Beyoncé snobbery, again, to the prizes of country music

Here we come back. Beyoncé was again snobbery at Country Music Awardsthe most important prizes of country music. The 2025 edition of the event will be held on May 8 at the Ford Center in Frisco, Texas, but the nominations have already been revealed. Among the candidates does not include the name of the pop diva, already excluded a year ago despite the success of his album “Cowboy Carter”, with which he ventured with the country.

The exclusion comes after Beyoncé’s triumph with “Cowboy Carter” at the latest edition of the Grammy Awards: in February the album won the statuettes as “Album of the year” and “Best Album Country”. And in the United States there are already those who return to talk about.racist shadowsrather than artistic choices, behind the exclusion of the former Destiny’s Child and its album. “There are more white in America and unfortunately they do not vote on the basis of the skill and successes of those who are competing“, The star of the star, Matthew Knowles had thundered last year.

With “Cowboy Carter” Beyoncé wanted to reiterate how the country is not a bond of white culture. A debate around the theme had already opened last year when a fan of the singer published on X the response of an Oklahoma Country radio broadcaster, Kykc, to whom he had asked to play “Texas Hold ‘EM”: “We don’t play Beyoncé because we are a country music station“, The response of an employee, interpreted as a political position.

In reality, the same employee subsequently claimed not to be aware, until then, that one of the largest pop stars in the world had published a single country. The tweet pushed the fans of the singer to mobilize by declaring war on radio stations that refused to transmit the diva, accused of being.Guardian of a stereotype according to which the genre must be the exclusive prerogative of the white artists (After all, universal research also confirms this: a recent study by the School of Information Studies of the University of Ottawa on Olre 11 thousand songs broadcast by Radio Country from 2002 to 2020 revealed that only 3% of the songs played had been engraved by black artists – and of this 3% two thirds were male solo artists).

In the end, Kykc had found himself transmitting “Texas Hold ‘EM”that a week after the exit has become the Beyoncé’s first song to appear in Billboard’s Airplay Country rankingbeyond Debutta in the first place of the Hot Country Songs Chart. There was no lack of positions. Like that of the Country singer -songwriter Luke Bryan, among the new generation stars, who had claimed that Beyoncé had not received No recognition in the country area because it had not yet integrated enough into the country music industry in a broader sense. Beyoncé, for its part, explained that she had “cowboy Carter” precisely because she didn’t feel “welcome” in the panorama of country music: “It was very clear that I was not. But, thanks to that experience, I made a deeper immersion in the history of country music and I studied our rich musical archive. It is nice to see how music can combine so many people all over the world, while amplifying the voices of some of the people who have dedicated so much part of their lives to educate on our musical history“.

Among the artists who have obtained multiple nominations at the Country Music Awards 2025, six in all, there are the songwriters Cody Johnson and Morgan Wallen and the songwriters Ella Langley and Lainey Wilson: two men and two women, but all white. “We hoped that it was nominated? Of course. We are happy that Beyoncé is part of the country genre,” the CEO of the Academy of Country Music Damon Whiteside commented in Billboard, adding that Beyoncé has “an open invitation to get on our stage every time she wants”.