Final week, Beyoncé launched a canopy of the Beatles’ “Blackbird” on her new album Cowboy Carter, dubbed “Blackbiird” (with two i’s) to maintain with the album’s Act II theme. At this time, Paul McCartney, who wrote the track, shared a press release about Beyoncé’s resolution to cowl it.
“I’m so proud of Beyoncé’s model of my track ‘Blackbird,’” McCartney wrote. “I believe she does an impressive model of it and it reinforces the civil rights message that impressed me to jot down the track within the first place. I believe Beyoncé has carried out a fab model and would urge anybody who has not heard it but to test it out. You’ll find it irresistible!”
“I spoke to her on FaceTime and she or he thanked me for writing it and letting her do it,” he continued. “I informed her the pleasure was all mine and I assumed she had carried out a killer model of the track. Once I noticed the footage on the tv within the early 60s of the black women being turned away from faculty, I discovered it surprising and I can’t consider that also in lately there are locations the place this sort of factor is going on proper now.”
“Something my track and Beyoncé’s fabulous model can do to ease racial stress could be an incredible factor and makes me very proud,” he concluded.
At this time, Beyoncé launched a remix of “Texas Maintain ‘Em” with a brand new verse: