With simply 10 days to go till her new album “Act 2: Cowboy Carter” arrives, Beyoncé has revealed that the report happened after she went by way of an expertise the place she did “not really feel welcomed.”

In a prolonged publish on Instagram, the singer wrote that the thought for the extremely anticipated follow-up to “Renaissance” was hatched after she was concerned in an unnamed incident. “It was born out of an expertise that I had years in the past the place I didn’t really feel welcomed… and it was very clear that I wasn’t,” she stated. “However, due to that have, I did a deeper dive into the historical past of Nation music and studied our wealthy musical archive.”

Although she doesn’t title the incident itself, it’s possible that she’s referring to her efficiency of “Daddy Classes” on the Nation Music Awards alongside Dixie Chicks in 2016. Again then, she confronted criticism from the nation neighborhood together with artists who dismissed her as merely a pop artist.

“The criticisms I confronted once I first entered this style pressured me to propel previous the constraints that had been placed on me,” she wrote. “Act II is a results of difficult myself and taking my time to bend and mix genres collectively to create this physique of labor.”

Beyoncé says that she started work on “Act 2” 5 years in the past, and that she has a number of surprises in retailer for the album together with a number of collaborations. “I hope you could hear my coronary heart and soul, and all of the love and keenness that I poured into each element and each sound,” she wrote. “I centered on this album as a continuation of RENAISSANCE…I hope this music is an expertise, creating one other journey the place you may shut your eyes, begin from the start and by no means cease.”

She ended her publish with a daring assertion: “This ain’t a Nation album. This can be a ‘Beyoncé’ album.”

Beyoncé first entered this new period in the course of the Tremendous Bowl in February, when she dropped a pair of singles—”Texas Maintain ‘Em” and “16 Carriages”—that sparked dialog in regards to the origins of nation music. Shortly after, she turned the primary Black lady to prime Billboard’s Nation Songs chart after “Texas” debuted on the summit. Collaborators on the singles included Raphael Saadiq, Robert Randolph and Rhiannon Giddens. Dolly Parton not too long ago recommended that Beyoncé could have coated or interpolated her 1973 hit “Jolene” for a music, although it’s unclear if that can find yourself on the venture.

“Act 2: Cowboy Carter” is slated for launch on March 29. Learn the total publish under.