Beyoncé - AMERIICAN REQUIEM (Official Lyric Video)

I turned 73 yesterday. Saw the Beatles live twice in my tweens. Went through a long hippie phase in the 60s. Got completely engulfed in punk in the 70s and post-punk in the 80s. In a lifetime of listening to great music, Cowboy Carter has grabbed me and won't let me go. This album is SUBLIME. Lemonade turned me into a Beyonce fan; Cowboy Carter clinched me as a fan for life. Long live Queen Bee!

The harmonies, the production, the lyrics, this is how an opening track should be made!!

IT'S A LITERAL FUNERAL MASS IN UNDER 6 MINS. LOVE IT. It's structured like a Church service with a clear Opening Hymn, Sermon, Closing Hymn structure, and specifically a Black or Southern Baptist church when it comes to the Sermon portion. A lot of people realize that requiem means funeral mass and what the song means about laying the old ideas and biases to rest but no one is pointing out that the song itself is quite literally a full funeral mass, start to end. During the sermon portion there are vocal interjections as a choir would with a preacher in a call and response sort of way and also preaching chords. IT IS INGENIOUS & BRILLIANT! A clever girl indeed.

I can’t stop listening to this. It’s so cinematic.

People are going to talk about ‘Jolene’ or ‘Ya Ya’, but THIS song is going to be what’s on movie soundtracks for the rest of our lives. Instant rock classic.

THAT ROCK ALBUM BOUT TO CRAZY FOR ACT 3

One of the best opening tracks ever made.

The fact that she gave us an album AFTER this song? This is an opus. Her talent is a divine gift.

This production is absolutely INSANE!!!

She just fused psychedelic rock, country, and soul (at least). Amazing! 🤩

Her voice is TRULY an instrument.

“them big ideas, are buried here' hits so hard, its such a good intro for this album and introduces herself, i love it

The BEST Opener in the history of Openers. My personal favorite from this album

After listening to this album in full, I'm going to need Beyonce give us a theater tour. A live version of this would be insane!! She would finally have her Tony!

commecially harder to consume, but for people that are deep into music, this is the finest art

Up until 3 days ago, I had never listened to a Beyonce song. Then I heard Blackbird and I wept tears of joy . . . and then I heard American Requiem and I was totally mesmerized by the power and the vastness of the intention. Beyonce, you are a force of Nature and you are leading the way towards justice and equality. Thank you.

This is ART in it's highest form. WOW. Brings back REAL orchestration and choir vocals and harmonies.

THE VOCAL STACK IS TREMENDOUS

Imagine recording more than 100 songs for Cowboy Carter, an instant masterpiece of genre-bending and storytelling with some of your best vocals (in a career of many many stellar vocal performances), THEN following that up with Renaissance, a masterpiece in its own right, and one of the greatest dance records to ever be produced. AND still having a whole ass album sitting in the vault waiting for release. BEYONCÉ IS UNSTOPPABLE. This lady is done with the industry’s games. IM ABSOLUTELY SHOOK.

This album is like a protest on its own. she’s an ICON