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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- Rhiannon Giddens, one of the musicians on "Texas Hold 'Em" talks about how she looks to reclaim the Black history of the banjo, as Beyoncé's country debut sparks both controversy and praise.
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Ugh Rhiannon summed this up perfectly! “everyone can do what they want to do, no one is asking who gave Lana del Ray permission to write a country album. Everyone gets to write about their truth and go back to their roots. If you want to make a country album, make a country album. People say that’s not country, well that’s just racism.” PERIOD, IT IS! Literally even tho America is not actually “segregated,” we are. We literally have people gatekeeping musical genres that was not even created people who looked like in the first place, that’s is CRAZY!
When she broke down about people dancing to the banjo after knowing about the roots and history of where it came from BROKE ME!!! That is truly moving. Country music is black music too. It’s for everyone❤️😭
She broke me as well, this was a very touching interview
Absolutely Beautiful!
I mean It’s important to acknowledge the contribution of black artists to the genre but that also doesn’t mean we should forget that country is a combination of styles and sounds by people of all cultures and races. European and African instrumentation and folk music are both co-equal parts of the roots of the genre
@@Ariesguy41499 Country music was Black music FIRST. That’s how ignorant and Racist this is. Dig deeper and learn more about the theft and intentional disenfranchisement.
Yes, I said this in another post. Someone said country music is black music. I said it's not. Nor is it white music. It's a uniquely American music comprised of numerous cultures, both African, African American, Irish American, Scottish American. It would not exist without any of these cultures removed.
Rhiannon Giddens is also a national treasure. In addition to her solo work, check out the Carolina Chocolate Drops.
Ues, I so loved the Carolina Chocolate Drops!
Looking forward to it! Loved hearing from her! Beautiful work and woman. ❤️ Can’t wait to hear more of her music.
I fell in love with Rhiannon Giddens with Carolina Chocolate Drops....
yep
true
I’m glad Beyoncé is shaking the country music industry. Enough of this ugly racism. It was and still is one of the darkest times of this country 😢😢😢
Anyone know Charlie Pride?
@@hospice8896 Charlie Pride was a black country singer that won a Country Singer of the Year Award❤️❤️❤️
@@SleepyArcticBirds-ft4lb bingo, all of like six decades ago
@@hospice8896 discrimination hurts❤️
The dark times still continues too grow as USA' areas for beef meat industrues spreading methan which is causing 100 times faster the earth to heat up.
awww seeing Rhiannon get emotional has me tearing up. she played the h3ll out of that banjo!! definitely want to hear more from her ❤
Its because they're threatened by her they know how good she is, she has a number #1 country song already. She isnt going anywhere, the Hate just motivates her more.
Let's hope that fearful prejudiced rock n roll fans will throw shade at Beyonce'-
"Don't come over here!
You keep that over there!"
So that when Act III comes out'
It will consist of at least 4 albums worth of rock n roll material!
You got it!👍
Yep. New fodder for the prejudiced
to reveal their prejudice.
For the racists to reveal their racism.
Just judging this album simply on the merits of the music itself isn't enough for them.
You have people clearly denying the overwhelming history of the role black people played in the formation of country music, even after they watch videos like this one.
And not one of them will be able to counter the evidence with their own "historical narrative" to disprove what this video reveals.
It's fear, jealousy and stupidity.
These white people claiming that Beyonce's songs have too much of a "pop" twang are speaking nonsense, because funny how they don't have a problem with any white artist who sings country with a pop twang. If it was Taylor Swift doing a country album, she would have been welcomed with open arms. But since it's Beyonce, and she's black, she's not "country" enough for them---even though she was literally born and raised in Texas, where a hell of a lot of country singers come from. I call bullshit on that.
Wonderful interview! Rhiannon Giddens should be very proud of her work. She's breaking down barriers.
I am up in the a.m. listening and absorbing Beyonce's, "act ii Cowboy Carter" album and it's giving more than Country, she may have just introduced a new genre.👑💯 !
Me too! I’m blown away.
Omg, I love bey but I was thinking I wasn't going to like this album but I was wrong. I love this album so much. I listened to it from start to finish and I was so sad when it came to an end. This truly blew me away
Absolute Masterpiece👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Gospel Country??? Country Soul??? Country Blues???
Rhiannon, you are a national treasure and I'm so grateful Bey highlighted your talent and work in this new album. I got emotional watching this. I've been Bey's fan since the Destiny's Child days and I've never been a country music lover, but cowboy carter has had me researching American music history and downloading albums from artists like Rhiannon Giddens, Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, Tiara Kennedy & Reyna Roberts, which has been the most beautiful experience. Loved this interview!! ❤
The Dukes of Hazard star drove around in a car with a confederate flag on it so of course he’d say something racist.
