Producer of Beyoncé’s ’16 Carriages’ reveals ‘Cowboy Carter’ was made before ‘Renaissance’
nme.comBeyoncé‘s hit ’16 Carriages’ has revealed that her forthcoming country album ‘Cowboy Carter’ was made before ‘Renaissance’, despite the latter being released first.Atia ‘Ink’ Boggs said in a new interview that ’16 Carriages’ was the first song she had worked on with Beyoncé, but it saw the light of day much later than the three songs she worked on from ‘Renaissance’.“So a lot of people don’t know, we actually had this first,” she explained on the Acknowledge YouTube series. “So imagine having this timeless, classic music first and having to wait, and then she came up with ‘Act I’.”Boggs said that she first started working with Beyoncé in 2020 and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic influenced the direction of the music they worked on and how it was eventually released.“So we came out of being isolated, back into the world from no parties to finally expressing ourselves,” she continued.
On the subject of her pivot to country, Boggs said: “And it’s like, baby, we don’t do just one thing we do everything and we do it well.
That’s what she’s letting you know. This is her southern roots, this is her Texas roots.”The producer reiterated that the change in direction demonstrates that Beyoncé can’t be put in a box. “Representation matters, that sound matters.
This sound is Black music, this is what we started,” she said. “’16 Carriages,’ that was one of my favorite songs I’ve ever made and produced in all of my life.
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