Samples and Covers in Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Album

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 02: (L-R) Beyoncé accepts the Album of the 12 months award for “COWBOY CARTER” with Blue Ivy Carter onstage throughout the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Enviornment on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Picture by Kevin Winter/Getty Photographs for The Recording Academy)

Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter is laced with samples and covers of iconic songs, however are you catching on to them? We positively did on our personal however TikTok creator and human Shazam, Jarred Jermaine, has identified some samples and potential similarities of Cowboy Carter songs and different well-known tunes from numerous principally white artists. Do you agree with the similarities, and did you catch the samples and covers?

JOLENE

AUSTIN, TEXAS – MARCH 18: Dolly Parton performs on stage at ACL Stay throughout Blockchain Artistic Labs’ Dollyverse occasion at SXSW throughout the 2022 SXSW Convention and Festivals on March 18, 2022, in Austin, Texas. (Picture by Michael Loccisano/Getty Photographs for SXSW)

Let’s begin with a no brainer, “Jolene.” Beyoncé coated this iconic music by Dolly Parton and put her spin on it. Whereas the unique music was extra of a helpless plea for Jolene to not steal her man, Beyoncé’s model was extra of a warning.

AMERIICAN REQUIEM

Promotional portrait of American folk-rock group Buffalo Springfield, Nineteen Sixties. From left, American Richie Furay, Canadian Dewey Martin, American Stephen Stills (prime), and Canadians Bruce Palmer (1946 – 2004) (obscured) and Neil Younger. (Picture by Authenticated Information/Getty Photographs)

Now …the arduous one. Nonetheless, we figured this one out, which is backed by Jermaine who factors out the similarities between the strings in “American Requiem” and Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Price.” Take a take heed to it. Do you agree?

BODYGUARD

SAN DIEGO – JANUARY 26: Carlos Santana (L) performs with Beyonce Knowles of Future’s Little one (R) earlier than the beginning of Tremendous Bowl XXXVII between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Oakland Raiders on January 26, 2003, at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California. (Picture by Donald Miralle/Getty Photographs)

The verses in Beyoncé’s “Bodyguard” observe an identical sample to Santana’s “Easy.” That may not be so farfetched, contemplating Beyoncé carried out with Carlos Santana on the 2003 Tremendous Bowl.

BLACKBIIRD

The Beatles at London Airport, en path to America, thirteenth February 1964. From left to proper, a photographer, George Harrison, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and Paul McCartney. (Picture by Stan Meagher/Categorical/Hulton Archive/Getty Photographs)

One other no-brainer, Beyoncé’s “BLACKBIIRD” is a canopy of the Beatles’ “Blackbird.” Two very cosy summer time night time tunes. The duvet makes use of the unique recorded foot tapping of Paul McCartney and the unique acoustic guitar recording, in keeping with Selection.

SWEET ★ HONEY ★ BUCKIIN’

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In “SWEET ★ HONEY ★ BUCKIIN’,” Beyoncé interpolates the refrain of Patsy Cline’s “I fall to items.” A music that reached No. 12 on the Billboard Scorching 100 when it was launched in 1961, in keeping with Billboard.

II MOST WANTED

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Jermaine factors out two similarities, one being Miley Cyrus and Billy Ray Cyrus’s “Butterfly fly away,” and one other being Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide.” Which music do you assume it sounds most just like?

YA YA

Singer Nancy Sinatra, Might fifth, 1967. (Picture by Harry Dempster/Each day Categorical/Hulton Archive/Getty Photographs)

The high-energy monitor, “YA YA,” samples Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made For Walkin’,” and each songs are sufficient to make you rise up and bust out a minimum of a lil’ two-step.

YA YA Once more

Pop musicians The Seashore Boys holding their guitars, from left: Bruce Johnston, Al Jardine, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, and Mike Love, Finsbury Astoria, London, November sixth 1966. (Picture by Clive Limpkin/Each day Categorical/Hulton Archive/Getty Photographs)

In the identical monitor, Beyoncé interpolates the Seashore Boys’ “Good Vibrations.” “Ya Ya” is a really groovy tune throughout.

DAUGHTER

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To finish, the siren-like vocals on the finish of Beyoncé’s “Daughter” are a canopy of Italian Composer Tommaso Giordani’s “Caro Mio Ben.” Now that of those samples and similarities, take heed to the album and see in the event you can catch them or possibly spot a few of your individual.

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