Dolly PartondefendedBeyoncéamidbacklashfor making country music. Dolly praised Beyoncé’s redemption of“Jolene”, opening up about theCountry Music Awards’ decision to snub Queen Bey’s 2024Cowboy Carteralbum. The awards ceremony’s cold shoulder follows Beyoncé’s eighth studio album breaking streaming records on several platforms.
Controversy unfolded following the 58th Annual Country Music Association Awards’ (CMA) decision not to nominateBeyoncéandCowboy Carter, as well as the lead single“Texas Hold ‘Em”, despite it topping charts worldwide.
As a result,country music legend Dollywas questioned about CMA’s highly debated choice to snub Beyoncé.
“I’ve been fortunate enough to be on both those albums,” Dolly toldVarietyon Tuesday (September 17).
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Dolly Parton defended Beyoncé amid backlash for making country music
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Cowboy CarterfeaturesBeyoncé‘s version of Dolly’s iconic 1973 hit“Jolene”. Moreover, Dolly duetted on the album’s“Dolly P”and“Tyrant”.
“Well,‘Jolene’was in Beyoncé’s, and I thought that was a great album,”Dollysaid. “She’s a country girl in Texas and Louisiana, so she grew up with that base. It wasn’t like she just appeared out of nowhere.”
On CMA’s controversial decision to excludeBeyoncé, the 78-year-old philanthropist said: “Well, you never know.
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“There’s so many wonderful country artists that, I guess probably the country music field, they probably thought, well, we can’t really leave out some of the ones that spend their whole life doing that.
“But I didn’t even realize that until somebody asked me that question. But it was a wonderful album.
“She can be very, very proud of, and I think everybody in country music welcomed her and thought that that was good.
Dolly praised Beyoncé’s redemption of “Jolene”
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“So I don’t think it was a matter of shutting out, like doing that on purpose. I think it was just more of what the country charts and the country artists were doing, that do that all the time, not just a specialty album.”
Dollywent on to reveal that she would enthusiastically accept duetting“Jolene”live with Beyoncé, stating: “Oh yeah. I’m open to anything.”
But despite this success,Cowboy Carterwas given limited promotion on country radio stations, which is more important in shaping the industry’s preferences than mainstream avenues, according toThe Guardian.
Dolly also opened up about the Country Music Awards’ decision to snub Queen Bey’s 2024Cowboy Carteralbum
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In February, a country music radio station in theUSAmade headlines after it initially refused to play a listener’s Beyoncé request, but added her tracks to rotation after a huge online backlash, the British news outlet reported.
African Americans fail to receive credit for their creativity in engineering the sounds we know and love as country music, the publication argued.
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The Crimsonfurther pointed out that some of the most widely recognized country performers, like Shania Twain and Keith Urban, are not from the USA and have no heritage connected to the American South, yet they face no backlash for their country music.
The awards ceremony’s cold shoulder follows Beyoncé’s eighth album studio breaking streaming records on several platforms
Beyoncé reportedly said thatCowboy Carterwas born out of an experience in which she “did not feel welcomed … and it was very clear that I wasn’t. But, because of that experience, I did a deeper dive into the history of country music and studied our rich musical archive.”
However, one of Beyoncé’s collaborators onCowboy Carter,the singer Shaboozey, is nominated for Best New Artist and Single of the Year with“A Bar Song (Tipsy)”, which has been the number one country song for the past 12 weeks and also topped the Hot 100 chart for eight,The Guardianreported.
Shaboozey is the first Black male artist to top the country chart and the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously. Winners of the CMAs will be announced at a ceremony broadcast live onABCon 20 November.
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