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Grammar: When to Use Do, Does, and Did

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• 12th August 2022

Verbs are essential to creating complete sentences, as they help us express physical actions ( She jumped in the puddle) , mental actions ( He thought about puppies) , and states of being ( I am hungry) .

There are several types of verbs that can each be written in different tenses, so they can be tricky to work with, especially if English isn’t your first language . We’ve put together a guide to help you use one of the most common verbs, do , in your writing . Read on below to learn more!

Action Verbs

As the name suggests, action verbs are used to express actions completed by the subject of a sentence. The base verb do is conjugated according to the tense:

1. Present Tense

In the present tense, do takes the form do or does, depending on the subject:

Consider the following examples:

We do our homework every night.

   She does her homework every night.

2. Past Tense

In the simple past tense , the base verb do takes the form did with all subjects:

   We did our homework last night.

   She did her homework last night.

Auxiliary Verbs

Auxiliary , or helping verbs, are used with another base verb to create negative sentences, questions, or add emphasis. Here’s how do should be used as an auxiliary verb:

1. Negative Sentences

Following the same subject–verb pairings introduced above, we combine the auxiliaries do , does , and did with the adverb not to create negative sentences:

   We do not do our homework every night.

   She did not do her homework last night.

Note that we can combine the auxiliary and the adverb to create the contractions don’t , doesn’t , and didn’t . You simply remove the space between the two words and replace the letter o in not with an apostrophe (’).

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Contractions are more common in conversations and informal writing and typically shouldn’t be used in formal writing (e.g., academic or business).

2. Questions

To create questions, the auxiliary is combined with the infinitive of another verb in this way: auxiliary verb + subject + infinitive verb .

●  Simple present questions:

Do they sell children’s books?

Does he speak English?

Note that the third person verb speaks isn’t spelled with the s when paired with the auxiliary to form a question.

●  Simple past questions:

Did you buy anything at the bookstore?

Did he learn how to speak English?

Note that did indicates the past tense, so the main verbs don’t also take the past tense (i.e., bought and learned ).

3. Emphasis

In positive sentences, we can also combine the auxiliaries do , does , and did with the main verb to emphasize that something is true:

   We do sell children’s books.

   He did learn to speak English.

Try saying these sentences aloud and adding emphasis to the auxiliary terms with your tone. It adds a dramatic effect!

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do in English – auxiliary and main verb

Is do an auxiliary or a main verb.

The verb do can be an auxiliary verb or a main verb in English.

1. do as a main verb

1.1. do as a main verb in simple present (do, does, don't, doesn't), 1.2. do as a main verb in simple past (did, didn't), 1.3. do as a main verb – past participle (done), 1.4. do as a main verb (present progressive, gerund, present participle) – (doing), 2. do as an auxiliary, 2.1. do as an auxiliary in negations in the simple present.

I do n't do my homework in the evenings.*

2.2. do as an auxiliary in negations in the Simple Past

I did n't do my homework yesterday evening.**

2.3. do as an auxiliary in quesions in the Simple Present

Do you like rugby? – Does he like rugby?

2.4. do as an auxiliary in quesions in the Simple Past

Did you see Peggy yesterday? When did you get up this morning?

2.5. do with the negative imparative

Do n't sing under the shower.

* Here we use do in the negative sentence as an auxiliary and do as a main verb .

** Here we use did in the negative sentence as an auxiliary and do as a main verb .

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Has she been doing her homework yet? Questions with past perfect continuous and "yet"?

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• Nov 21, 2011

Greetings, I've got questions and I’d like your help on how to solve them. We are currently learning about the Present Perfect (Continuous) Tense and during class a classmate asked the professor how to translate a sentence. The professor then translated the sentence as “Has she been doing her homework yet?” The meaning we are trying to have here is that she has been doing her homework and she’s still doing it even now. Now I’d like to ask if it’s possible to use YET in PPC. I personally think it is wrong both technically and grammatically, and I would use Present Perfect "Is she still doing her homework?" or just “Has she been doing her homework?” My professor said she would investigate more about it. So she asked her friend that studied in America. That friend told her that it’s not a problem to use ‘yet’ in PPC and that maybe people don’t use it in everyday conversations but it’s not grammatically wrong. So, is it fine to use ‘yet’ even though it’s never been mentioned/used in PPC? Thank you in advance.  

