Beyoncé - 16 Carriages - First Time Reaction by a Rock Radio DJ
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00:00 Intro / Country Opinion
05:34 Song & Reaction
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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!
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. 🤪🤩
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 didn’t happen over night and that’s not her fault that she’s 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!
You should check out her “Daddy Lessons”
Now THAT sounds like a solid name for a country song! I’ll fire it up in the next week or two! Thanks!
I really enjoyed your review. I think it is nice to hear a non biased opinion from someone who isn’t 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 didn’t realize she was this good. I’ve had this bias against pop/top 40 for so long that I really never gave much of it a chance. I’m 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 I’m 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 Destiny’s 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.
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 ‘Em has much broader market appeal. Brings the pop and top 40 crowd to her country side.
Well said Without southern Blues there's no country music .facts !!❤❤❤
Thank you! Definitely a fact! 🙏😎
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! I’m honestly surprised her songs were as enjoyable to me. I don’t typically care for pop or R&B (or country for that matter) but these songs were good and Texas Hold ‘em is regularly stuck in my head! I think I need to hear more of her songs!
Her name is pronounced bee-yawn-say I’m sorry the way you were pronouncing her name bothered me LMAOO😭
I can’t win!!! I’ve 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 😭
@@HarajukuStalli I appreciate it. Did you catch when I first said it that I was unsure of myself? Didn’t sound right, but after being told I’m a bad man, I wanted to get it right.
I’m guessing I was trolled. 😳
@@ReactionsThatRock I think the reason ppl were
Critiquing your critique was because they were expecting you to “know things” 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. She’s 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. I’ve 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.
I’m blissfully ignorant. 🤪
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 beyoncé country singers are not vocally trained but beyoncé 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 ❤
I appreciate the feedback. I agree that all music changes over time. If not, we’d all still be dancing the Charleston!
Even by today’s genre standards, it wasn’t quite a country song to me. That’s not knocking it at all. I think it’s a great song. It gets stuck in my head regularly and it’s gotten me to listen to other Beyoncé songs which are great!
I think this was exactly the intent of the song. It’s country enough to bring country fans to it but still pop enough not to alienate her pop fans. There’s a great lesson in this song about how to break in to a new genre without giving up the old genre. It’s a teaser. It gets non-fans interested in Beyoncé and it keeps Beyoncé fans as fans. It’s a master class and she executed it perfectly!
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 it’s more country than Texas Hold’Em although I do think it’s also as country as a lot of ‘country’ 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.
IMO I would say Bey fans love 16 Carriages more than Texas Hold’em. TX Hold’em is the new Single Ladies for casual Bey listeners and non-fans. Bey fans ❤her ballads. I listen to 16 Carriages 10x more than TX Hold’em.
I can 100% see this! I feel like Texas Hold ‘Em was designed to have the mass market appeal of the “I listen to everything” music crowd while 16 Carriages has deeper meaning. I didn’t go in to this as a Beyoncé fan (not a hater either, just not my typical listening choice) but I’m 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! It’s 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 😉 I call it Pure Joy.
This story was true. She had to get on the road at a young age with Destiny’s Child and make a living for her family, as her dad quit his job to manage them. Notice how she starts the song saying “underpaid and overwhelmed” now it’s “Overworked and overwhelmed” 38 years later.
Also Beyonce is genreless. She does all genres. And you should listen to her first country song “Daddy Lessons” on her Lemonade album from 2016
I figured it was true (or had truth to it) but it’s so hard to tell as I have very little familiarity with her music or her life. I’m honestly surprised that I’m liking it as much as I am as I always thought she was just about dance songs and pop. I’ll definitely be checking out more!
U should re listen to holdem it’s a story too. It’s a love story and she’s basically telling the person this ain’t no card game (Texas Holdem) lay your cards down (show me your hand and quit playing games)
Oh it does have a “story” but so does Just Dance by Lady Gaga. I also do t recall George Jones writing such lines as “Don’t be a bitch come take it to the floor”.