Love beyonce country album.
He is from New York. His country roots are non-existent.
Dude, is from New York and is a prominent actor on a Tyler Perry show.
Thank you for this piece. Rhiannon is amazing and I've been lucky to have seen and heard her twice live: Ojai and in Los Angeles at Disney Hall. She is a genius, an educator, a musician! I have all her albums and listen to her often. I've watched may of her TH-cam videos. Music belongs to everyone! Stop the madness about country music. White folks need to get real and understand that Black folk/African folk have been here and will continue to create. I'm do sown with Rhiannon and Beyonce Y'all do your thing! God bless and peace.
You are one lucky lady to have seen Rhiannon live twice! I'm really getting tired of just how stupid racism makes people act. I'm almost 70 and I wish the world and especially Americans would just chill and stop this stuff. I love Beyonce too and her and Rhiannon are both unbelievably talented, gorgeous geniuses. Country music is lucky to have them contribute to the genre!
Omg! That ending section had me crying! 😢❤
Same ❤
It’s sad how this racist country makes people of color afraid to embrace something that was initially ours. 😢 Hate is a disease.
Soooooo happy Rhiannon Giddens is being spotlighted in the mainstream. People are in for a treat! Her work with the New Basement Tapes is absolutely amazing too if you want to hear more from Rhiannon. And she has so much more! 😊😊😊
I felt like crying too. Happy for this Album and Happy for Rhiannon Giddens playing the Banjo!! Just Awesome!!!❤
Wow I brought beyonce album and her album is really good
Rhiannon Giddens segment starts at 4:30
Blacks Folks....We started it all..Cmon People
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It’s because they can’t brush her aside like they’ve done other black female country artists…she’s already well known. They have to deal with her. They can’t throw her crumbs here and there like Mickey Guyton, others.
K Michelle is AMAZING and they are also just throwing her crumbs. We don’t need to ask for a seat at OUR table.
I absolutely ADORE Rhiannon Giddens, and also adore the Carolina Chocolate Drops!
"That's just racism!" You tell 'em, Rhiannon Giddens! She has such a passion for music that runs in the veins of her ancestors! This is our roots, too, and we were conditioned NOT to like it. Singers like Johnny Nash had a hard timeBut they could like Black music and pick up our lingo, but not give us credit to boot!
Call the pot black and get back! haha...Reminds me of the poem we'd say as children."If you're brown, stick around. If you're black, get black, red, enough said ...
I had the opportunity to watch Rhiannon Giddens some ten years back as she performed for Oakland youth musicians. They LOVED her, and so did I! She's an amazing music historian. Brilliant woman and very, very talented! Thanks, ABC News!
Support our black country artists 🤠 ❤. I’m here for it.
I praise Beyonce for being her 🙌 everyone who doesn't see that can kick rocks 💯
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Love beyonce album alot
it’s not a country album it’s a BEYONCÉ album
It's Beyonce singing country.
@@lettiegrant9447 There's actually very little Country in that album. There's some Country in there but the grand majority is not. There's more Gospel and R&B than Country in it.
@DaRunningMan ....... that's because it's a Beyonce album‼️of course, you are not complaining about Taylor Swift singing country music mixed with pop 👀 Yea.... I thought so.
This is a Beyonce QUOTE.
When you use your power and position the right way. . . Beyoncé 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
The nerve of anyone who tries to put a color or ownership a genra a 🎶 🎵 music. No one is the BOSS of Beyonce but herself. What u resist will persist. Her haters will be her motivators. Thnx for so close attention to someone u don't like 😅. 😅😅.
I love the history of this music and who are the originators of the banjo bravo to Rihanna and her amazing music 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Coded terms ( Dog whistling) YES, they tried to tell Beyoncé that she ain’t COUNTRY enough! She have to let know I am country! Album of the year is coming.
THIS is what happens when we walk out God’s Will for us in spite of fear or pushback. Beyoncé reclaiming the music of her community is powerful and gives permission for millions to do the same. Art impacts far beyond its original scope. Cowboy Carter is a Revolutionary Revelation. A gem like Rhiannon being a part of it adds to the many layers of depth that make up the album. Beyoncé and Rhiannon invite us to come back home; and I am happy to oblige✊🏽✨
This was beautiful and I am so honored to know that is you on the banjo! Wow! Queen B struck again and shed light on more black women talent. This album is a gift from Beyoncé to black women and America.
This album has ripped open the genre continuum. Rhiannon Giddens not only plays this clawhammer banjo she is also a trained opera singer and has composed an opera called Omar. Meanwhile, Beyoncé sings an opera singer classic Cari mío ben on the song Daughters. So we have country, Caribbean, opera, pop all colliding here. And it’s speaking to people. Congratulations Rhiannon and Beyoncé!