Linguo IS Dead

"Has she been doing her homework yet?" doesn't make sense to me. The problem is that "yet" refers to a completed action. If you want to talk about ongoing action, you use "still". I'd think you mean either: "Has she started yet?" or "Is she still doing her homework?" From your description, it looks like you want to say both things: She started her homework at some point in the past, and now, in the present, she is still doing her homework. In other words, she started at 7:00, kept working, and at 10:00 (now), she is still working. I might describe this situation a couple of ways: - If I want to ask whether she started or not, I would say, "Has she started her homework yet?" - If I know that she started, and want to emphasize the fact that she's taking a long time, I would say, "Is she still doing her homework?", or "Has she been doing her homework this whole time?" - If I know that she started, and want to ask whether she finished or not, I would say, "Has she finished her homework yet?", or "Is she done with her homework yet?" But if you really want to ask both things: 1) whether she started and 2) whether she's still doing it, then you have to ask the question like that, in two parts: "Has she started doing her homework, and if so, is she still doing it?" Does this make sense?  

I completely agree with you. I'm also aware of the difference between still and yet in this case. I also told her in proper English I'd use either "Is she still doing her homework?" or "Has she been doing her homework?" But she insisted that 'yet' can be used and is, according to her friend, gramatically correct except not being used in everyday conversations. You've given me a very detailed reply with many circumstances. I'm very grateful for that.  

"yet" is sometimes used with continuous aspect. Examples: I haven't been swimming yet. We've not been shopping yet.  

Yes, it can be used with negative sentences like that but that wasn't what I was talking about. Thanks anyways.  

jeune linguiste said: Yes, it can be used with negative sentences like that but that wasn't what I was talking about. Thanks anyways. Click to expand...

Pertinax said: Your question was "I’d like to ask if it’s possible to use YET in PPC." It is also used in non-negative interrogative sentences: Have you been shopping yet? Click to expand...

jeune linguiste said: ... Also what is the difference between "Have you done your homework yet?" and "Have you been doing your homework yet?" Click to expand...

I don't think it is correct to say "Has she been doing her homework yet." The example of Pertinax with "Has she been shopping yet" is some kind of false analogy because of the way "Been shopping" is used in English.. You wouldn't say 'Has she shopped yet?" It's almost like a fixed expression. I agree with everything Linguo said. If you really want to ask both questions together, I think you would have to say "Did she start her homework yet and if so has she finished it?"  

jeune linguiste said: English is so complicated. The other person says it's wrong while you say it's right even though both of your native languages are English. What should a foreigner, like me, do? Click to expand...

• Nov 22, 2011

kalamazoo said: The example of Pertinax with "Has she been shopping yet" is some kind of false analogy because of the way "Been shopping" is used in English.. You wouldn't say 'Has she shopped yet?" It's almost like a fixed expression. Click to expand...

Enquiring Mind

This becomes more of a philosophical question, as grammar is just a codification of what native speakers find acceptable. We don't even know the "rules" half the time. In this case, I think we are pretty much all in agreement that we wouldn't say this. If we don't find it acceptable, then it is "ungrammatical" almost by definition. I think the main point would be that you are advised not to use this construction.  

I do not think that the construction can be considered ungrammatical, however unappealing the example above. Although uncommon, there are many examples on the internet, such as this cross-section from searching on "Have you been getting * yet?": Have you been getting ready for Christmas yet? http://www.sewinginthepast.com/2010_11_01_archive.html Have you been getting much feedback yet? http://fileslinger.com/category/online-backup/ Have you been getting enough sleep yet? http://www.myspace.com/NikLover7/comments Have you been getting much press coverage in Europe yet? http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7899 In many cases, "started" sounds better to me than "been". But "started" does not work well in all cases, e.g. the last two examples above.  

Thank you all for sharing your opinions. I see that there's a difference between grammar and its usage in everyday conversations, like in any other language.  

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Phoebe Philo Breaks Her Silence

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• March 17, 2024

The last time Phoebe Philo, who has been called “the Chanel of her generation,” gave a formal interview was a decade ago. The designer, whose work offered women respite from the limits of the male gaze, has never been all that interested in explaining herself.

