ennazus
Lady in Waiting
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Post by ennazus on Feb 20, 2024 22:36:28 GMT -4
I also am not a fan of country music, but I remember enjoying “Daddy Lessons”, the song she did with The Chicks. So I’ll have to give a listen to “Texas Hold ‘Em”.
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Post by boricuamusicfan on Feb 21, 2024 4:11:04 GMT -4
The gatekeepers and pearl-clutching, low-key racist trolls that still think Beyoncé should stay in her lane are not gonna be happy: despite some country radio stations being hesitant to play her new ditties at first, audience response has been overwhelmingly positive. “Texas Holdem” and “16 Carriages” have debuted on Billboard's Hot Country Songs at # 1 and # 9 respectively. And the former starts at # 2 on the Hot 100 (the magazine's main, all-genre chart); based on the initial call out scores and streaming/sales numbers, it is expected to ascend to # 1 next week. She becomes the first black woman ever to have a # 1 hit on the Hot Country Songs chart, and the first woman ever to have topped both the country charts AND the R n B/Hip Hop charts since those lists' inception.
Hey, if Taylor Swift can make pop music successfully, why can't Beyonce make country music successfully? And she has.
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Post by americanchai on Feb 21, 2024 7:51:55 GMT -4
She's from Texas, ferchrissake. Her husband has publicly cheated on her. Her life is definitely a country song or two. Country music gatekeeping is all about racism, god knows it's not about music quality.
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Post by lordofthefries on Feb 21, 2024 13:39:56 GMT -4
I think "16 Carriages" is such a gorgeous song, and I love Beyonce branching out and exploring a new sound. Growth and following your muse is what all musicians should aspire to, and Beyonce has much as right to country music as the Dukes of Hazzard guy trying to gatekeep her out.
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phillipa
Lady in Waiting
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Nov 14, 2022 12:55:00 GMT -4
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Post by phillipa on Feb 21, 2024 14:26:25 GMT -4
I have a passing interest in country, I like some of it. I don't really go for the type that Bo Burnham made fun of, the songs that repeat, "Dirt road, cold beer, I love Jesus and my red pickup" ad nauseum ad infinitum. But The Brothers Osbourne are a lot of fun. And having been line dancing a couple of times, I predict "Texas Hold 'Em" is going to become a staple of all line dance nights ever, so David Duke of Hazzard better get used to it.
And if either Texas Hold 'Em or 16 Carriages had been sung by Carrie Underwood they'd be practically guaranteed to be Song of the Year at the CMA awards.
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Post by ikmccall on Feb 21, 2024 18:56:19 GMT -4
He couldn’t make it in the country music business and he doesn’t want her to be successful in country music.
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hamhock
Sloane Ranger
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Post by hamhock on Feb 21, 2024 19:19:09 GMT -4
Apparently, there's a chunk of these racist country assholes who've never heard of Charlie Pride.
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Post by seat6 on Feb 21, 2024 21:21:25 GMT -4
For anyone who is interested in the history of Black people or POC in country music, there are two scholars (probably more, but these are the ones I know of!) currently working on this very subject. They've both been interviewed on NPR in the past week. Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions Dr. Francesca T. Royster's book, published in 2022 Beyoncé's 'Texas Hold 'Em' adds to a long legacy of Black women in country music interview with Dr. Francesca Royster And I learned today that Beyoncé is the first Black woman to enter the Billboard Top 100 Country chart at number 1. (I think I have that right. The different charts are confusing!)
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Post by boricuamusicfan on Feb 22, 2024 2:26:28 GMT -4
For anyone who is interested in the history of Black people or POC in country music, there are two scholars (probably more, but these are the ones I know of!) currently working on this very subject. They've both been interviewed on NPR in the past week. Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions Dr. Francesca T. Royster's book, published in 2022 Beyoncé's 'Texas Hold 'Em' adds to a long legacy of Black women in country music interview with Dr. Francesca Royster And I learned today that Beyoncé is the first Black woman to enter the Billboard Top 100 Country chart at number 1. (I think I have that right. The different charts are confusing!)
Not just the first black woman to debut at # 1 on that chart (currently called "Hot Country Songs"); the first black woman to ever have a # 1 hit on this particular Billboard tally. |
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Post by americanchai on Feb 22, 2024 6:18:15 GMT -4
Billboard's charts have never made sense - the way they parse out categories. If something's popular, it should be popular across everything, right?
Anyway, good for her. F*** the haters. They will not give her any awards at the CMAs though - so don't even think about it Kanye. Though that would be fun for a news cycle.
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