On Sunday, Beyonce lastly took residence the award for Album of the 12 months for her nation music mission, “Cowboy Carter.” Nevertheless, some of us within the nation group are usually not right here for her win and so they’re sounding off about it on social media.
As we beforehand instructed you, Bey additionally took residence the award for Greatest Nation Album and Greatest Nation Duo Efficiency (for her track with Miley Cyrus) alongside her main AOTY win. This feat comes after many years of music and controversial snubs from the Grammys of a few of her greatest work like “Renaissance” and “Lemonade,” let her die-hard followers inform it. It additionally comes after the main public name out the Recording Academy obtained again in 2024 from her hubby Jay-Z.
Nevertheless, seeing her take residence the award she’d been striving for for an album that wasn’t even in her “conventional” style was sufficient to make some conservatives and nation music followers seethe with anger and confusion and so they didn’t maintain again on expressing their emotions.
Beyonce’s Win is a “Slap within the Face” to Nation Artists
As Lauren Oakes famous on TikTok, seeing the Houston singer take over and safe the win over nation artists like Kacey Musgraves and Lainey Wilson was a slap within the face to staple Nashville artists who’ve been on the scene and “devoted their lives” to this artwork kind.
“[I] didn’t hate her album, I simply don’t assume it’s nation music. She’s not in Nashville, she doesn’t come to Nashville aside from on a tour date. The folks which might be right here or their in nation music, they’re residing and respiratory it,” she mentioned. “They’re within the bars in Nashville, they’re selling their music. They’re in Texas, they’re using horses. They’re doing stuff that’s the lifeblood of nation music. This can be a political, rigged, factor and it’s actually exhausting to observe the Grammys now.”
Beyonce Is Simply Grasping for Extra Cash, Fame, Recognition by Going Nation
TikTok consumer Rachel questioned whether or not the “II Most Wished” singer solely took a foray into the nation music area as a result of she needed extra money and fame. She known as her AOTY win “disgusting” and “ridiculous” earlier than asking for Bey and her album to go away and wishing for her to go bankrupt.
Beyonce’s Win Was “DEI,” “Cultural Appropriation” and Extra
Over on X/Twitter, sentiments have been extra of the identical.
“GTFOH with Beyonce profitable nation album of the 12 months. No means did that outperform Put up Malone or Chris Stapleton,” wrote one consumer.
“W T F? Beyonce is NOT nation. The album is pop rubbish with assless chaps, a cowboy hat, and nothing even near actual nation music. Not less than the true County Music Awards didn’t nominate her album. The one motive that it offered was her hubby paid for it to be performed on repeat,” mentioned one other.
Added one other consumer, “She put out a supposed nation album. It will get zero air time, at the least on the nation stations I take heed to. This can be a PR transfer to make Beyoncé appear healthful and All-American. That means when her reference to Diddy and his events is whispered about, nobody will imagine it.”
“Yikes; #DEI anybody….or is that this a case of cultural appropriation? #Beyoncé received greatest nation album for the history-making “Cowboy Carter,” prompting an enormous standing ovation. Amongst Nashville devoted, a wtf second. Has she even been on a horse? Performed the Opry?,” mentioned one other.
“Oh HELL NAH!! Beyoncé finished bought ‘Nation Album Of The 12 months’ just because she made ONE midway nation album, that had ONE hit track. What the hell sort of affirmative motion/range/participation trophy bullshit is THAT. Oh and Jay Z groomed her from her teen years. Keep on,” one different consumer wrote.