Ayman: Anger over Beyoncé's new songs is part of long history of racism in country music

MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin talks about Beyoncé's new country music, why the new songs are angering conservatives and the history of racism in country music.
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#beyone #country #music

[@frederickwelham3829]

So Texas now tells people what songs they can sing as well as what books they can read. Doesn't sound much like freedom to me.

[@mowcowbell]

Republicants have never been about freedom. Compliance/control is their motto.

[@jaisonlives]

Where did you get that from?

[@wsbs520]

No books are banned No music is banned

[@iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79]

Exactly.

[@scottsthaname1]

It's Florida that's banning books... Texas bans people...👍

[@TropicalLatitude]

Beyonce is a native Texan. She can sing county if she wants to.

[@user-bf5ik2sq5e]

🤠🐴💙 love B

[@telebubba5527]

Anybody can sing country music if they want to. It's just music and it's not bound to location or color or anything else.

[@lansvale28]

Cultural appropriation

[@Itcouldbebunnies]

​@@lansvale28 No, go watch the video.

[@zimladyj84]

@@lansvale28lol someone doesn’t know the history of country music.

[@gigigk5472]

Love how he say “ Bless your heart “ in the end.

[@knyghtsword]

He should have said well aren't you precious like a plate with the chaser of bless your heart. That would have sealed it for me.

[@AliceArceneaux]

Other groups can walk into Black's music, and We don't say anything.. 😢

[@mattkane5329]

Hip hop artists sample white rock musicians quite a bit. I don't believe the actual parties have an issue with it.

[@Lon.BedStuyforLife]

@@mattkane5329 White rock? Seriously? Where do you think the rock genre originated?

[@JoyfulRelaxation22]

GOOD POINT

[@ToxiCisty]

Ok cowboys now let’s get in formation

[@melanielazare9]

Well we better start. No more invitations to the barbecue. Done

[@brewberry3894]

What doesn't anger conservatives? Isn't anger their defining characteristic?

[@lelouchvibritannia2300]

It seems like it.

[@jgrey8959]

They only get mad over important things like tan suits, gas stoves, and green M&M's.

[@JesseSauveandfamily]

Sadly

[@thejackofalltravels8267]

I was thinking ignorance but OKAY

[@kevink2593]

@@thejackofalltravels8267 Angry ignorance.

[@roots1458]

If you don't want to play "black" music, you have to give up blues, rock n roll, jazz, hip hop, and yes, country music.

[@thisbushnell2012]

@roots1458 THANK YOU! in my 75 years, I have seen nearly every new style of music originate in black culture be adopted and riffed off of by cultures AROUND THE GLOBE. In the Arts, there is no ownership of genres. Originators bring forth and artists respond.

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

That don't leave them much to play, doesn't it. So not only can't they jump, dance or rap. They can't even make music.

[@5m0k3y9]

Well there's Gospel, oh wait...

[@HalfFish10]

Only thing I could suggest if you don’t like any black music and any influences of black musicians is to start listening to Pilgrim music as in before slavery started. That is the only way you could claim that it is not tainted with any black music influences.

[@jessmore9870]

I think Beyonce is great and I like the Texas Hold "em song a lot. But who said they don't want to play black music?

[@thewordsmith5440]

They act like Beyonce isn't from the South. They act like 50% of African Americans don't come from the south. And the original cowboys were black.

[@zebrajenks]

original cowboys were south american

[@mrs.elizabethdarcyladyofpe1288]

@@zebrajenksdo a search in history. They were black.

[@Ace-gi4bp]

​​@@zebrajenksnot in stablished America

[@lindaweilburg6428]

Original Cowboys were Spanish.

[@user-hu6lr3vr7g]

​@@zebrajenksOriginal cowboys were Spanish, they were/are called vaqueros. Google it fool.

[@Purple_Smoke75]

She;s not stealing it, She is taking it back!