“I say most of what I feel, and most of what is worth me saying, through what I make,” she offered recently. We were sitting in a blank white room in what would be her new headquarters in Ladbroke Grove in London, far from the hipster East End and the luxury stores of Bond Street. The office, still under construction, contained not a single personal item — not even a marketing photograph on the wall.

Her black nylon bomber, rounded in the shoulders and cropped above the waist, looked sort of like a small turtle shell into which she could withdraw and emerge at will. Under the bomber she wore gray pinstripe trousers and a matching oversize shirt. Her brown hair was pulled into a casual ponytail, and she wasn’t wearing any makeup. She is as disinterested in artifice as she is in oversharing.

When Ms. Philo speaks, she does so in elliptical phrases, using questions as an opening to more questions.

Though she became famous for transforming both Chloé and Celine, she walked away from the industry almost seven years ago and pretty much dropped out of sight, transformed into a myth practically overnight — the fashion unicorn whose work was an answer to questions you didn’t even realize you had.

When she returned, late last year, under her own name, she did so to sky-high expectations and with a succinct, online-only offering of practical pieces for complicated characters who are unapologetic about their idiosyncrasies and inner lives. Quite a lot like “Phoebe” herself, as she is generally referred to even by people who don’t know her, in part because her clothes make them think they know her (or she knows them, or at least knows what they want). It’s both her superpower and her curse.

Critics and fashion insiders generally loved it. It almost all sold out in hours. And then the complaining began .

It was too expensive . (The average bag price is around $5,000; the top end of the collection includes coats for $25,000.) It wasn’t surprising . You couldn’t try anything on, and the return policy was impossible. “I had the absolute worst customer experience,” said Alexandra Van Houtte, the founder of the fashion search engine Tagwalk and a Philo fan, who bought a dress on the day the brand appeared.

Which may be why, as the second delivery arrives and what Phoebe Philo-the-brand is really about comes further into focus, Phoebe Philo-the-designer has decided it is time to … well, not exactly explain herself. But at least open up a little.

Never Explain

“I don’t feel that there’s a huge amount of storytelling that needs to be done,” Ms. Philo, 50, said. The subject was Ms. Philo’s reluctance to talk: about her work, her plans, her self.

“I’m not particularly into that,” she went on. “I don’t feel myself that I need a lot of that from other fashion houses. I feel that it’s just not necessary. To a certain extent you either like it or you don’t. Someone telling me a story isn’t going to make me like it more. It is a coat. It’s a pair of trousers. I do appreciate a level of straightforwardness.”

She sipped black tea from a plain white mug.

“I never know what to expect,” Ms. Philo said of people’s reactions to her work. “I feel like, ‘Who knows?’ I don’t jump on the feedback immediately. With anything I do, I tend to naturally build in a little bit of distance, which probably is just self protection. It’s actually been something I think I’ve been practicing since childhood.

“Through some experiences, maybe friendships, relationships, I learned it can sometimes be a good idea to just keep a bit of space between your self, your inner self and sensitivities, and that stuff. In today’s world, maybe it’s a necessity.”

Ms. Philo is famously private. She has never been on X, Instagram, Facebook or TikTok. Though she lives close to her office with her husband, Max Wigram, and their three children — daughter Maya , 19, and two younger sons — her homes (she also has one in the country) have never been photographed.

Though fine-boned and fragile, she can be immovable when she wants. It’s tempting to see her tendency to lean on jargony words like “processing” and “learnings,” and her refusal to engage with the usual dance of publicity as deliberately obstructive, except that her close friends say that this is characteristic of how she interacts with the world.

“I’ve gotten used to how she communicates,” said Bella Freud, the designer, who has known Ms. Philo since she was at Chloé, and who often meets her for long walks on Wormwood Scrubs with dogs (or, when they were younger, strollers). “We rarely talk about fashion. More about thoughts, things to do with confidence, authenticity. It’s almost like she’s exploring a philosophy. I quite like the abstractness of it and not demanding to know what she means.”

Peter Miles, who worked with Ms. Philo for 10 years at Celine, and helped create the identity for the Phoebe Philo brand, agreed. “She has never wanted to give people what they want,” he said. “Or, rather, she does want to please but not in the way you expect to be pleased.”

When pushed about the groundswell of anticipation and fantasy surrounding her return, Ms. Philo sighed and stared at the wall.

“There may have been an expectation that I could have provided everything to everyone immediately,” she finally said. “And that’s just not possible. It takes time and effort to make most things that have meaning. One has to stand for something.”

What Does Phoebe Stand For?

This is how Ms. Philo describes her own work, which involves loose jeans that unzip to the rear in the back, cave man trousers and coats covered in shaggy embroidery, high-collar almost military trenches and a pillowy silk “scarf” that looks like a cross between a giant padded doughnut and a neck brace. “It’s very intuitive,” she said. “A response to what I see around me, how I see women dressing, how I feel myself, my relationship with clothes.”

She is not, she said, one of those designers who tries everything on. But she does think: Could I imagine wearing it? Will it be comfortable? How does that really feel?

Ruthie Rogers, a chef and the co-founder of the River Café in London, who has known Ms. Philo for decades, is one of the women who wears it. She said that once she discovered Ms. Philo’s Celine, “Basically, that’s all I wore,” and now she is a Phoebe Philo customer. She bought pieces from the first collection because, she said, “they are clothes for a woman who doesn’t want to be sexualized, but they don’t deny her sexuality.”

Sandra Hüller, the German actress from “Anatomy of a Fall,” is the only recognizable face in the new brand imagery, which also features a close-up of a bare belly with pregnancy stretch marks and fleshy rolls, and some shimmying feet, cut off at the knees so all you see is the dancing of leather-fringed mules.

Ms. Philo views her work as one continuous collection and does not believe in seasons, which is why she prefers the word “edit” and divides those edits into “deliveries.” (Delivery 1 of Edit 2 is on sale now, and Delivery 2 is planned to arrive at the end of March.)

When the terminology was first introduced, along with the statement that the brand intentionally made less than the anticipated demand, it was widely misinterpreted as a strategy calculated to drum up extreme consumer FOMO.

Ms. Philo said that was actually not her aim. The point was to create a base line of data to help her figure out how much she would need to produce to satisfy her market without ending up with lots of stuff to liquidate — and to encourage customers to build a coherent wardrobe slowly, over time. That’s why customers were asked to sign up via email to be alerted about deliveries.

“I don’t know why there has to be such a beginning and an end in our industry,” Ms. Philo said. “I don’t know why it can’t just be continuous.”

Well, maybe because planned obsolescence is what drives a fashion business? In today, out tomorrow, and all that?

Ms. Philo knows she has to move product. She’s not naïve, and in any case she and her husband are the majority owners of the business, so it’s her money on the line. (LVMH, the luxury group that was her employer at Celine, has a minority stake .)

“I still don’t believe it needs to be like that,” she said. “I continue to wear clothes today that I’ve had for 20 years. One of my favorite pairs of trousers is a pair of Chloé trousers I made. They’re important to me, these pieces. I don’t want to get rid of them. So what we have now is a body of work over a year, and it’s all connected.”

Her children support her work, she said, “but they’re not fans at all. My daughter has a couple of pieces. She’s really sweet. Sometimes she’ll say, ‘Oh, Mom, can I get that?’ But they don’t mention it that much. Their algorithm isn’t vibing on me.”

Doing It Her Way

When Ms. Philo left fashion, there was a general sense of mourning — and a tendency to see it as an indictment of “the system,” that amorphous force that abuses creativity in the name of commerce. After all, she was the first designer to ever take maternity leave , when she was Chloé, and at Celine she used to muse backstage about the joys of disappearing into the country. She seemed to need fashion less than fashion needed her.

“Celine was wonderful,” she said. “It was an incredibly important experience in my life.” But she wanted to live an examined life, and she didn’t think she could figure out what that might mean when she was committed to something else. The first year away, she was in the middle of moving, so she focused on that. And hanging out with her family, fielding headhunter calls. (She won’t name the brands.) She considered activism, nonprofits.

“I always tell my kids, the more you mess about, the more you find out,” she said, using a fruitier term than “mess.”

“Quite quickly, I realized that work was something I needed,” she said, “and I think I had a sense it was actually going to be within fashion,” even if she knew she didn’t want to go back to what she had done. In most big houses, designers’ jobs end at the runway. They don’t oversee the ad campaigns or the merchandising or the store design. Ms. Philo wanted to have fingers in all of that. Even if independence and a start-up meant not flying first class or having a driver or lots of orchids in the office.

