Beyonce’s Willie Nelson Collaboration Is No longer What We Anticipated

Willie Nelson seems on Beyonce‘s new nation album, Cowboy Carter, now not as soon as, however more than one occasions — however their collaboration isn’t remotely what lovers anticipated. The 90-year-old nation icon seems on a number of tracks, now not as a singer, however as a narrator of varieties, offering voiceovers that draw from his personal roots as a Texas DJ.

Nelson in the beginning broke into nation tune as a disc jockey in Texas prior to he made his approach to Nashville to change into a best songwriter and, sooner or later, an artist in his personal proper. He seems on Beyonce’s much-anticipated Cowboy Carter on a monitor titled “Smoke Hour,” which, given its name and his extensively documented love of marijuana, lovers had speculated could be a duet concerning the joys of weed.

As a substitute, “Smoke Hour” seems to be a fictional radio display at the small-town Texas radio station KNTRY, with Nelson serving as its DJ as he introduces different tracks on Cowboy Carter.

“Welcome to the Smoke Hour on KNTRY Radio Texas,” Nelson starts after what appears like him lights up and taking successful. “You understand my title, no want to know yours. Now, for this subsequent song, I need you all to sit down again, inhale and pass to that excellent position your thoughts loves to wander away to. And if you do not wanna pass, pass in finding your self a jukebox. Thanks.”

That intro leads into “Texas Dangle ‘Em,” which Beyonce launched to nation radio as the primary unmarried from Cowboy Carter after she introduced the album by means of marvel throughout the Tremendous Bowl on Feb 11.

Nelson seems once more on “Smoke Hour II,” voicing, “You might be tuned into KNTRY Radio Texas, house of the true deal. If there is something you’ll be able to remove from my set as of late, let or not it’s this: From time to time you do not know what you favor till any person you agree with turns you on to a few actual excellent sh-t. And that, girls and gents, is why I am right here. Up subsequent at the Smoke Hour is ‘Only for Amusing,’ by means of Beyonce. You might be welcome.”

That intro leads into “Only for Amusing,” a collaboration between Beyonce and Willie Jones.

Beyonce first teased Nelson’s participation in Cowboy Carter when she posted the tune titles and one of the crucial credit in a intentionally imprecise means on Wednesday (March 27). The album additionally contains Beyonce’s quilt of Dolly Parton‘s “Jolene,” in addition to a voiceover from Parton titled “Dolly P.” Miley Cyrus and Put up Malone additionally seem on quite a lot of tracks, and Black feminine nation tune pioneer Linda Martell additionally supplies a number of voiceovers.