Submit Malone has made himself an indispensable visitor vocalist these days. The Texas musician, who launched his personal album Austin final yr, is displaying up on the 2 largest LPs of the yr. In Could, he’ll seem on “Fortnight,” the opening observe of Taylor Swift‘s The Tortured Poet’s Division, and now followers can hear him dueting with Beyoncé on “Levii’s Denims.”
The tune, off her new album Cowboy Carter, sees the Texas natives becoming a member of forces to pay tribute to Levi’s, a denim model made well-known by cowboys. “You name me fairly little factor/ And I like to show him on,” Beyoncé croons on the sultry tune. “Boy, I’ll allow you to be my Levii’s denims/ So you possibly can hug that ass all day lengthy/ Come right here, you horny little factor/ Snap an image, deliver it on/ Oh, you would like you have been my Levii’s denims/ Means it’s poppin’ out your cellphone.”
Malone responds, “Like it whenever you tease me in them denims, woman, you don’t want designer/ And when that factor on hydroplane, child woman, you the pilot.”
“Levii’s Denims” will not be Malone’s first foray into nation music. In November, he made his CMA Awards efficiency debut alongside Morgan Wallen and Hardy. The musicians showcased a medley of Nineties nation songs by Joe Diffie, together with “John Deere Inexperienced” and “Pickup Man.”
Lately, he’s additionally coated modern nation songs like Brad Paisley’s “I’m Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin’ Tune)” and Sturgill Simpson’s “You Can Have the Crown,” and stone-cold classics like Hank Williams’ “There’s a Tear in My Beer” and Johnny Money’s “Cocaine Blues” (onstage with Billy Strings in 2022).
This yr, Malone will take his nation tribute act to the dwell stage subsequent yr as one of many key performers at Stagecoach pageant in Indio, California. Set for April 26 by means of 28 on the Empire Polo Membership in Indio, California (the positioning of Coachella), Stagecoach 2024 will characteristic Eric Church, Miranda Lambert, and Morgan Wallen as headliners, with Malone slated to play his covers set on Saturday, a day that additionally contains Willie Nelson, Luke Grimes, and Texas stalwarts Asleep on the Wheel.
The singer lately carried out a mushy, acoustic rendition of “America the Lovely” on the Tremendous Bowl (which was notably attended by Swift). Malone spoke to Apple Music forward of the efficiency and mentioned working with Swift, saying “She’s so cool, so candy, and so variety and proficient. She hit me up and mentioned, ‘Let’s do it’ and I mentioned, ‘Hell yeah.’ It was wonderful.”