[@POPJack1717]

Bingo

[@Im4588-m8t]

😂

[@AngryBrother360]

The most frightening thing to a thief, is the owner reclaiming what has been stolen!.💯🎯

[@johnfulton4061]

AMEN!!!!

[@johnfulton4061]

The country people are worried.that blacks can take over country and they just we just might we are very talented and once they open the door for us in anything we excel

[@johnfulton4061]

Do further research look at what Ken Burns had to say in his documentary on country music there was a definite Celtic influence and it was the way the banjo was played

[@johnfulton4061]

​@anniesizemore3344 most of the whites in Appalachia are bigoted and they don't hide it ask any black person that lives there or has traveled there they'll tell you

[@tiarobinson8232]

Facts

[@davidgatzen1543]

In 1962 Ray Charles wanted to make a country music album. Ray's record company did not want him to do it, but he did it anyway. Ray's 1962 album, "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music," became one of his best-known records and included some of his biggest hits like "I Can't Stop Loving You" and "You Don't Know Me." Ray Charles is in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Racism has recently gotten worst, because of the rise of white nationalism.

[@sport1girl]

And due to stinky don

[@havable]

I would imagine there was a racist backlash to Ray Charles' 1962 album as well. There's one thing about conservatism: its consistently racist.

[@mrxman581]

They wouldn't play him on the air today if he was a new artist. You can blame MAGA and Trump for that change in conservatives and Republicans which are the majority of country music fans.

[@brockroberts4258]

dRumph made it “okay” to let your racist, misogynistic flags fly.

[@lovedoctor519]

Speak on it!

[@kllawrence]

Refusing to play or listen hasn't stopped this song from going number one on the country music charts. 😂😂😂

[@marshagreen9759]

Thanks for this Ayman and I appreciate it as a older black woman and love your show.

[@CortexNewsService]

I listened to the song this past weekend. It sounded more country than most music on country radio.

[@jessmore9870]

Me too. If I had to label it these days, I'd say Americana.

[@StormyDay]

Right? Same for Lil Nas’s song.

[@alphanerd7221]

It sounds mechanical. It's mostly a drum machine and a loop. It's commercial crap.

[@alphanerd7221]

@@StormyDay Same goes for that turd as what I just said about the Beyoncé song.

[@MrStaybrown]

She sounds more country than the country music being played today, which sounds pop or rap with a fake twang and autotune.

[@ww2remembered983]

Look at Beyonce! Smoking out the racists! You go girl, show them how its done! You got a fast car!

[@Smedley1947]

What a great song Fast Car was. That whole album except for a couple of songs was really a piece of work.

[@salgilli444]

"Smoking out the racists!" is hilarious. 😅

[@KingAries85]

Is it racist when they did it to jelly roll ? Yelawolf? For being “too country and white” Or the hip hop station the turn Eminem away ?

[@shawa2938]

Well said! one day, I know these problems will cease to exist. We all have to stand up for what's fair until then.❤

[@PaulaCWard]

It's SOOO GOOD to hear racism spoken about and commented on out loud and in public! It's been hidden and back doored for a very long time and until these haters speak out they will never hear how stupid they sound!

[@ElleBSure]

“Reclaiming Black roots in musical genres that have been co-opted and whitewashed.”

[@rich2583]

Lol country music doesn't exsist without whitez

[@Virus-xm7qc]

​@@rich2583I know you're playing, right?

[@pegasus5287]

Who really cares which race did what. We are all humans, each with our own contributions. Why must everything be about race?

[@nwezetx1]

​@@pegasus5287Shut up and go take that condescending and oblivious line of tripe somewhere else. Do you think you're the first and most special person to claim that? It's not on minorities to correct these issues.

[@patricblack1]

​@pegasus5287 That's the problem with blacks/ Africans we create something, everyone wants to copy or steal. Gatekeeping needs to be a bigger thing in the black/ African culture from culture vultures.

[@KitTheMisfitToys]

Music is the language of the universe and our souls. Racists have no soul or place in this universe.

