Poker has been an inspiration for songwriters and singers for years – from Kenny Rogers belting out “The Gamber” to Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” to O.A.R’s “That Was A Crazy Game Of Poker.” Even Garth Brooks weighed in on the topic with “Two of a Kind, Workin’ on a Full House” and Johnny Cash references discovering his father in a poker sport within the basic “A Boy Named Sue.”
Now you’ll be able to add Beyonce to that record of artists singing about some card enjoying. The 32-time Grammy winner introduced a brand new album as a part of a Super Bowl advert on Sunday and in addition dropped a brand new monitor within the course of known as “Texas Hold’em.”
Poker & Texas Lyrics
The country-tinged tune gives some new territory for Beyonce with “Hold’em” that includes banjo and acoustic guitar. Noted North Carolina folks and nation performer Rhiannon Giddens supplied the banjo enjoying on the monitor.
“Texas Hold ’em” is seen by some as an homage to Beyonce’s hometown of Houston, Texas. The track makes quite a few references to issues some would possibly see as synonymous with the Lone Star State together with nation dancing (as in a hoedown), whiskey, and extra. Obviously, Texas Hold’em can be a part of the track and the refrain contains the traces:
“This ain’t Texas,
Ain’t no hold ’em,
So lay your cards down, down, down, down.”
Whether Beyonce is a poker participant herself isn’t recognized, however she does put on a cowboy hat within the picture accompanying the brand new track on YouTube. By Wednesday morning, “Hold ‘em” had already been seen practically 4 million instances between the official lyric and visualizer movies.
The new album, titled Act II, is predicted to be an entire country-themed work. Beyonce’s new sound has obtained some combined response amongst these within the nation music business, nevertheless. While some have welcomed “Queen Bey” to the style, a station in Oklahoma recently refused to play the song.
