but Iâm becoming one. I honestly had no clue how good she is but this song hit some emotions!!!
If you only know her from her radio days then you are missing out! Itâs not until you see her live that you truly understand/appreciate her as an artist. Have fun on your Bey journey through her catalog and LIVE performances đ I call it Pure Joy.
Thank you for this. I appreciate your take on these songs. I hope you do the album when it comes out. I love this song and I agree itâs more country than Texas HoldâEm although I do think itâs also as country as a lot of âcountryâ on country radio.
Oh, this is MORE country than a lot of country on country radio. So was Texas Hold 'Em honestly!
I think I'm really just getting started here. I've kind of always dismissed Beyonce songs as I'm not in to pop, top 40 or dance, but there seems to be a whole lot more depth here than what I originally thought.
I might just be getting started.
This story was true. She had to get on the road at a young age with Destinyâs Child and make a living for her family, as her dad quit his job to manage them. Notice how she starts the song saying âunderpaid and overwhelmedâ now itâs âOverworked and overwhelmedâ 38 years later.
Also Beyonce is genreless. She does all genres. And you should listen to her first country song âDaddy Lessonsâ on her Lemonade album from 2016
I figured it was true (or had truth to it) but itâs so hard to tell as I have very little familiarity with her music or her life. Iâm honestly surprised that Iâm liking it as much as I am as I always thought she was just about dance songs and pop. Iâll definitely be checking out more!
U should re listen to holdem itâs a story too. Itâs a love story and sheâs basically telling the person this ainât no card game (Texas Holdem) lay your cards down (show me your hand and quit playing games)
Oh it does have a âstoryâ but so does Just Dance by Lady Gaga. I also do t recall George Jones writing such lines as âDonât be a bitch come take it to the floorâ.
Iâve actually listened to it a lot. Itâs a good song. Iâm really digging it! Thereâs ZERO doubt in my mind that it was written specifically to be almost country so that her pop fans would buy in to it, country fans would accept it and some controversy will make it a top conversation piece for a week or two.
Itâs a good song. One dudeâs internet opinion on genre doesnât take away from that.
You should react to BeyoncĂ©- all nigh live tidal and air I were a boy live at the Grammys đ ps her band ALWAYS go crazy
Ooh Iâll check those out. Iâve honestly never really heard anything beyond Single Ladies and Iâm really enjoying her depth. Thanks for the recommendations!
@@ReactionsThatRock of course I assure you if you love live vocals and live band your in for a ride , You have to listen to the album lemonade too1
@@kelenaffqnklin wow. I honestly had no idea! For being a megastar Iâve really never heard any of her music. I assumed it was all poppy dance tunes. Canât wait to dive in!
3:16 just because it doesnât immediately tell a story to you doesnât mean that itâs not country. Texas hold em was about someone opening themselves up and not to be guarded. âSo lay your cards down down down downâ. It didnât fit the stereotypical country, but it was still country.
Yep. Even borrowed the classic George Jones line âDonât be a bitch come take it to the floor now.â đ€Ș
I think you need to educate yourself on the history of country musicâŠthis song is so country
I literally say THIS song is country. So... thanks?!?
How come it isnât a country song that has elements of pop or dance but the other way round? Iâve had to listen to current country songs because of comments like these since BeyoncĂ© released this record . Thereâs hardly any authentic country song out there , yet no one comments about how not QUITE country these songs are .
I can only really speak on my opinion, but Iâve had no problem calling out other songs on country radio that I donât think quite fit the country vibe. Iâve been listening to a lot of Brantley Gilbert lately, but most of that to me is Southern Rock.
Also, âFancy Like Applebeesâ is closer to pop than Texas Hold â Em and might even be close to parody.
Watch for the use of the word âmodernâ. Both rock and country use it to signal songs that arenât true to the genre as a means of saying âthis is what the genre is nowâ.
The goal of radio now is to stay afloat by playing the songs with the broadest appeal to keep the listeners engaged and advertising revenue up. This is why almost every genre has its âoutlawâ or âindependentâ style. Look at how much great rap doesnât get attention as mumble rap and soft rap take over the airwaves.
Iâve gone on a whole tangent here, but I can assure you that my personal opinion (as I explained in the first 5 minutes of this video) is that thereâs a LOT of country that isnât particularly country but close enough for airplay and industry attention.
Exactly!!!
Cause she black country and we all know only white country is allowed to exist. đ
I don't get it. Wasn't Shania country? But it sounded different from country country, but it was called country. So what's the problem.
She was played on country but it was pop.
Just my opinion though.
I appreciate you trying to reference a Destiny Child song haha!
That was SOOO bad! Right after I stopped recording, âStayâ popped in to my head. Awful timing! I really havenât listened to any R&B or even pop since the late 80s when my older sister was in to it. Solid D- effort from me!
@@ReactionsThatRock definitely a solid D. I was impressed because I cam see it not your typical genre
@@Mya_water not even close!!! đ€Ș
I think it definitely contains pop but it's like country pop to me I wouldn't say country adjacent. I would say the song doesn't tell a story but it explains a situation. But It's ok we can have different opinions!
This right here is a PERFECT response. Thank you!