“Fundamentally, that is not the stuff that makes me happy,” Ms. Philo said. The stuff that makes her happy involves baking, galleries, riding, clubbing, her family, her friends. She said she is constantly “walking the tightrope” between ensuring downtime and discovering inspiration. “Once she knows she can trust you, there are no barriers,” Ms. Rogers said.

After Ms. Rogers’s husband, the architect Richard Rogers, fell during a trip to Mexico and was in the hospital for months, Ms. Philo came over for breakfast one day wearing a big gray tweed coat Ms. Rogers admired. “She just took it off and gave it to me,” Ms. Rogers said, and refused to take it back. “It’s kept me safe and warm since.”

Edward Enninful, the former editor of British Vogue, who has been friends with Ms. Philo since they were kids in West London, said he used to bug her endlessly about when she would make men’s wear. “I always expected I would have to buy one of her women’s coats and get it tailored,” he said.

Then, just before the Fashion Awards in London last year, she presented him with a gray double-breasted suit, “just because she wanted me to feel good about myself,” he said. “I always wear black. I had never worn gray in my life, but I trusted her. It was very liberating.”

Ms. Philo knows that the usual designer trajectory is to start a bare-bones brand, show what you can do and then get the golden ring of a big job with a fat contract. But, she said, doing it the other way around was her answer to the questions: How can I do my best work? What is my potential? How can I have the most responsive relationship to the world that we’re living in today?

She won’t articulate it, exactly, but she’s effectively trying to retrain people in how to shop and how to think about what they buy.

“She’s a pioneer,” Mr. Enninful said. “And pioneers always take the heat.”

A Store, a Show: What’s Next

“My learning curve has never been greater,” Ms. Philo said. “I think people imagined that somehow we had been quietly building a huge organization, but I had maybe two members of staff. I’m involved in renting space, buying office furniture.” She currently has about 100 employees.

Mr. Miles was one of the people she contacted early on, when she was forming the idea of what her brand might be. They talked about it, he said, “for maybe two years” — about the meta issues of what it means to translate your name from something personal to something corporate; from something you own to something everyone can own.

“I toyed with the idea of made-up names,” Ms. Philo said. “Some words are satisfying to say. Some of them are really rude as well. There are really good swear words.”

But in the end, Ms. Philo said, “there was something straightforward about just using my name.”

For all her talk about not paying attention to the outside noise around her business, Ms. Philo knows some things have to change. They are working on smoothing out the returns policy, offering more ways to pay and alerting subscribers when a piece they like is back in stock. As the collections get fuller, there will be a greater range of prices, with some jersey pieces that are (relatively) more affordable. Though she isn’t apologizing for the prices.

“The intention, really, is that the pieces stick around for a while,” Ms. Philo said. “They have to be made well, and they have to be considered. And that tends to come at a price point.”

During Covid, which coincided with her planning, shopping habits had changed in a way that she saw as working to her advantage because it meant she could start without a store, but she doesn’t intend to keep it that way. By summer, she hopes to open some sort of physical space — maybe temporary, maybe not — first in New York, then in London.

There may even be a show, in time. But right now and, she said, “in today’s world, where there’s so much fashion, and so much big fashion, I try to remember that most of the big houses started with one human being who had an idea about what they wanted to do.”

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10 takeaways from Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’

On act ii, the artist subverts the strictures of genre.

Turns out country music isn’t the only sound you’ll hear at the Beyoncé rodeo. The singer’s new album, “Cowboy Carter,” dropped Friday at midnight, and it’s a big one: 27 tracks, more than 79 minutes, tons of guest stars and even Beatles and Dolly Parton covers. The record, teased with two new twangy singles after the Super Bowl, was hyped as the R&B and pop star’s first “country” full-length. It ain’t , she would later clarify: “This is a ‘Beyoncé’ album.” Undoubtedly. But it’s also a lot of album. Here’s what we’re hearing on it.

