Sep 09, 2024 07:20 PM IST
Country Music Association Awards’ disrespect for Queen Bey extended well into 2024 following the notorious 2016 controversy.
Unfortunately, the Country Music Association Awards had no plans of mending fences with Beyonce this year. The CMAs again failed to accord the “Cowboy Carter” musician with respect despite her birthing one of the year’s biggest country albums.
Queen Bey’s 2024 record, which she intentionally branded as a “Beyonce album” instead of a “Country album” ahead of its March 29 release, made history this year, spending four weeks atop the Billboard‘s Top Country Albums chart – making her the first Black woman to crack this untouchable milestone. Off the same album, her lead single, “Texas Hold Em”, also made her the first Black woman to firmly hold the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart – a feat spanning a whopping ten weeks.
Despite restarting a new chapter around Black artists’ claim to the genre, which often shunned the community from mainstream limelight, Beyonce has once again been shut out by the CMAs. One can’t help but let loose the skeletons shut deep inside the record-smashing artist’s closet when, in 2016, the same awards series shamed her for performing “Daddy Lessons” alongside Dixie Chick, pigeonholing her artistic essence to a pop artist and nothing beyond that.
Her latest album, revisiting the cultural conversations around musical roots, also presumably addressed the old heart-breaking CMAs moment, subjecting her to “criticism (she) faced when (she) first entered this genre,” as highlighted in her March Instagram post. However, the circle of artistic life again fell flat on September 9, when the nominations for the 2024 Country Music Association Awards again barred her from a well-deserved post among other candidates.
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