If the backing track on Beyoncé’s new recording of the Beatles’ “Blackbird” sounds especially familiar, there’s good reason for that. It turns out that the cover version she recorded for her “Cowboy ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Beyoncé put her own twist on Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” by adding new lyrics to the classic country song. In ...

After critics and racists questioned the artist's presence in country music after a controversial and fiery performance of her country song, "Daddy Lessons" with the Chicks at the 2016 CMA Awards, ...

In 2018, Sir Paul McCartney explained to GQ how and why he wrote “Blackbird,” as excerpted below: “I was sitting around with my acoustic guitar, and I’d heard about the civil rights troubles that were ...

If anything proves that music is the universal language, it’s the fact that The Beatles songs have been translated into so many dialects. A teenager covered The Beatles’ “Blackbird” in the Indigenous ...

Beyoncé dropped her new album Cowboy Carter a few days ago. On it, she put her own spin on The Beatles’ 1968 track “Blackbird.” Now, Paul McCartney, who approved her to use the original backing track ...

Feeling “unwelcome,” Beyoncé said she decided to delve into Black Americans’ “rich musical archive” for inspiration, and “Cowboy Carter” became a project akin to her previous album, 2022’s ...

Beyoncé Knowles-Carter included four emerging Black female country artists on her new cover of The Beatles' "Blackbird," further feeding an avalanche of conversation around Black women in this ...