It’s much more than a ‘country’ album

I knew enough about disco, house and queer club culture to know that on 2022’s “Act I: Renaissance,” Beyoncé had done her homework, mastering the genres to which she was paying homage. I didn’t go into “Cowboy Carter” with enough country music knowledge to judge whether Beyoncé was making a good country album. As it turned out, that didn’t matter. By the time I got to “ Bodyguard ,” with its shades of Fleetwood Mac and Carole King, it was clear Beyoncé was hopping across stylistic borders. At the beginning of the 12th track of “Cowboy Carter,” country music legend Linda Martell says, “Genres are a funny little concept aren’t they? Yes they are.” The track is called “ Spaghettii ” — a reference, maybe, to Spaghetti Westerns. But I found myself thinking, “That’s what she’s doing: Throwing spaghetti at the wall!”

So what kind of album is it? It’s a journey. On “ Smoke Hour * Willie Nelson ,” you can hear the turning dial of a terrestrial radio. The album ends up feeling like a late-night road trip, where you’re tuning in to whatever station has the strongest signal. You get your country, you get your adult contemporary, you hear a Beatles song and some snippets of talk radio. And occasionally you land on a college radio station and you can’t tell if you’re misunderstanding the lyrics or if the song is just weird. Did she just say “Struds in my mouth?” Why does she keep saying “Look at that horse” over and over again? It might not be “country,” but it does nod to something quintessentially American. You take what you have, you make the most of it and you sing along. Sometimes it’s beautiful and sometimes it’s a woman saying “Look at that horse” over and over again. — S.O.

‘Blackbiird’ gives a boost to female Black country artists

One question that has come up in the country music industry: Could “Cowboy Carter” bring more attention to other Black country artists who have been working to break through in the genre? Since the release of “ Texas Hold ’Em ” and “ 16 Carriages ” after the Super Bowl, multiple Black singer-songwriters in Nashville reported that they have received a boost in streams and social media followers due to Beyoncé’s influence. Beyoncé came through with the answer in the second track, a cover of the Beatles ballad “Blackbird” (stylized as “ Blackbiird ”) that features four up-and-coming Black country singers: Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, Tiera Kennedy and Reyna Roberts. They have all been working for years in the genre — all deemed “Next Women of Country” by CMT — and were all thrilled to be included on the album. Both the song and the collaborations are significant because of the backstory: Paul McCartney has explained he was inspired to write a song during the civil rights movement of the 1960s that could bring people a sense of comfort — and that in England, a “bird” refers to a girl, so he was specifically thinking about Black women. — E.Y.

She didn’t toss all the beats from ‘Renaissance’

“Cowboy Carter” spans not only the sands of time but the strictures of genre. So after exploring country and related traditions — and relying on the stomp-clap percussion of the last decade’s folk implosion — the pull of the dance floors Beyoncé staked out on “Renaissance” gets more intense: a hint of rave synths at the end of “Texas Hold ’Em,” sleazy basslines on “Bodyguard” and “ Desert Eagle .”

Then, for the album’s last act, she brings the beat back from “Renaissance.” “ Riiverdance ” connects Irish dancing to Appalachian traditions to house music a la Crystal Waters, while “ II Hands II Heaven ” sets Western imagery — running stallions, moonlight dancing — to a galloping beat that references, improbably, Underworld’s rave favorite “Born Slippy.” — C.K.

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Dad shows up.

Beyoncé has daddy issues, okay? Not all bad ones, necessarily, but she’s laid them bare repeatedly throughout her work. In fact, fans might have Beyoncé’s father, Mathew Knowles, to thank for “Cowboy Carter,” in an indirect way. When she officially announced the album on March 19, the singer explained its genesis. “It was born out of an experience that I had years ago where I did not feel welcomed …” Though she didn’t go into further details, Beyoncé watchers believe she was referencing her 2016 performance of her zydeco-infused, country-ish song “Daddy Lessons” at the Country Music Association Awards, which was met with racist vitriol from some. That was a song about being raised tough — about how her papa taught her not to take no mess. On “Cowboy Carter,” Beyoncé continues to explore her paternal lineage with lines like this one from the album’s sweeping opener “ Ameriican Requiem ”: “I am the one to cleanse me of my father’s sins.” Later, in “ Daughter ,” close to the album’s halfway mark, Beyoncé sings a murder ballad about a superstar pushed to her brink. “They keep saying that I ain’t nothing like my father … if you cross me I’m just like my father.” What to make of all this pater chatter? Legacies — musical ones, family ones — have been a theme of Beyoncé’s music. Sometimes she’s correcting artistic history and blending genres. Sometimes she’s inserting her children into her art. One way or another, she’s always tugging at roots. — H.A.

