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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityCultureBeyoncé album is missing tracks on vinyl, fans sayPublished20 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Beyoncé’s album Cowboy Carter has been met with universal acclaim from criticsBy Mark SavageMusic correspondent, BBC NewsFans who pre-ordered Beyoncé’s latest album on vinyl are reporting that five of its tracks have gone missing.Cowboy Carter was released to critical acclaim on Friday, with reviews calling it a “masterpiece” and a “slick and starry Western epic”.But some of the best-received songs, including Ya Ya and Spaghetti, are reportedly not present on the vinyl edition.The BBC has contacted Beyoncé’s representatives for comment.”I’m so sad,” wrote one fan on Reddit, who would have paid £32 to pre-order the copy album from Beyoncé’s website.”It’s such a shame, because Ya Ya is up there with my top five favourite songs” on the album, said vinyl collectors Matt and Juan on TikTok. The songs and interludes reported missing are: Spaghetti, Flamenco, The Linda Martell Show, Ya Ya and Oh Louisiana.It is not clear whether all vinyl copies are affected. Fans have also reported that CD copies are missing four tracks.”What is up with that?! How could she sell an incomplete album?” complained one on Reddit.The likely explanation is that Beyoncé added these songs late into the album’s creation. Vinyl pressing plants are booked months in advance, with lead times of 10 weeks to six months – meaning albums have to be submitted long in advance of their release.But it also not unusual for artists to tweak track lists and arrangements at the last minute.Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Beyoncé has been wearing Rhinestones and Stetsons to signpost the country influences on her new albumFamously, Kanye West updated his 2016 album The Life Of Pablo several times after it was released, with songs updating on streaming services for weeks before he was finally satisfied.Beyoncé also modified her previous album, Renaissance, in the week after its release, by changing a lyric to remove a slur commonly used to demean people with cerebral palsy.In a press release issued on Friday, the star said Cowboy Carter had taken “over five years” to create.”It’s been really great to have the time and the grace to be able to take my time with it,” she added, explaining that it was originally supposed to come out in 2022, as the first part of a planned trilogy.Instead, she released the more dance-centric Renaissance as a response to the Covid-19 lockdown.”With the pandemic, there was too much heaviness in the world,” she said. “We wanted to dance. We deserved to dance. But I had to trust God’s timing.”Beyoncé’s country album: The verdictBeyoncé’s always been a country music fan, says dadBlack country singers: ‘We’re tolerated, not celebrated’The suggestion that Cowboy Carter had been waiting in the wings for several years caused confusion, with fans demanding to know why their physical copies were incomplete.”Address the mess. What happened?” said one, responding to a post on the official Beyoncé store Instagram account.”We need at least a discount refund, or be able to refund altogether since the CDs and vinyls delivered are not what was listed,” added a second.Image source, Parkwood / BeyoncéImage caption, An alternative cover for the album suggests it originally had a different titleMeanwhile, other fans have speculated that the star changed her album’s title late in the day.Instead of Cowboy Carter, the spine of the CD and vinyl copies is labelled “Act ii: Beyincé”.Sleuths in the Beyhive subsequently discovered that this is a reference to the star’s ancestral surname: Her maternal grandparents were called Beyincé – but the spelling was changed on her mother Tina’s birth certificate.Speaking to Heather Thompson’s In My Heart podcast in 2020, Tina said her mother, Angnéz Beyincé, had asked for the documents to be changed but was told, “Be happy that you’re getting a birth certificate”.”Black people didn’t get birth certificates. They didn’t have certificates because it meant that you really didn’t exist,” Knowles said.The story feeds into Cowboy Carter’s narrative, which deals with the marginalisation of black people in country music and the American South.It skilfully blends the sounds of country and American folk with hip-hop, pop and glistening funk, deliberately dismantling the idea of racial divides across musical genres.In her press release, Beyoncé added that the album’s organic sound was partially in response to the digital production techniques behind most modern pop albums – including her own.”With artificial intelligence and digital filters and programming, I wanted to go back to real instruments, and I used very old ones,” she said. “I didn’t want some layers of instruments like strings, especially guitars, and organs perfectly in tune. I kept some songs raw and leaned into folk. All the sounds were so organic and human, everyday things like the wind, snaps and even the sound of birds and chickens, the sounds of nature.”Related TopicsCountry musicBeyoncéMusicMore on this storyBeyoncé praised for ‘impressive’ country albumPublished1 day agoBeyoncé’s country album: The verdictPublished2 days agoBeyoncé’s always been a country music fan, says dadPublished21 FebruaryBlack country singers: ‘We’re tolerated, not celebrated’Published2 MarchTop StoriesKing greets well-wishers after Easter servicePublished5 minutes agoLive. 