After the country, is Beyoncé ready for a new rock act?

The collaboration between Beyoncé and Levi’s continues with a new video that seems to reveal The next stylistic and musical direction of the pop star. The movie finds the singer still immersed in the country aesthetic, explored in its previous album “Cowboy Carter” (here our review), before seeing it abandon the white horse and the Western imagination for go up a motorcycle and dart in the night. According to the US magazine “Rolling Stone” it would be one of the clues that would suggest the fold that Beyoncé wants to give to his third and next act.

Already with the release of “Renaissance” (here our review) in 2022, Beyoncé had stressed that she had started a musical trilogy aimed at exploring different sound and cultural souls. While that first record in the series celebrated the origins of dance music, and the subsequent “cowboy Carter” embraced the country style, the new chapter could see the pop star experiment with rock.

As mentioned by “Rolling Stone Us”, in the last three years the fans had already hypothesized that one of the trilogy albums would have been rock, the genre whose black roots have already been claimed by the singer with the track “Don’t Hurt Yourself” by “Lemonade” of 2016. According to the striped stars magazine, in addition to the new Levi’s “The Denim Cowboy” commercial, there are other suspects. they would suggest the soul of the third chapter. Pointing out that in the last twelve months Beyoncé has been rarely shown in public without cowboy and denim hat, “Rolling Stone Us” recalls the disguise of the star for Halloween from Betty Davisknown for her provocative music and for the influence exercised on the then husband Miles Davisespecially after introducing him to Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone.

In the last twelve months, Beyoncé has rarely shown herself without cowboy and denim hat. But in the few exceptions, his style choices have hinted consistently with a change. The most explicit clue was his disguise for Halloween: he chose to dress like Betty Davisqueen of the funk, revolutionary artist of the seventies known for her provocative music and for the influence exercised on the then husband Miles Davisespecially after introducing him to Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone. Furthermore, as a great fans of the genre, Beyoncé has indicated among its greatest influences both Tina Turner That Princewith which the pop star even performed in 2004 on the occasion of the 46 debt of the Grammy Awards. On other occasions the singer had the opportunity to take out his rock charge, as when he chose to reinterpret live “sex on fire” of the Kings of Leon or to insert samples of “Five to One” of the Doors during his live shows in 2016. Not to mention the tribute with the cover of “Blackbird” of the Beatles in the last album.