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Paul McCartney Praises Beyoncé’s ‘Magnificent Version’ of ‘Blackbird’: ‘Makes Me Very Proud’


Paul McCartney praised Beyonce's new cover of his song "Blackbird" and revealed what she told him on a FaceTime call in a new Instagram post.

On Thursday (April 4), Sir Paul McCartney took to his Instagram page to share a lengthy message lauding Beyoncé ‘s cover of The Fab Four’s “Blackbird,” which appears on her brand new Cowboy Carter album. “Blackbird,” stylized as “Blackbiird” on Beyoncé’s new LP, reimagines the acoustic original with additional bass, orchestral flourishes and lush harmonies (and lead vocals on the final verse) from a quartet of ascendant Black women in country music, including Tanner Adell, Reyna Roberts, Brittney Spencer and Tiera Kennedy. Those were the days of the civil rights movement, which all of us cared passionately about, so this was really a song from me to a [Black] woman, experiencing these problems in the States: ‘Let me encourage you to keep trying, to keep your faith; there is hope.

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