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![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaThe Jewish settlers who want to build homes in GazaPublished1 hour agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsIsrael-Gaza warImage caption, Settler numbers are rising fast under Benjamin Netanyahu’s governmentBy Orla GuerinBBC international correspondent, West BankWho wouldn’t want a house on the beach? For some on Israel’s far-right, desirable beachfront now includes the sands of Gaza.Just ask Daniella Weiss, 78, the grandmother of Israel’s settler movement, who says she already has a list of 500 families ready to move to Gaza immediately. “I have friends in Tel Aviv,” she says, “so they say, ‘Don’t forget to keep for me a plot near the coast in Gaza,’ because it’s a beautiful, beautiful coast, beautiful golden sand”. She tells them the plots on the coast are already booked. Mrs Weiss heads a radical settler organisation called Nachala, or homeland. For decades, she has been kickstarting Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, on Palestinian land captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war. Some in the settler movement have cherished the dream – or pipedream – of returning to Gaza since 2005, when Israel ordered a unilateral pullout, 21 settlements were dismantled and about 9,000 settlers were evacuated by the army. (Reporting from Gaza at the time, I saw many who were literally dragged out.) Many settlers saw all this as a betrayal by the state, and a strategic mistake. Opinion polls suggest that most Israelis oppose resettling Gaza, and it is not government policy, but since the Hamas attacks on 7 October it is being talked about out loud – by some of the loudest and most extreme voices in Israel’s government.Mrs Weiss proudly shows me a map of the West Bank with pink dots indicating Jewish settlements. The dots are scattered all over the map, eating away at land where Palestinians hope – or hoped – to build their state.There are about 700,000 Jewish settlers in these areas now and settler numbers are rising fast.The vast majority of the international community considers settlements illegal under international law, including the United Nations Security Council. Israel disputes this.Image caption, Daniella Weiss does not deny charges of ethnic cleansingWe meet Daniella at her home in the West Bank settlement of Kedumim, where red-roofed houses are spread over hilltops and valleys. She’s in constant motion despite having an arm in plaster.Her vision for the future of Gaza – now home to 2.3 million Palestinians, many of them starving – is that it will be Jewish.”Gaza Arabs will not stay in the Gaza Strip,” she says. “Who will stay? Jews.”She claims that Palestinians want to leave Gaza and that other countries should take them in – although in a lengthy interview, she rarely uses the word “Palestinian”.”The world is wide,” she says. “Africa is big. Canada is big. The world will absorb the people of Gaza. How we do it? We encourage it. Palestinians in Gaza, the good ones, will be enabled. I’m not saying forced, I say enabled because they want to go.”There is no evidence that Palestinians want to leave their homeland – although many may now dream of escaping temporarily, to save their lives. For most Palestinians, there is no way out. The borders are tightly controlled by Israel and Egypt, and no foreign countries have offered refuge.I put it to her that her comments sound like a plan for ethnic cleansing. She does not deny it.”You can call it ethnic cleansing. I repeat again, the Arabs do not want, normal Arabs do not want to live in Gaza. If you want to call it cleansing, if you want to call it apartheid, you choose your definition. I choose the way to protect the state of Israel. “A few days later, Daniella Weiss is selling the idea of a return to Gaza over cake and popcorn at a small gathering, hosted by another settler in their living room.She has a projector, showing a new map of Gaza, complete with settlements, and leaflets entitled “Go back to Gaza”.”People are asking me what the odds are this will happen?” she says.”What were the odds back then when I came to these dark mountains and made it into this heaven?”The handful in attendance seem already convinced. “I want to go back immediately,” says Sarah Manella. “When they call me, I will go back to Gush Katif [the former Israeli settlement bloc in Gaza].”What about the people who live there, we ask.”The area is empty now, “she replies. “Now you don’t need to think where to put the