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She also sings in fluent gaelic and French. There is a video of her singing and playing La Vie en Rose that would make Edith Piaf cry.
Rhiannon, as always, keeping it real, naming what it IS, and schooling folks. She is brilliant and I am SOOO grateful that Beyoncé has elevated what Rhiannon has been doing for YEARS into a mass audience. I got to see Rhiannon perform at the Bijou in Knoxville several years ago. Mind. BLOWN.
Hell yeah! Rhiannon Giddons is talented as hell, and it's great to see her getting this platform--Beyonce's album---to get her and her music some well-deserved attention. I have one of her CDs, and need to listen to more of her music.
Hell yeah! Rhiannon Giddens is talented as hell, and it's great to hear some of her work being broadcast to a mass audience---as long as she's as been around not only playing country music, and schooling people about the contributions of black folks to country music that have been literally whitewashed the hell out of the history of country music by nothing but racism, she deserves it. Heard she's writing a book---I'd love to read her thoughts on being a black country musician, too. I need to listen to more of her work, since she's really good singer-songwriter, too. I do have one of her CDs, too.
Créole culture is still here too. I am so happy we can celebrate and find history too!!!
This was beautiful ❤❤
An honor to see my old professor in this video! Came here for Rhiannon Giddens, this was a pleasant surprise.
Been loving Rhiannon for so long!!! Keep it up ... we love you!! ❤❤❤
Rhiannon Giddens is amazing. Thank you Beyonce for introducing me to this legend.
I love her sass on this song. 🔥🔥🔥🔥 th-cam.com/video/jSRmisUZkG4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=vBQaXLIKEGGzW5dU
It always amazes me after colonizing something people want to keep the originators away.
Texas is a melting pot. As a Hispanic with Mexican parents, there’s lots of genres in Mexican music that are very similar to American country. I would say that both fed off each other and influenced each other. However, American artists and attitudes make it seem like they’re the only ones doing anything worth listening to or worth crediting. Is the new Beyonce record may get new audiences to be interested in the samples they used in production and start to appreciate the older music. Similar to how hip hop uses samples and people go off an listen to the original music.
God Bless Rhiannon Giddens for laying down the current path for us to return !
No different then when Taylor sings country with a pop twing!
I think the its more about her previous album that was very pro Black Lives Matter to now HOWDY DO!!!
Wow Giddens is magical
This is one of my fav albums. It's like she wrote about my life. Definitely touch my heart.
Beyonce album is amazing. I just brought it
bless her heart ❤
Beyonce album is dame good. I just brought it
@@TheBurnonme ❤️🔥
Honey, "bless her heart" is not a good thing... My North Carolinian grandmother said it in the nicest WORST WAY.
@@nairobi6891 ❤️❤️❤️
So good and so enlightening
This is another killers of the flower moon moment.
What is hilarious is r&b and hip hip is Black music and white artists have been welcomed in both Genres. Did they all get it right? Hell no. But they were allowed to try. Imagine in Blsck artists gatekept the way Country music did. Sorry but country music is straight up Maga
Love listening to Beyoncé country album
Don’t forget the reggae and rap artists that are white.
This was very enlightening❤️🎼
Love beyonce country album
COWBOY CARTER IS AN AMAZING ALBUM!!! I LOVE IT!!! ❤❤❤ PLEASE LISTEN TO IT, IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY.
Great spokesperson for the genre. #RhiannonGiddens
This collaboration is fantastic in so many ways- the history and a legacy nearly lost, stolen. Thank you, Rhiannon for digging and tracing the roots of the banjo back to Africa, and your outstanding playing and collaboration with Queen B 💕
Beautiful ❤
She killed that banjo! It’s so beautiful to hear!
She brings tears to my ears, a silent assassin.
Keep it moving Beyonce.
Rhiannon is fabulous
Funny thing when you listen to what the young people listen to it’s all over the place,country,hip hop classic rock even vintage Motown !
Great piece. Thank you.
Wi likkle but wi tallawah (this should really be the motto), big up the Jamaican ancestors for the Banjo 🇯🇲. Thanks for the new piece of info, Rhiannon
Shout out to Africa for birthing the banjo and carrying it across the sea.
Once again, Jamaica is overstating and exaggerating. The Banjo was brought to the Caribbean AND North America at the same time from West Africa. Y'all aren't the originators of that instrument. Africa is. And Jamaica has nothing to do with American Country music. Black American Blues and White American folk are the main ingredients.
Yeah I like how he cleans up his message
Beautiful work ❤
Thanks for sharing this information ❤
Beautiful reporting!
Come together…right now over music 🎶 and knowledge
Whoever that John guy is. Build a bridge and get over it mate. Haters are always going to hate.
