at Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter is making waves ahead of its release date.
After singer Erykah Badu criticized the upcoming album of the 42-year-old singer Cowboy Carter cover, the longtime publicist of 32-time Grammy winner Yvette Schure came to the musician’s defense.
On Wednesday, Schure shared an Instagram Reel that featured a montage of Beyoncé rocking braided hairstyles throughout her career. “She kills. She kills. Now. Then. Always. #criticswithoutcredentials,” Schure captioned the post.
The aforementioned post follows Badu’s social media uploads on Wednesday questioning him renaissance singer’s album cover for Act Two: Cowboy Carter. In a recent album cover released on Wednesday, Beyoncé is naked with only a belt hanging across her chest and hips. On the belt is the inscription “Act II Beyincé” on a white piece of cloth with blue and red edges.
Her hair is braided, with red and white beads at the ends of the bangs. The mother-of-three’s pose was reminiscent of the Statue of Liberty’s stance as she held a lit marijuana cigarette.
Badu, 53, re-shared Beyoncé’s album cover on her Instagram Stories on Wednesday afternoon, writing: “Hmmm.” This post seemingly alluded to Badu’s affinity for a braided hairstyle with beaded bangs.
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Erykah Badu on November 30, 2023 in Berlin, Germany.
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After Badu shared the story, she spoke X (formerly known as Twitter) to enlist the help of Beyoncé’s husband, JAY-Z.
“To Jay Z. Say something Jay. You let this woman and these bees do this to me?? 😆”, she wrote in the post.
Wednesday’s album cover follows the singer’s first look at the upcoming album’s cover, which she shared on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, Beyoncé shared a “10-day countdown to the release” of her project, which was inspired “years ago.”
The Lemonade the singer said she was inspired after an experience she had “where [she] I didn’t feel welcome.”
“However, because of that experience, I delved deeper into the history of country music and studied our rich music archive,” she wrote. “The criticism I faced when I first entered the genre forced me to push the limits that were placed on me.”
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Beyoncé and Jay-Z on February 4, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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“I hope that years from now the mention of artistic race, as it relates to the release of genres of music, will be irrelevant,” the singer continued.
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Cowboy Carter it was announced for March 29.
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