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Song of the Day #5,837: ‘Alliigator Tears’ – Beyoncé

The Ladies of 2024
#1 – Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter

I don’t think there was any suspense over which album would end up in the top spot. Beyoncé’s latest opus has left all competition in the dust on its way to what — God willing — should be her first ever Album of the Year Grammy.

The icon has now delivered four straight albums of emotionally resonant, genre-bending work, starting with her 2013 self-titled album, then 2016’s Lemonade, 2022’s Renaissance, and now Cowboy Carter, part two of a planned trilogy. For my money, this is the best of them.

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Song of the Day #5,767: ‘Alliigator Tears’ – Beyoncé

Continuing my countdown of the songs on Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter…

#10. ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’

Cowboy Carter‘s lead single is its most overtly country song, and one that set listeners up to have their expectations upended by an album that travels well outside those genre boundaries. It was a clever marketing strategy, but this is also a great song — proof that if Beyoncé had just stuck to the country basics, she still would have delivered a memorable record.

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