Beyoncé drops ‘Cowboy Carter’ and hold on to your horses, because it’s a lot

Queen Bey’s new “Act II - Cowboy Carter” has arrived, and Post Malone, Miley Cyrus, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson and Linda Martell are some of the artists to appear.

They say you can take the girl out of the country, but you apparently can’t take the country out of the girl. Houston native Beyoncé dropped her eagerly awaited album “Act II: Cowboy Carter” Thursday night, and it will definitely take some time to digest. Part of the anticipation and internet guessing game has been decoding which stars joined her on the album. We now know they include Post Malone, Miley Cyrus, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson and Bey’s six-year-old daughter Rumi Carter. She released the tracklist Wednesday which had 27 items on it. Some of those are interludes as opposed to full tracks. And while she previously declared “This ain’t a Country album. This is a ‘Beyoncé’ album,” the new music is being embraced as country and is expected to bring new eyes and ears to the genre as well as continued conversation about diversity in that space.