{"id":22562,"date":"2024-04-04T22:03:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T22:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/04\/paul-mccartney-praises-beyonces-cover-of-blackbird\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T22:03:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T22:03:02","slug":"paul-mccartney-praises-beyonces-cover-of-blackbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/paul-mccartney-praises-beyonces-cover-of-blackbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney praises Beyonce\u2019s cover of \u201cBlackbird\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Beatles man and original writer of the song \u201cBlackbird\u201d, Paul McCartney, is delighted with Beyonce\u2019s version of the song, written \u201cBlackbiird\u201d that appears on a recent album <\/span>Cowboy Carter<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Taking to social media to share his praise for it, he wrote: \u201cI think she does a magnificent version of it and it reinforces the civil rights message that inspired me to write the song in the first place.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The song was originally written by McCartney amid the 1960s civil rights movement in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was written and inspired by the first black girls famously called the Little Rock Nine, who were the first to attend all-white schools after desegregation in Arkansas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I saw the footage on the television in the early 60s of the black (sic) girls being turned away from school, I found it shocking and I can\u2019t believe that still in these days there are places where this kind of thing is happening right now,\u201d McCartney continued.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnything my song and Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s fabulous version can do to ease racial tension would be a great thing and makes me very proud,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

This comes as the new album continues to break records for Beyonce, decades into her career.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ahead of the release, Beyonce had cited the mistreatment she got at the Country Awards popularly known as the CMAs as the inspiration to create it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis album has been over five years in the making. It was born out of an experience that I had years ago where I did not feel welcomed\u2026and it was very clear that I wasn\u2019t,\u201d she said at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n

She further added that she used the experience to learn more about the history of Country music as it pertains to black culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut, because of that experience, I did a deeper dive into the history of Country music and studied our rich musical archive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For the song \u201cBlackbiird\u201d she features up-and-coming black country artists Tiera Kennedy, Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer and Reyna Roberts.<\/span><\/p>\n

McCartney also said that he had spoken to Beyonc\u00e9 on FaceTime and she thanked him for writing \u201cBlackbird\u201d and for letting her cover it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI told her the pleasure was all mine,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI thought she had done a killer version of the song.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Former Beatles man and original writer of the song \u201cBlackbird\u201d, Paul McCartney, is delighted with Beyonce\u2019s version of the song, written \u201cBlackbiird\u201d that appears on a recent album Cowboy Carter. Taking to social media to share his praise for it, he wrote: \u201cI think she does a magnificent version of it and it reinforces the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}