[@iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79]

No soul at all that’s why they are so hateful.

[@pegasus5287]

Youbwill always find what you are looking for

[@bluespagirl1]

Underrated comment 🔥

[@Paul512]

Beautifully said KitTheMisfitToys

[@Juan_deep]

lol they using this as an excuse to make the Carters richer but you fools take the bait from anything the "fake news" have to offer

[@pat1344]

Beyonce has put a new funk style to country music and we are for it. Go girl.

[@DandyLioness83]

I'm from Tennessee, where country music, cowboy boots and hats have always been a part of our culture in the south no matter your race/color. That's never going to change.🤷🏾‍♀️

[@waleskagracia4891]

Aside from how ridiculous this racism and bigotry is, Beyoncé is a born and bred Texan. Country music is a part of her since childhood.

[@idontdohumans5950]

Not only that we blacks folks started country music 😮

[@bperez8656]

Beyoncé is releasing the album on the 50th anniversary of her idol, Tina Turner (Queen of rock) releasing her first country album. ❤ This is justice from Beyoncé on the anniversary of her death

[@Mone525]

True, Martin Luther it seems in vain. Nothing has changed.

[@aishabintabubakr4944]

Lol.....without autotunes and lip syncing Beyonce is nothung

[@HindiOliver]

@@aishabintabubakr4944 "Sound a little like a personal issue with you?"

[@glenncombs3471]

"And to anyone who says otherwise, well ... Bless your heart"! Perfectly spoken!

[@kevinwest3689]

I loved that! Alot of people don't get what your saying when you say that to them. If they did, your comment would have 10,000 likes.

[@carlyar5281]

I loved that part, and I laughed out loud when he said it. It was too perfect!

[@nanarose8537]

😂😂 Love it when he said that!

[@shanedaley6236]

​@@carlyar5281such good acting just reading the teleprompter trying to sound genuine when he knows he's also lying about it being for racist reasons and more because it's not country

[@spacebar9733]

I laughed my butt off

[@jeanhilton98]

It's amazing how something as simple as a song brings put people's true side. If you like it cool , if not, don't buy it.

[@dexterblandin5384]

Thanks for talking about this!!

[@Leslie-hs3vq]

Sounds like some folks are angry that she and most African Americans can do and sing it ALL! And excel!

[@thisbushnell2012]

As reported by which -news- 'entertainment' agency?

[@nwezetx1]

​@@anuragchakraborty8766Eventually your sock account will be banned. Keep it up.

[@sport1girl]

You make a good point. I'm not a big fan of country but I think her song sounds great and I saw some fine looking men doing dances on tiktok to the song

[@puremotion2212]

No, I believe they are angry because they believe that country music stems from white people, and black people are encroaching on their musical territory. Country music originates from black people as does most things that whites have appropriated.

[@lillybethford1915]

Bingo.👍

[@beberivera7011]

Isn't she a Texas native? Leave that girl alone n let her sing about home!

[@deesnutz5576]

Land of the free. She can sing what she wants

[@Alfred-ut4rn]

@@Maria-qh5hr Yes, she's from Houston, no country artists there🤷🤷, Even new Yorkers do country

[@juanitawashington106]

​@@Maria-qh5hrlol you've got to be kidding me? 😂😂😂 The ignorance

[@bperez8656]

@@Maria-qh5hrshe went to rodeos in Houston growing up

[@luisvelez5695]

Tejano is the Music of Texas before english country music , it was once called Country western music , the western has been removed , its hick noise

[@MrBLAQ1000]

Jimmie Rodgers, sometimes called the father of country music, was known for combining the blues, gospel, jazz, cowboy, and folk styles in his songs Country music has roots in African American jazz and blues of the south. Present a brief overview of jazz and the blues to students, introducing its basic structure and form through a listening exercise:

[@28carrasquillo]

😂😂I thought it was Mexican music . So nobody owns it .