I’ve actually listened to it a lot. It’s a good song. I’m really digging it! There’s 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.
It’s a good song. One dude’s internet opinion on genre doesn’t take away from that.
You should react to Beyoncé- all nigh live tidal and air I were a boy live at the Grammys 💛 ps her band ALWAYS go crazy
Ooh I’ll check those out. I’ve honestly never really heard anything beyond Single Ladies and I’m 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 I’ve really never heard any of her music. I assumed it was all poppy dance tunes. Can’t wait to dive in!
3:16 just because it doesn’t immediately tell a story to you doesn’t mean that it’s not country. Texas hold em was about someone opening themselves up and not to be guarded. “So lay your cards down down down down”. It didn’t fit the stereotypical country, but it was still country.
Yep. Even borrowed the classic George Jones line “Don’t be a bitch come take it to the floor now.” 🤪
I appreciate you trying to reference a Destiny Child song haha!
That was SOOO bad! Right after I stopped recording, “Stay” popped in to my head. Awful timing! I really haven’t 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!!! 🤪
How come it isn’t a country song that has elements of pop or dance but the other way round? I’ve had to listen to current country songs because of comments like these since Beyoncé released this record . There’s 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 I’ve had no problem calling out other songs on country radio that I don’t think quite fit the country vibe. I’ve been listening to a lot of Brantley Gilbert lately, but most of that to me is Southern Rock.
Also, “Fancy Like Applebees” is closer to pop than Texas Hold ‘ Em and might even be close to parody.
Watch for the use of the word “modern”. Both rock and country use it to signal songs that aren’t true to the genre as a means of saying “this is what the genre is now”.
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 “outlaw” or “independent” style. Look at how much great rap doesn’t get attention as mumble rap and soft rap take over the airwaves.
I’ve 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 there’s a LOT of country that isn’t 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. 🙄
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.
Loool dudes dissing people's country collection 😂😂😂.
Sure is. Dude has his own opinions. What a douche. 🤪
I think you need to educate yourself on the history of country music…this song is so country
I literally say THIS song is country. So... thanks?!?
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, I’ve listened to it a lot more since I did the original reaction and I think what’s been throwing me off is that it’s 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 “adjacent” notions lie and not with the pop element. Regardless, it’s also still more country than most current country songs. 🤪🤷♂️🤩
@@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 can’t reiterate enough that I’m one guy with one opinion. It’s also not even close to reasonable to assume that this song is the only song I feel this way about.
Ain’t a thing I can do about that.
For what it’s worth, Texas Hold Em is more country than anything Colt Ford sings on or Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy. 🤠
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 don’t disagree.
I’m not really sure “Texas Hole ‘Em” is a particularly good story though. It’s a banger of a song… but it doesn’t really say a whole lot, does it?
You’re not really wrong about genre though in general. It’s almost a lost construct these days.
Hell, Jelly Roll has been writing almost the exact same style of music for two decades and it’s been called rap, rock, blues and country. 🤷♂️
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 ❤❤❤❤please and thank u
… but then how would I drive engagement?
Seriously, I just live in a bubble. I’ll get it right next time. 🤩💜
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 thanks🙏
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 😂😂😂.
Being purist means no evolution.
Sorry. You can keep your FGL and Colt Ford albums. Don’t toss em out on account of my lack of evolution.
Nope! Sounds hip hop to me! Being from nashville nope not country!
Yep…. But to be fair, Nashville has been putting out a lot of hip-hoppy “country” for a while. 🤪🤠
@@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 😂. No point picking on this one artist, when there's already a stampede.
She ain't country music!
💯 not at all!!!!
IF I SEE HER PERFORMS AT THE CMA AWARDS.... I'M OUT!!!!!!!!
Neither is most modern country music if we’re just being fair and honest.
That said, if you know who runs the CMAs I think it’s almost a guarantee that she’ll be there. 🤷♂️
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 beyoncé country singers are not vocally trained but beyoncé 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 ❤
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