Linda Martell got several shout-outs

Martell made history in 1969 when she became the first Black female singer to perform at the Grand Ole Opry. Martell received multiple standing ovations that night, but her record label dropped her shortly after the release of her debut album — she has spoken out through the years about the racism she endured as she toured the country. Although she left the music industry, her influence has never been forgotten, and Beyoncé features Martell on two tracks: “ Spaghettii ,” in which Martell’s voice-over kicks things off with a message to anyone fretting about whether you can blend country music with other kinds of music. “Genres are a funny little concept, aren’t they? Yes they are. In theory, they have a simple definition that’s easy to understand,” Martell says. “But in practice, well, some may feel confined.” And in the aptly titled interlude “The Linda Martell Show,” Martell introduces the next track, “ Ya Ya ,” advising listeners that it “stretches across a range of genres — and that’s what makes it a unique listening experience.” — E.Y.

Speaking of blending genres …

Beyoncé also made sure to include Willie Jones (“Just for Fun”) and Shaboozey (“Spaghettii,” “Sweet * Honey * Buckiin’”), who have both earned lots of fans in Nashville as they mix country and hip-hop. — E.Y.

It could have used some editing

For its five-year gestation, nearly 80-minute runtime and history-making ambitions, “Cowboy Carter” still feels somewhat undercooked. Why not have Willie Nelson light up and DJ KNTRY Radio Texas all night long? Songs like “ Spaghettii ” and “ Just for Fun ” don’t commit to their featured guests and their outlaw lyrics, while “ Alligator Tears ” and “ Flamenco ” fail to develop. And while “ Levii’s Jeans ” ably takes “Blow” from the roller rink to the hoedown, what does Post Malone — another country-come-lately — bring to the proceedings, other than a case of Bud Light and some Gen Z clout? — C.K.

She covers ‘Jolene’

Back in 2022, Dolly Parton explained on “The Daily Show” why she wanted Beyoncé to cover her 1973 single, “Jolene.” “I would just love to hear ‘Jolene’ done in just a big way, kind of like how Whitney [Houston] did my ‘I Will Always Love You.’ Someone that could take my little songs and make ’em like powerhouses.” Asked and answered. Beyoncé’s cover — introduced here by Dolly herself — turns Parton’s classic on its head. Instead of begging the titular hussy not to take her man, the Queen Bey’s song is a warbling warning. “Don’t take the chance because you think you can,” she sings, before letting Ms. Jolene know in no uncertain terms that Mrs. Carter is not the one: “So you don’t want no heat from me.” Whether a song about a jezebel bogeywoman feels empowering or reductive is a worthy argument to have when Beyoncé, who began dipping her toes into feminism more than a decade ago with 2013’s “***Flawless,” is at the center of the rewrite. If anything, “Jolene” feels like a long-awaited cleanup of the pile of skeletons left by 2016’s “Lemonade.” That’s when fans were first introduced to Beyoncé’s own personal Jolene, “Becky with the good hair,” a homewrecker of the highest order. Eight years later, Beyoncé and Jay-Z are happy, to go by her rewritten “Jolene” lyrics: “I know my man’s gon’ stand by me.” — H. A.

She’s thinking about her legacy

Beyoncé once sang that she wanted to leave her footprints “on the sands of time.” On “Cowboy Carter,” she’s acutely aware of whose footsteps she’s following. A radio dial time travels from Son House and Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Chuck Berry and Roy Hamilton. Living legends like Nelson and Martell testify to her bona fides. On “ Ya Ya ,” she reworks Nancy Sinatra and the Beach Boys by walking in Betty Davis’s boots.

When, in the great tradition of country music, Beyoncé covers others’ songs, she makes them into her own image, sometimes too obviously. “Blackbiird” doubles down on McCartney’s ode to the civil rights struggle, turning the leading lights of Black girl country — Spencer, Roberts and Kennedy — into Destiny’s Children (Adell, who wished upon X for a sprinkle of magic , gets her own verse). Parton connects the dots between “Becky with the good hair” and “Jolene,” but whereas her original was sung from vulnerability, Beyoncé dismisses her rival as another desperate peon. It’s the reimagining of “Landslide” as a Bonnie-and-Clyde anthem, “II Most Wanted,” that most deftly melds the past and the present. Miley Cyrus and her whiskey rasp hold their own as two pop chameleon’s ponder a day when they won’t be young. — C.K.