[@berylinnis7707]

Thanks for this very informative info, c❤❤❤ Love this song! 🥰🥰🥰

[@rawbellco49]

So Country Singers can steal or remake Black R&B songs but a Black Superstar from TX can't sing or make country music? Make it make sense! How songs did Elvis Presley steal??

[@thomasgirty6397]

NEVER HAVE THIS I ROCK !!!

[@johnfulton4061]

The bigots are nervous because they see country as their music (which is a lie) it was started by black people see the Ken Burns documentary on PBS they're also nervous because they're afraid that these talented crop black country singers(and there are quite a few)will dominate the charts whe the door is open for blacks they always excel

[@LyonsM]

@@thomasgirty6397what?? Make your statement make sense??

[@sherrybean8036]

Let’s not forget “Elvis” and where his rock & roll came from😮

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

He branched off into Country, Gospel and even R&B where were all the complainers then?

[@ronnelson930]

*From Little Richard, Fats Domino, and Chuck Berry*

[@isntyourbusiness]

He stole much of his music from black musicians. Hound Dog originally was a Big Mama Thortons song, he stole it from her.

[@tw4943]

his entire singing style, his look, even the songs he sang WERE STOLEN from black people...he even admitted it

[@alphanerd7221]

@@ronnelson930 That's a BS narrative. People try to erase Bill Haley and Link Wray to pretend black people invented rock and roll. Chuck Berry got run out of the black clubs for sounding to white and found acceptance in white clubs where his country influenced style was more accepted.

[@tuwashaplair9257]

Well reported and Thank You Kindly! 😊

[@MikeSchellingMusic]

The hypocrisy here is that country radio doesn’t even play country music anymore, let alone Beyoncé. Also, who listens to radio stations anymore anyways ??

[@BohepansTheThird]

As a white boy born and raised in West Texas, I am, and always have been, utterly _appalled_ at the racism, against _anyone_ that isn't white, that I grew up surrounded by, and the racism that continues on in Texas. I have become more and more ashamed of my home state as I get older and as time marches on. Next you'll tell me they'll start driving out _female_ country singers like Reba McEntire and Faith Hill- oh wait, they already tried to drive The Chicks out because how dare they disagree with a President _in a country where you absolutely have the freedom and even encouragement to disagree with your President whenever, wherever you want, on whatever topic you choose_ - like way too many people already do with _our current President_ - so I guess I shouldn't be surprised this happened, and that racism continues happening...not surprised, just incredibly disappointed. And still ashamed. I can't have pride in my home state anymore. When will this nightmare end...wake me up when September ends. Or rather, when November ends. (But only _after_ I cast my ballot in the upcoming election, of course!) Can't listen to or sing the songs you want to - can't read the books you want to - women aren't even allowed bodily autonomy - what the heck am I supposed to be proud of about Texas today? _What freedom, Texas?_ The 'freedom' to live and pass on, on _an old white man's terms_ - rather than _one's one_ terms? Disgraceful. I state again: I am _ashamed._

[@cindyelam9509]

Why don't you quit trying to cause trouble where there is none... it's people like you, the media and the government that keep racism stirred up..I've lived in Texas my 58 years and people take care and look out and support each other, regardless of the color of their skin..not to mention racism = hate=Satan..not people..quit trying to keep people divided with your nonsense..you little attention seeker..you said your ashamed..well you should be

[@daltonmoore233]

Thank you for this. I’m from south Louisiana & I feel the exact same. I’m surrounded by so many people with so much hate in their hearts… more than anything else it just makes me sad

[@k.v.6885]

I’m black and feel the same way.

[@Sum-Ting-Wong71]

You can listen to and read about anything you want to, and last time I checked women are still having abortions.

[@funygomescadina6660]

THEN MOVE TO CALIFORNIA lol

[@kathyrama4570]

Do they realize this is 2024?

[@winstonp.prescott3845]

they don't care!

[@williamhartz8707]

Not Texas. You forget?

