Miley Cyrus gave Beyoncé her “flowers” for her new album, Cowboy Carter.
“I’ve beloved Beyoncé since lengthy earlier than I had the chance to satisfy and work along with her,” Cyrus, 31, wrote on Instagram on Friday, March 29, the identical day that Beyoncé, 42, launched the second album within the trilogy she started with 2022’s Renaissance. Cyrus is without doubt one of the many stars featured on the venture, becoming a member of Beyoncé for the tenderhearted outlaw duet, “II Most Wished.”
Cyrus posted the paintings for Cowboy Carter to her Instagram, together with a message about how her “admiration” for Beyoncé “runs a lot deeper now that I’ve created alongside of her.”
“Thanks, Beyoncé,” continued Cyrus. “You’re the whole lot [and] extra. Love you. To everybody who hung out making this tune so particular thanks from the underside of my coronary heart.”
“II Most Wished” sees Beyoncé and Cyrus be part of voices on the refrain. “I’ll be your shotgun rider ’til the day I die,” they sing. “Smoke out the window, flyin’ down the 405 / I’ll be your backseat child, drivin’ you loopy / Anytime you want, I’ll be your shotgun rider ’til the day I die.”
Elsewhere on the album, Cyrus’s godmother, Dolly Parton, seems through voice observe to make a refined reference to “Becky with the great hair” from Beyonce’s 2016 album, Lemonade. Parton, 78, says, “You already know that hussy with the great hair you sing about? Jogged my memory of somebody I knew again when; besides she has flamin’ locks of auburn hair. Bless her coronary heart. Only a hair of a special colour, nevertheless it hurts simply the identical.”
This second leads into Beyoncé’s model of Parton’s traditional “Jolene.” Whereas Parton first begged Jolene to not take her man “as a result of you’ll be able to,” Beyoncé warns the titular lady to not “take the prospect since you assume you’ll be able to.”
“Jolene, I’m a lady too / Thе video games you play are nothing new / So that you don’t need no hеat with me, Jolene,” she sings. Beyoncé’s model consists of nods to her romance with Jay-Z and the household they’ve began collectively. She additionally notes that Jolene “don’t need this smoke, so shoot your shot with another person.”
Cowboy Carter additionally options Beyoncé transforming songs by the Seashore Boys (“Good Vibrations”), Nancy Sinatra (“These Boots Are Made For Strolling”), Buffalo Springfield (“For What It’s Value”) and Chuck Berry (“Oh Louisiana”). The album additionally incorporates a cowl of the Beatles’ “Blackbird” with nation stars Tanner Ardell, Brittney Spencer, Tiera Kennedy and Reyna Roberts singing together with Beyoncé.