{"id":117453,"date":"2024-04-04T18:03:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T18:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/04\/paul-mccartney-says-he-and-beyonce-facetimed-about-her-version-of-blackbird\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T18:03:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T18:03:17","slug":"paul-mccartney-says-he-and-beyonce-facetimed-about-her-version-of-blackbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/04\/paul-mccartney-says-he-and-beyonce-facetimed-about-her-version-of-blackbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney says he and Beyonc\u00e9 FaceTimed about her version of &#8220;Blackbird&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-04\/M_BeyonceCowboyCarter_032824_0.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Blair Caldwell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Anyone who thinks <strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong>\u00a0isn&#8217;t happy that<strong>\u00a0Beyonc\u00e9<\/strong> has covered <strong>The<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Beatles<\/strong> classic &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xhempeEjGUA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Blackbird<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">&#8221; on her album <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Cowboy Carter <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">would be very wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI am so happy with\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1 s2\">@beyonce<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u2019s version of my song \u2018Blackbird,\u2019\u201d McCartney\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C5WHmjnNPZj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>shares on Instagram<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">. \u201cI think she does a magnificent version of it and it reinforces the civil rights message that inspired me to write the song in the first place.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He adds, \u201cI think Beyonc\u00e9 has done a fab version and would urge anyone who has not heard it yet to check it out. You are going to love it!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bey&#8217;s version of the song,\u00a0retitled \u201cBlackbiird,\u201d includes acoustic guitar and foot tapping by McCartney, taken from the original backing track he recorded back in 1968 for the Beatles&#8217; self-titled album aka <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The White Album.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">McCartney also reveals in his post that he had a FaceTime conversation with Bey about the song, noting, \u201c[S]he thanked me for writing it and letting her do it.&#8221; He says, \u201cI told her the pleasure was all mine and I thought she had done a killer version of the song.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">McCartney also shared his feelings about the song still being so relevant today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhen I saw the footage on the television in the early 60s of the black girls being turned away from school, I found it shocking and I can\u2019t believe that still in these days there are places where this kind of thing is happening right now,\u201d he continues.\u00a0\u201cAnything my song and Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s fabulous version can do to ease racial tension would be a great thing and makes me very proud.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blair Caldwell Anyone who thinks Paul McCartney\u00a0isn&#8217;t happy that\u00a0Beyonc\u00e9 has covered The\u00a0Beatles classic &#8220;Blackbird&#8221; on her album Cowboy Carter would be very wrong. \u201cI am so happy with\u00a0@beyonce\u2019s version of my song \u2018Blackbird,\u2019\u201d McCartney\u00a0shares on Instagram. \u201cI think she does a magnificent version of it and it reinforces the civil<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/04\/paul-mccartney-says-he-and-beyonce-facetimed-about-her-version-of-blackbird\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427,428,429],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}