Beyonce covers "Blackbird"
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Using what sure sounds like Paul's original acoustic guitar track. Listen [here](link
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Published by MPL Music and Sony Publishing (Lenono Music)
Apple Corps and Calderstone should make money on this. Recording sounds exact to Beatles (though it's only Paul) recording from The White Album. But....
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Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ Is a Sprawling, Endlessly Entertaining Tour de Force: Album Review
Most significantly — as a symbolic gesture, and a piece of music — she does a duet with the up-and-comer Tanner Adell on a cover of the Beatles’ “Blackbird,” speaking of the original White Album. It’s not exactly a random nostalgic pick: Paul McCartney has said in recent years that he was inspired to write the inspirational ballad by the civil rights movement in the ‘60s, thinking of “bird” as then-popular British slang for girls and, yes, the overall title symbol as a euphemism for young Black women. Beyoncé was so taken by the idea of adopting this song for her own purposes that she didn’t just bring Adell onto it as a second lead voice; she forsook doing her usual own backup vocal stacking in favor of forming a small choir of other featured artists, including Brittney Spencer, Reyna Roberts and Tiera Kennedy. It counts as a leg up, given what Beyoncé’s cosign is worth, but on a purely musical level, it also feels sublime.
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“Texas Hold ‘Em”
“16 Carriages”
“Ameriican Requiem,”
“Blackbiird,”
“Protector,”
“My Rose,”
“Bodyguard,”
“Daughter,”
“Spaghettii,”
“Alliigator Tears,”
“Smoke Hour II,”
“Just for Fun,”
“II Most Wanted,”
“Levii’s Jeans,”
“Flamenco,”
“Ya Ya,”
“Oh Louisiana,”
“Desert Eagle,”
“Riiverdance,”
“Tyrant,” “II Hands II Heaven,”
“Sweet Honey Buckin'”
“Amen”ii
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And others have confirmed that i is indesd Paul's original 1968 guitar track that she used.
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Why I wonder did she change the spelling to Blackbiird?
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@bruce-m
from another site...." I've been following the progress of the reversion of the US songwiting publishing for Paul McCartney's songs to MPL since 2019. As of now, all of his compositions published through 1967 have been returned to MPL, as well as several from early 1968, namely Flying, Lady Madonna, Step Inside Love, and, just this week, Blackbird. Now Blackbird was not supposed to revert to MPL until this coming December (all of his White Album songs are supposed to return in the late November/early December timeframe). So I suspect there was some kind of deal for Blackbird's return to allow Beyoncé to not only record her version of the song, but to use Paul's guitar work and foot tapping from the Beatles' original. I note that a lot of Beyoncé's songs were published by Sony/ATV Tunes according to ASCAP. Not only that, the ASCAP listing for Blackbird now also includes the alternate spelling of Blackbiird which Beyoncé's version is called. I would love to know the whole story, but it appears two very powerful people can exert a lot of influence over a corporate giant to get what they want! Paul, rather than Sony/ATV, will now make a ton of songwriting royalties from Beyoncé's version!"
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@njr said in Beyonce covers "Blackbird":
Why I wonder did she change the spelling to Blackbiird?
It's the second in what is apparently planned as a 3 album series, or act ii -- so several songs with an i in the title become ii, as in "Alliigator Tears."
This is going to be the first album of hers I am going to buy -- I've liked all 4 tracks that I've heard.
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Paul McCartney Praises Beyoncé’s “Blackbird” Cover: “Makes Me Very Proud”
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@jimmix Her version is a little too pretty for me. I believe there was a reason George Martin did not adorn it when he produced it. The beauty is in the message and delivery. Having said that, I believe there are quite a few people who missed the civil rights thing about it and thought of it as being strictly about a black bird. I read someone's comments somewhere regarding the song that that was the very thing it was about to him......a bird. lol Love it!!!
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My copy of "Cowboy Carter" arrived yesterday and I've listened to the first half (it's really long -- runs something like 59 minutes). So far I'm really intrigued. Some of the modern soundscapes are a little jarring to my ancient ears, but I'm enjoying it so far. I will probably say more after a few listens and a little time to process.
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@bruce-m said in Beyonce covers "Blackbird":
My copy of "Cowboy Carter" arrived yesterday and I've listened to the first half (it's really long -- runs something like 59 minutes). So far I'm really intrigued. Some of the modern soundscapes are a little jarring to my ancient ears, but I'm enjoying it so far. I will probably say more after a few listens and a little time to process.
So... I don't really have much to add after a few listens. I respect it a lot, but not sure I will listen to it all that much. Clearly there's a lot of craftsmanship at work here, but like I said, the modern production and sound is not that welcoming to my ancient ears. But it's really interesting stuff.