[@iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79]

They think it’s 1825, that’s why they like Trump so much because they like living in the past. “Make America Great Again” because they are not trying to look to the future they want to go back to another time when America wasn’t so great for everyone.

[@luke3172]

2024 is probably worse in some aspects, than years in the past.

[@lf3541]

Yes, of course they do! Hence their obvious desperation to roll back our present and return to the more "traditional family values" of yesteryear, ie: women's rights to choice, voters rights, denial of systemic racism...anything that gets them closer to the 1950's post WW2 way of American life... Progress is something that hasn't really panned out for them over the long term. Republicans want back the upper hand they feel they once had if only people of color, women and anyone under the rainbow flag, etc. would just sit down and behave already.

[@CarlineFrancois]

So true. Thank you for bringing this awareness to the masses. 🌿

[@madreep]

My daddy was a real Black cowboy. He was born and raised in Rockdale, Texas. His grandfather had a ranch where he broke horses and my dad grew up there. He wore a Stetson hat and Alligator boots, and loved his Western movies.

[@NancyMitchell1965]

I love when artists like Beyonce and Taylor Swift experiment with different genres. That's what artists do.

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

Yeah but for Taylor Swift, it's "crossing over" but when it comes to Beyonce, it's "stealing". The only thing making this nonsense NOT be so annoying it that it's happening on President's Day. PD needs to be marred!

[@Nisfor372]

Does anyone get upset when Faith Hill, Carrie Underwood or even Dolly Parton does cross over music. No, because they enjoy the entertainment quality. So why shouldn't it be just that when a great perfomer does the same.

[@jessmore9870]

@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 Who said Beyonce is "stealing" anything?

[@alphanerd7221]

@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 Who said Beyonce stole anything? This narrative has no basis in reality.

[@mohamedislembarhoumi9832]

​@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 bingo

[@IamwhoIam333]

WHY doesn't Texas talk more about the Black Cowboy 💭🤔🤠 Texas has had more brown skinned Cowboys than White Cowboy's but we never hear about their contributions to Texas.

[@Tepaneca]

First cowboys were Mexicans not blks

[@BD-uw1kq]

​@@TepanecaTell us all about your 1st hand observations of this.

[@deniseeugene1852]

True girl. I live in New York. We have the black cowboys club and they are invited to certain children’s events. I can’t tell you the look of astonishment on their faces when little black urban boys see cowboys galloping down the street together.

[@IamwhoIam333]

@@Tepaneca you are correct. Yet even they get more recognition than black cowboy's. I wasn't looking to 💭🤔 hmmmmm leave anyone out. It was because it was a Beyonce song I guess. I'm a Freddy Fender fan. I don't listen to Beyonce 's music.

[@ElleBSure]

In Antebellum Texas, White ranchers referred to White workers as "cow hands," with Black people in the same position referred to with the pejorative "cow boy."

[@monkeytennis7477]

Cannot talk about black country artists, without mentioning DeFord Bailey, who back in the 1920's and 30's was a frequent guest on the Grand Ole Opry, he was and is still one of the best harmonica players of all times 👍🤓👍🎶🎵🎶🎵🎼

[@haywoodmorganjr1326]

How can a country music station not know when new country music is released? Sounds like a cop out to me.

[@rebeccaa.3121]

Typical white gaslighting.

[@mabelbradley6604]

I am a white country music lover, but I love soul, rap, R&B, pop, and other music too. Not all white country music lovers are racist! I blame the radio stations, let her music play, and let the listeners judge. Please be respectful!

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

Ditto. I liked Soul/R&B and the Dukes of Hazzard as a kid! I think I may have been the only city-boy who yelled "Hee Haw"!

[@amin44444]

Me too! I love me some country, but also can’t get enough of Bey or Mary J. Blige 😂

[@treflips2158]

That's great, but we need more people like yourself to speak out against it.