The album is cyclical

The final note of “Cowboy Carter” loops seamlessly back into the first track, which begins “Nothing really ends.” Like James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake,” “Cowboy Carter” was written to be an eternal loop. The album begins with a warning about the demise of America, telling us that “now is the time to face the wind.” By the end, the wind she’s singing about is the breeze in a convertible and Beyoncé (or the persona she’s inhabiting) is begging for mercy as she watches her world crumble. It’s unclear if she gets the absolution she’s asking for, since she ultimately ends up right where she began. Oof. — S.O.

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Valerie Bertinelli says she is 'doing amazing' and in a relationship

Bertinelli told "GMA" she spent the last several years building to this moment.

Bestselling author, actress and TV personality Valerie Bertinelli opened up briefly about her love life Monday on "Good Morning America" during a cooking segment where she discussed her new cookbook, "Indulge: Delicious and Decadent Dishes to Enjoy and Share."

"I am doing amazing," Bertinelli said, after "GMA" co-anchor Robin Roberts asked how she'd been lately.

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"I'll have what you're having," Roberts responded with a laugh.

"It's called a boyfriend !" Bertinelli said.

Bertinelli provided a bit more context, explaining she had spent the last several years building to this moment.

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"It's all the work I have done in the last two years to recover and really work through all of my emotional troubles and problems," she said. "And to come out the other side and be a healthier, better version of myself, a more authentic version of myself, that's what I've done -- and I met a great guy," she said.

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"I found joy first, and then a man entered my life," she continued.

She added, "My belly is flip-flopping. This was not supposed to happen."

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Tori Spelling tells Dean McDermott she filed for divorce during podcast: 'Hate to do this to you'

Tori Spelling is letting fans into a hugely personal moment in her life, by releasing audio of the moment she told Dean McDermott she has filed for divorce after almost 18 years of marriage.

The " Beverly Hills, 90210 " star, 50, debuted the first episode of her new podcast " misSPELLING " on Sunday, days after filing for divorce from McDermott. At the start of the podcast, Spelling nervously tells listeners she is about to call McDermott and inform him about the divorce filing.

"I don't know what feels more like a punch in the stomach: that it's out there and it's final, or that I have to call him right now," she says. "He's at work, you guys. This sucks."

After Spelling leaves a message, McDermott calls back about eight minutes later. Although listeners only hear one side of the phone call, Spelling says, "I hate to do this to you" while McDermott is going to work before telling him that "they've done it." He appears to express concern about the implications of her filing for divorce first.

"I feel like I deserve to file first," she tells him.

When she gets off the phone, Spelling tells listeners that her ex told her, "Great, good. I have a lawyer. I was going to do this, but cool. Saves me $500."

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The actress also shares that she has "never felt more alone in 50 years," despite being in a "room full of friends" recording a podcast. "I don't feel worth loving," she says. "That's the truth."

Spelling and McDermott had been married since 2006. The couple shares five children: Liam Aaron, 17, Stella Doreen, 15, Hattie Margaret, 12, Finn Davey, 11 and Beau Dean, 7.

The divorce filing came after McDermott revealed last year that he and Spelling were separated. He spoke about the breakdown of their relationship in an interview with the Daily Mail last year, telling the outlet his substance abuse issues were a factor. "We were roommates," he said. "Rarely, rarely, rarely did we eat together. We'd sit down and have a family meal but it was always disjointed."

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On the podcast, Spelling can be heard telling McDermott it made sense for her to file for divorce first after he "put it all out there with Daily Mail," adding that he revealed "things I would never have divulged to anybody."

Spelling later reflects on red flags in her relationship with McDermott, including his alleged "anger issues," and says their relationship was "never the same" after they started having kids. She adds that McDermott's "lack of sobriety" affected her and their children for years, although she's "really happy" that he is now sober.

"Our relationship definitely changed to the point where I felt like I was in this alone with the kids," she says.

Contributing: KiMi Robinson and Taijuan Moorman , USA TODAY

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