settlement, you only need to come back and put a new settlement.”Image caption, Some illegal settlements have established their own checkpointsGaza is far from empty, but much of it has been erased after almost six months of relentless Israeli bombardment.It is the “greatest open-air graveyard” in the world, in the words of the EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell.More than 32,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, most of them women and children. The World Health Organization regards the ministry’s data as credible.For some in the Israeli cabinet, the Palestinian territory – now drenched in blood – is ripe for resettlement. That includes Israel’s hard-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir – a settler himself.In late January, he made his way through a packed conference hall, slowed by embraces and handshakes. He was among friends – about 1,000 ultranationalists pushing for a return to Gaza at the event entitled Settlement Brings Security.Mr Ben Gvir, who favours “encouraging emigration”, was among a dozen cabinet ministers in attendance.”It’s time to go back home,” he said from the stage, to loud applause. “It’s time to return to the land of Israel. If we don’t want another 7 October, we need to return home and control the land.”In the shade of a sprawling tree, Yehuda Shimon is playing with his two young sons, who are in hammocks, hanging from the branches. He has raised 10 children here in a settler outpost in the West Bank called Havat Gilad, or Gilad’s Farm, near the Palestinian city of Nablus. All around him there are Palestinian villages, the nearest 500m away. There is no contact between them, he says.Image caption, Yehuda Shimon says Gaza must be JewishShimon has lived in Gaza in the past and claims a God-given right to return.”We must do it. It’s part of Israel area,” he says. “This is the land that God gave us, and you couldn’t go to God and tell him, ‘OK you gave me, and I gave to other people.’ No. I believe in the end we will go back to Gaza.”I ask what this means for the Palestinians.”They have 52 other places to go in the world,” he says, “52 Muslim countries”. He says the new Gaza will be “another Tel Aviv”.Outposts like his are multiplying in the West Bank, along with larger settlements, fragmenting Palestinian territory and stoking tension.Settler attacks on Palestinians have surged since 7 October according to the UN, which has long condemned settlements as “an obstacle to peace”.And now settler organisations have their eyes on Gaza once again.Is there a real prospect of settlers reaching the beachfront in Gaza?A seasoned Israeli journalist told me it won’t happen. “Calls to resettle Gaza won’t be translated into policy,” he said. Then he added: “Famous last words.”Related TopicsIsrael & the PalestiniansIsrael-Gaza warIsraelPalestinian territoriesWest BankMore on this storyFrance bans Israeli settlers over West Bank violencePublished13 FebruaryIsraeli settler violence brings destruction and fear to West BankPublished6 December 2023Top StoriesRussia charges four men over Moscow concert attackPublished29 minutes agoRosenberg: As Russia mourns, how will Putin react to concert attack?Published1 hour agoTriple lock for pensions stays if we win election, says HuntPublished10 hours agoFeaturesIs now the time Palestinian politics can start afresh?Did Russia ignore US ‘extremist’ attacks warning?The Brazilian teen who scored winner against EnglandAttributionSportYour pictures on the theme of ‘reflections’‘Having a certificate of loss proves my baby existed’Kate cancer diagnosis rewrites story of past weeksSimon Harris – the man on the brink of Irish history England kits ‘should connect people’From the desert to the icy waters of WalesElsewhere on the BBCWhy do people behave the way they do on social media?Marianna Spring investigates extraordinary cases of online hate to find out…AttributioniPlayerCritically acclaimed and utterly compelling…Masterful, claustrophobic drama starring Sofie Gråbøl as a troubled prison guardAttributioniPlayerFrom triumph to tragedy…After more than 30 years of service, America’s space shuttle took to the skies for the last timeAttributioniPlayerCan new evidence solve aviation’s greatest mystery?Ten years after the Malaysian Airlines flight disappeared, new technology may explain whyAttributioniPlayerMost Read1Russia charges four men over Moscow concert attack2Passenger overboard from cruise ship, firm says3Murder arrest at Heathrow after man hit by car4The Jewish settlers who want to build homes in Gaza5Boy, 12, charged with attempted murder6Avanti to pay train drivers £600 a shift for overtime7Rosenberg: As Russia mourns, how will Putin react to concert attack?8Tony Blackburn hangs up his local radio headphones9The man in the iron lung: How Paul Alexander lived life to the full10’Most unwanted’ dog finds home after four years](https://newsinsightplus.com/wp-content/uploads/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/5B18/production/_133002332_settler_flag.jpg)
