Is Taylor Swift part of Beyoncé’s bodyguard? Background Singing Theory Explained

March 29, 2024, 5:07 p.m. Beyoncé announces Act II with a visual teaser “Bodyguard” is one of the standout tracks from Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter, but is Taylor Swift in the credits? Did Beyoncé and Taylor Swift do a song together? The internet thinks Taylor sings backing vocals on “Bodyguard.” Ever since Beyoncé and […]

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Is Taylor Swift part of Beyoncé’s bodyguard? Background Singing Theory Explained

March 29, 2024, 5:07 p.m.

Beyoncé announces Act II with a visual teaser

“Bodyguard” is one of the standout tracks from Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter, but is Taylor Swift in the credits?

Did Beyoncé and Taylor Swift do a song together? The internet thinks Taylor sings backing vocals on “Bodyguard.”

Ever since Beyoncé and Taylor Swift appeared at their movie premieres last year, people have speculated that the two stars might have secretly been working on music together. When Beyoncé later announced that she would release a country-inspired album titled Cowboy Carterfans began to wonder if Taylor would feature in the project.

NOW, Cowboy Carter is here and there’s no official Taylor Swift collaboration on the album, but fans are convinced that “Bodyguard” features backing vocals from Taylor. They also think it could have been written by Beyoncé and Taylor together.

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“Bodyguard” is a country radio anthem in which Beyoncé sings about being so in love with someone that she could be their bodyguard. The song instantly became a fan favorite and now people have come up with a theory that Taylor can be heard doing background vocals throughout the song.

If you listen closely, the song starts with someone singing, “One, two, three, four / Ooh-ee-ooh, ah / Ooh-ee-ooh” and fans think Taylor is singing the “ah” parts . The same “ah” is then repeated at different stages of the song.

Notably, it doesn’t sound like Beyoncé and it sounds like the way Taylor sings “ah-ah-ah” in her song “I Can See You.”

Beyoncé – BODYGUARD (Official Lyric Video)

Since the theory went viral, Genius has also updated its “Bodyguard” page to credit Taylor as a backing vocalist on the song. However, it’s possible that a fan edited the page instead of Genius. The official credits of “Bodyguard” and Cowboy Carter have not yet been released.

Reacting to the theory, one person tweeted: “IT’S 100% TAYLOR SWIFT ON BODYGUARD BY BEYONCÉ, NOW GIVE ME A FULL COLLABO.”

Another wrote: “Wait, I can actually hear Taylor singing the ahhs in bodyguard…”

Since the theory started going viral on Twitter, Billboard’s executive director of music, Jason Lipshutz, appears to have shut down the speculation by simply tweeting “No” in response to a fan.

People also reported that Taylor was not featured on the song.

Looks like we’ll have to wait until Beyoncé releases the full credits for Cowboy Carter to find out exactly who wrote the song and who sings those background vocals.