#blackbiird

Black women in country 🎀

Beyoncé covering The Beatles is something I thought I'd never get to experience and yet.....

"Blackbird," which was written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon and included on their 1968 self-titled album, is a song about hope and survival, with lyrics that encourage the titular bird to "take these broken wings and learn to fly." However, throughout the years, McCartney has been vocal about the song being inspired by the American civil rights movement and specifically the Little Rock Nine[.] He also shared that he wrote the song specifically with Black women in the civil rights movement in mind, which makes Beyoncé's decision to cover it with all Black female country artists especially significant. [...] The song has been covered extensively over the years[.] Now, Beyoncé's version featuring Tanner Adell, Tiera Kennedy, Brittney Spencer, and Reyna Roberts serves as a reminder of the Black women at the forefront of the racial justice movement. It also draws a parallel between the ways in which Black artists and particularly Black women artists still have to fight for space in the industry, especially in the country genre[.]