Honestly, Iâve listened to it a lot more since I did the original reaction and I think whatâs been throwing me off is that itâs got a seriously solid gospel undertone to it. The beat and the chorus really do have a southern revival / gospel feel to it and I think that may be where my âadjacentâ notions lie and not with the pop element. Regardless, itâs also still more country than most current country songs. đ€Șđ€·ââïžđ€©
@@daggerncloak7428 those current country songs you speak of⊠I consider them country adjacent (and some, not so adjacent).
People got heated because despite my heaping praise on the song, talking it up, liking it, enjoying it and saying it should dominate the charts and inspire TikTok dances and whatnot, some people just need to argue. This all-or-nothing musical cultism does no one any favors. I simply canât reiterate enough that Iâm one guy with one opinion. Itâs also not even close to reasonable to assume that this song is the only song I feel this way about.
Ainât a thing I can do about that.
For what itâs worth, Texas Hold Em is more country than anything Colt Ford sings on or Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy. đ€
Loool dudes dissing people's country collection đđđ.
Sure is. Dude has his own opinions. What a douche. đ€Ș
I understand what you're saying but I feel like it's a bit false because a good storyteller is a good storyteller in writing a song. Whether you believe it or not to be authentic to their life helps, but it doesn't make it The end-all be all. Taylor Swift is a billionaire. Do you think that she's not able to write a country song now because she hasn't made one since like 2010 but nobody would say oh she's rich so how is she going to be able to write a country song? Like I understand what you're saying, but that's not how genre music work. In my opinion, genres of music are just a big melting pot anyway now and it's all pop music because pop music means popular music
Oh I donât disagree.
Iâm not really sure âTexas Hole âEmâ is a particularly good story though. Itâs a banger of a song⊠but it doesnât really say a whole lot, does it?
Youâre not really wrong about genre though in general. Itâs almost a lost construct these days.
Hell, Jelly Roll has been writing almost the exact same style of music for two decades and itâs been called rap, rock, blues and country. đ€·ââïž
I listened to the Texas Hold Em twice and I really want to like it. I agree the beat is nice and dancy, but the lyrics make me feel bipolar or something. I just tried 16 Carriages above but had to stop as I wasn't ready for the way they have the timing/rhythm of the lyrics. And I don't think the 'story' is 100% 'blue collar', but it's still someone's story and I am fine with it. I wouldn't listen to it by choice because I really do not like the cadence she has in 16 Carriages. I am sure, though, like art in a museum, it can be contemplated and appreciated as art on many levels - as in the cadence itself may represent struggle, but it doesn't really speak to me, surely it speaks to someone.
I kinda liked the cadence. It had a real 1850s southern poetry vibe to it that oddly worked for me. My wife has her degree in English and I'm sure it would drive her absolutely bonkers!
Texas Hold 'Em was a fun song for me. Perhaps it's because I really don't know any Beyonce (or dance/R&B for that matter) but it was not what I was anticipating. I've checked it out a few more times and its growing on me (if you're into music production, play around with the levels and balance... there's some subtle treats in there!).
Please say her Name Correctly â€â€â€â€please and thank u
⊠but then how would I drive engagement?
Seriously, I just live in a bubble. Iâll get it right next time. đ€©đ
Great reaction. Anyway, can i request your reaction to superb band from japan?
The band is call "Lovebites"
They all The Beautiful Queens Metal band right now in the earth.
They are really really World class musicians. Phenomenal.
And they have a lot die hard fans too.
The song is "Judgement day"
Hope you check out, and can enjoy it too. Big thanksđ
Thanks!
Requests are always welcome here! About a month ago I checked out their live version of M.D.O. I'm sure I can give Judgement Day a spin!
Loool dudes dissing people's country collection đđđ.
Being purist means no evolution.
Sorry. You can keep your FGL and Colt Ford albums. Donât toss em out on account of my lack of evolution.
Nope! Sounds hip hop to me! Being from nashville nope not country!
YepâŠ. But to be fair, Nashville has been putting out a lot of hip-hoppy âcountryâ for a while. đ€Șđ€
@@ReactionsThatRock yeah I was around during the crossover period early 90's. That's how nothing is real country these days. But it is to commercial for me!
@@markmathis8503 I could tolerate some of the early 90s stuff my parents listened to but once Boot Scoot Boogie rolled out I was done.
@@ReactionsThatRock man that wasn't even music, a tune for rednecks to get drunk, dance, and think they were Cowboys! Cowboy hats and pretty boots!
Dude, so what you gonna do about the majority of the country music then đ. No point picking on this one artist, when there's already a stampede.
She ain't country music!
đŻ not at all!!!!
IF I SEE HER PERFORMS AT THE CMA AWARDS.... I'M OUT!!!!!!!!
Neither is most modern country music if weâre just being fair and honest.
That said, if you know who runs the CMAs I think itâs almost a guarantee that sheâll be there. đ€·ââïž
Okay I'm here to help u....rnb had changed from 2000 to 2006 to 2010 to 2014 to 2024..if u listen to top rnb songs today rnb doesn't sound like rnb that was even 5 years ago...and that's exactly with country and it's gonna evolve with time and then it's beyoncĂ© country singers are not vocally trained but beyoncĂ© is beyonce will definitely add her vocals and opera singing bcz she had done it for 25 years....and that's why she is beyonce and like I never used to listen to country but due to beyonce now I'm... that's why it's a big deal bcz beyonce is way bigger than anything and anything she will do will grab attention....and she made act 1 (ablum1) about house music 2country 3 rock ....all these are made by black PPL and she is reminding everyone it's black music.... that's all I hope you understood â€
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