This freewheeling embrace of the singer’s roots was also a triumphant reclamation of a genre that had long shunned its Black origins
’s origin story into the album’s opening track, Ameriican Requiem. Against a psychedelic country-gospel backdrop that unfolds with both determination and frustration, she establishes her southern roots – Alabama, Texas, Louisiana – but notes this background hasn’t always been respected: “Used to say I spoke too country / And the rejection came, said I wasn’t country ’nough.”
Ameriican Requiem touches directly on this exclusion, pointing out the failed promise of the American experiment and the superficial good manners that uphold the racist status quo: “You change your name, but not the ways you play pretend.” But this gatekeeping only galvanised
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