No clue who that guy is 😂 lol
We love our QUEEN B! 🤙🏾🤠💯
White people finding out they appropriated too many things. Country influences are so big in Mexican music too. Beyoncé done did it! FUCKING QUEEN! Good job B 🐝
Incredible interview! What a lovely, talented lady!❤❤❤
She made me tear up! It’s sad when you need to ask permission to do done thing you love & already in your roots ❤
Country music was originally stemmed from the blues and is OURS (black folks)…she just came to snatch it back
I've loved Rhiannon Giddons and her music since her days with The Carolina Chocolate Drops.
There's Black women who really appreciate the artistry of country music...then theres gimmicky rich folks who copies folks
The origin of country music is from BLACK PEOPLE!!! FYI
She was the same one dissing Beyoncé years ago. Glad she's changed her tune, but still....side eye 🙄
that never happened. it was misinterpreted as such - i'm sure they didn't put her on the album because she changed her tune.
Love Beyonce , love Rihannon, over The lies that we need permission! Kick down doors! Go get em!
Morgan wallen did not get questioned with his dabbling with rap…😏 then theres keith urban, a whole Australian…
Absolutely wonderful 💎
If Eminem can rap become the best rap artist, then Beyoncé can sing country music and be the best country singer, it's about giving people a chance and opening doors that are always gate kept
I adore Rhiannon Giddens, I especially love when she’s teaching us history
This is not a “Country” album, it’s a Beyonce album…
❤Gidden
2:00 - John Schneider was born and raised in New York. He moved to Atlanta when he was 14. ATLANTA!!! He has no right to talk about who can play country music when he is a carpetbagger in the 1st place. Beyonce is actually from the south born and raised.
Carpetbagger! 😂 I haven't heard that term in a long, long time. 😅
Jealousy at its best!
Rhiannon, thank you for being a beautiful, loving musician and the history of the banjo!😊❤
Country music was always ours . Music is our “Mark” in our country- period
This is great music! Only racists squirm over this.
Ouf it feels a little hostile out there... for now
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her new country music might not do well in america , but who knows these country music might be played in every corner of china korea , it's a huge world out there
its doing well. its number #1 on the charts.
Like many things in the USA that were stolen, taken over, and claimed by "others", country music is no different. Interestingly, I used to say I wanted to be the Black Shania Twain but gave up on the idea bc of how exclusive the genre is. I have written many country songs but put my notebook to the side due to this issue. I hope that the amazing Black country artists receive more recognition and appreciation for composing and performing music that they have been gifted to share with the world.🎉🎉🎉
Remember people spending millions of tax dollars on sports in our schools won't get your child a good education or a job in the future!!!!!
TS must be shaking right now. 😂
Giddens banjo...❤ Im so greatful as a sc caucatian, to experience a new fine world of music. Viva music. Gods languange (misspelt i know) on earth. Viva the South, viva Eire, viva Sweden😊. Big hugs from Jonas Gothenburg, Sweden.
this is crazy because Rhiannon was part of the negativity surrounding Beyonce's CMA performance... the horrible negativity that inspired the album. A few years ago you didn't want Beyonce performing the CMAs but now that you can raise your profile off the back of her #1 album, you LOVE Beyonce singing country.
I felt more country when I lived in Houston than my home town of Waco, Tx!
Country is my true roots. My parents introduced me to Charlie Pride, and of course, the queen Dolly Parton. My siblings and I had The Devil Went Down to Georgia MEMORIZED!! #BlackandCountry
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Thank you so much Rhiannon you are without a doubt the best and sweetest person I’ve ever seen. You are a true Diva and inspiration to many people. Your a super star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Please stay safe and well too xxxx Mags ❤❤❤❤
Tracy Chapman was the first Black woman with a number one country song . And it was a record released in 1988! It was too sacred a music moment to ignore. a big month for country music. Yall know Tracy didn't do it for that, but she still deserves her credit. Please issue a correction. 3:02
Her album isn't classic country, but then again the same can be said about 80s country compared to 50s. This record is an evolution of the past mixed with modern style, making it sound somewhat fresh. Personally, may not be my favorite country songs, but I admire the originality. I also understand that people can't see past what appears to be an infiltration or non-genuine expression of art just because she is traditionally a pop artist, but that is their problem.
I love her passion for music, especially her passion for the banjo and who plays it. she is an Amazing lady (before Beyonce and after) I'm glad to know of her.
The guy who said “Just because you sing hip-hop music with a country accent doesn’t make you country” should tell that to Morgan Wallen considering he uses artificial hihats from Atlanta trap music…
Most modern country doesn't sound like country how are they going to hate on beyonce LOL
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I think it was the late Carl Perkins who once admitted some country artists were struck with fear when Ray Charles and Chuck Berry were recording country inspired / country music