Listening to “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” today, it’s hard to believe there was a time when Shaboozey’s massive crossover single didn’t exist. Built around an interpolation of J-Kwon’s 2004 house-party hit “Tipsy” and an acoustic strum-clap rhythm, the song has become more than a hit: It’s a pop-culture milestone. In his digital cover story for Rolling … Read more
Back in 2024, Shaboozey met Rolling Stone for coffee in Nashville. It was just a few weeks before Beyoncé revealed the track list for her country project, Cowboy Carter, and at the time, he was keeping it a secret that he had worked with Beyoncé at all. He also didn’t even know if his contributions … Read more
S haboozey needs a tissue. Unfortunately, we’re on a postage-stamp-sized stage in a country bar called Losers, in the middle of the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas, doing a live interview with lights, cameras, and 100 or so invited guests in front of us, and a casino full of rowdy gamblers behind us. There … Read more
Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Taylor Swift writes an ode to a beloved Toy Story character for the series’ fifth installment, Flo choose girl power over a flighty lover on an R&B showstopper, and Shaboozey returns … Read more
The song will appear on the musician’s forthcoming album, The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales Shaboozey dropped a new single, “Cowboy,” along with a cinematic music video for the track. The video, directed by Shaboozey and Logan Meis, stars Summer House‘s Ciara Miller as a woman seeking revenge in the old West. “The … Read more