Beyoncé - AMERIICAN REQUIEM (Official Lyric Video)

THAT ROCK ALBUM BOUT TO CRAZY FOR ACT 3

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!

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.

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

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.

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

One of the best opening tracks ever made.

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

THE VOCAL STACK IS TREMENDOUS

This production is absolutely INSANE!!!

Her voice is TRULY an instrument.

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.

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!

The most heart wrenching sentence on this song is “them big ideas, are buried here” she is referring to all of the billions of people that lived and dared to dream but never got to see those big dreams come into fruition. America, the land of buried dreams.

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

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

Beyoncé has mastered her voice. Now she's like Grand Supreme. I love her so much 😭😭

I can hear the prince influence right here

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.