Beyonce’s Solo Career Evolution: From “Crazy in Love” to Cowboy Carter and Beyond

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Even before Beyoncé kicked off her solo career, it was clear that she was a legend-in-the-making. As the de facto leader of Destiny's Child, she was a guiding light for the girl group and helped shepherd them to stardom in both the pop and R&B spaces. The group was at their height (and still very much together) as she launched her solo career, first with "Work It Out" for the Austin Powers in Goldmember soundtrack but with more gusto on "Crazy in Love.
"Crazy in Love" served as the lead single for Beyoncé's debut solo album Dangerously in Love. The song was written in two hours and became a Number One hit the same week Dangerously in Love topped the albums chart. Beyoncé has developed significantly as an artist since then with her last two albums, Renaissance and Cowboy Carter, being prime examples of how she’s still growing and finding new ways to master her artistry even two decades after the world first got a taste of who Beyoncé was on her own.
On this week’s episode hosts Rob Sheffield and Brittany Spanos discuss Beyoncé's career trajectory and how the superstar ended up being the youngest artist with the most entries on the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time List. Later in the episode, they are joined by their Rolling Stone colleague Mankaprr Conteh to dig into the star's artistry and appreciation for Black music history, which she continues to embed in all her work.
00:00 Introduction to the Podcast and Beyoncé's Impact
00:15 Diving Deep into Beyoncé's Hits on the List
01:34 Beyoncé's Solo Debut and the Making of Crazy in Love
05:20 Destiny's Child: The Foundation of Beyoncé's Success
08:10 Beyoncé's Solo Career and Artistic Evolution
11:07 Exploring Beyoncé's Musical and Cultural Influence
11:59 Beyoncé and Jay Z: A Power Couple in Music
20:07 Guest Insights: Mankaprr Conteh on Beyoncé's Legacy
30:25 Concluding Remarks on Beyoncé's Ongoing Influence
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  • @marianar2948
    @marianar294828 күн бұрын

    Yeah I couldn't agree more with was said at 16:10! Beyoncé is indeed a music nerd 🤓 and it's still necessary to highlight that. Beyoncé has far more artistic education and transgressive guts than what appears at surface. I think that - more so than her performing abilities or public persona etc. - is what granted her so much longevity. Her intelligent and curiosity about music are the ingredients that have kept her from being generic and stale. Not many musicians take that risk and that's commendable! 👏

  • @iancomplexatnight
    @iancomplexatnightАй бұрын

    Rob has such an iconic voice man!

  • @marianar2948
    @marianar294828 күн бұрын

    Overall this was a great debate! I would have loved if more attention was given to B Day because I do think that's when Beyoncé started to be a bit more rebellious and shape her image - by recording it in secret, making videos for all of the songs, choosing sounds that weren't necessarily trendy, etc. But maybe in the future fans can be more enthusiastic about that era 😊

  • @gregdahlen4375
    @gregdahlen4375Ай бұрын

    i'd go watch the video although right now I'm concentrating on music not in English all my life I've listened to music in English so it's been fun lately to listen to non-English

  • @gregdahlen4375
    @gregdahlen437529 күн бұрын

    was surprised to hear many artists intrigued by destiny's child. i woulda guessed they perceived as lightweight, just based on my feeling about them, not having listened to them that i know of

  • @rayshawnphoenix2135

    @rayshawnphoenix2135

    27 күн бұрын

    I was gonna say something but then read the last part of your post which stated that you didn’t listen to them, well that’s kinda what happens when you make assumptions about things…

  • @gregdahlen4375

    @gregdahlen4375

    27 күн бұрын

    @@rayshawnphoenix2135 well I made a "guess" quite different than an assumption but anyway what were you going to say? r u a fan of destiny's child?

  • @JZidor
    @JZidor29 күн бұрын

    The other girls have names I hate when ppl do that this why we’ll nvr get a DC5 letoya and latavia and Farrah but we don’t count her carry on

  • @ashrick718
    @ashrick71829 күн бұрын

    this man don’t know wtf he talkin bout 🤣🤣 . First of all “Independent Women” & “Bootylicious” dropped in 2001, “Crazy in Love” was 2003; not in the same timeframe of her debut solo era. Also, the “Lemonade Tour” was called the Formation World Tour & she did not do perform a DC medley on that tour; she performed “Bootylicious” within “Crazy In Love”. .. that tour she was on when she said “10 years ago, was ‘The Beyoncé Experience’ (2007).

  • @marianar2948

    @marianar2948

    28 күн бұрын

    I'm sorry but you're choosing to misinterpret him... - A timeframe is composed by any stretch of years, so he can absolutely refer to the release of the aforementioned singles as a timeframe, especially because they pertain to Beyonce's transition from the group to a solo act - many fans refer to the promotion tour of an album by the name of album and not the tour's name. It's not precise but still perfectly understandable - a song juxtaposed with another constitutes a medley and interludes, albeit different, can serve the same purpose - Beyoncé said that as an indicator, give it or take two years. That, especially in retrospect, doesn't make the math incorrect. Again, it's just a time frame for an era, she clearly was not trying to pinpoint an especific year. She was just trying to thank her long standing fans. Overall this video is very interesting and well researched, some minor mishaps don't take away from the validity of what they're saying... Would you like if someone was this much picky with you? I'm sure not, because we're all Beyonce fans just enjoying solid content about her. Let's be glad for some insightful convos and reserve our criticism for more pertaining stuff 😉 cheers and have fun with Cowboys Carter!

  • @ashrick718

    @ashrick718

    28 күн бұрын

    @@marianar2948 “Cowboys Carter” ???? 🧐 giiirl … there’s the door 🚪 I said what I said. I’m the one that wrote “timeframe”, he said those songs came out the same year, which was incorrect. Having another song mixed into a different song for a performance isn’t a medley. He specifically said she did a DC medley, which she didn’t do! She performed two seconds of ONE DC song on the Formation World Tour. The last tour she did a DC medley on was the Beyoncé Experience (2007), where she said the 10 years ago speech, as I said. I loved the video & their discussion about the Living Legend Beyoncé, but I’m going to correct any misinformation I hear. & that’s okay.

  • @rayshawnphoenix2135

    @rayshawnphoenix2135

    27 күн бұрын

    ⁠@@marianar2948you wrote an entire thesis and you’re just loud & wrong & in Layman’s terms spewing nonsense to sound intelligent. The op was right the man was wrong spreading false information. I just know you’re annoying in real life 😂

  • @acrux739

    @acrux739

    18 күн бұрын

    y'all be so annoying

  • @ashrick718

    @ashrick718

    17 күн бұрын

    @@acrux739 & u “be” so poor!

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