[@WJV9]

I grew up in midwest farm country and listened to Grand Ole Opry for years. However when I first heard Ray Charles I loved his R & B and country music. I also got into Jazz music, Brubeck, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, etc. I have never listened to just one style of music, my mix tape would contain Willie Nelson, Ray Charles, CCR, Satchmo, Beatles, Muddy Waters, Waylon Jennings, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, John Prine, Whitney Houston, Miles Davis, Tom Petty, Rolling Stones, Brewer & Shipley, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Django Reinhart, Billie Holiday, etc.

[@Santiago-in1xf]

@@amin44444 I've always said if you change the instrumentation to Mary J Blige, a lot of her storytelling fits country. Be Without You could be a country song. R&B and Country are close branches of the same tree.

[@CallMeGailyn]

It was black women who created every iconic southern food dish. Look it up. Who did the cooking on the plantations? Not the white women!

[@MrVesperatu]

That might be true. But it don't make Beyonce country.

[@Uhg-hk8ss]

@@MrVesperatuwow, now I’ve met a bigot.

[@Projectmayhem82]

Thanks for that thought but we're talking about music

[@jaisonlives]

Irrelevant

[@iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79]

@@MrVesperatushe is from Texas, why not?

[@omiyinkaogunsegun5012]

Everyone appropriates everything that we, as Black people, have and do. Now, when we appropriate something that certain people think only belongs to them, they get upset. Remember, the banjo came from Africans!!

[@AceMr05]

It’s funny there will be no country music if it wasn’t for black Americans but yet white America holds country music like they created the genre.

[@The6thelement9413]

Thank you, Beyoncé! Show the racists that you don’t fear them. ❤❤❤

[@williamshaw5388]

Keep rooting for a capitalist billionaire that doesn’t care about you. This is a nation of morons.

[@pegasus5287]

Just for the record, it was democrats who started the kkk.

[@curtisbischof3812]

Yes, show Biden how much of a fool he is. Where's Jackie D4mnit!!

[@HoldinContempt]

Interesting how Blacks can in the same breath accuse whites of having no culture while at the same time appropriating white culture for themselves.

[@JohnnyDeDrago]

We don't fear her. We axe the lorded to be protected us an sheet.

[@witchqueen8576]

This will not go well, racists gonna be racist

[@rich2583]

Says the professional victimhood loving racist

[@JohnnyDeDrago]

What do you think she is?

[@00tree]

@@JohnnyDeDrago Whataboutisms... the defense of the indefensible...

[@_Rachel_Hiller_]

Beyoncé is standing up to racism with her work here. I feel she’s doing that for all in the US who are anti-racist. I’m so grateful to her.

[@JohnnyDeDrago]

You better love country music or you ain't black.

[@BlackBeauty872]

Good information! Keep up the good work.

[@lauriejohnson7086]

I am a conservative (libertarian actually) and I like the song. Not all conservatives are racist despite all of the overgeneralizations. And I am married to a black man.

[@WORLDSTHEREAL411]

Black men will marry any white woman!

[@kathleengooch3619]

Did they forget about Charlie pride? He was a country singer. And he was black

[@misterhappy5462]

yes and that means charlie pride didn't deal with any racism in his day--or that NO OTHER black country musicians have dealt with historical american racism because HIS songs were bought. 🙄🙄🙄

[@MrBLAQ1000]

Majority of people we shocked in silence when he first walked in stage

[@ldy2hzlft1111]

Shes Texan & its not her first country song. Darius Rutger switched to country does anyone cry about that.

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

The funny thing was that he BOMBED as an R&B artist!

[@4daluvofnikki]

@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 Darius Rucker was never an R&B artist. He went from Pop Rock to Country.

[@kcufelgoog3225]

Actually, some people did have a problem with him

[@PriscillaRobb]

Noticed that.Darius R. never get any big and small award from CM. I wonder why? He is a very good singer. One can hardly tell if he is black or white when one listen to his songs.

[@heatherc4416]

He sounds country. His songs are good..

[@ameshia4532]

Bey said, "Hold my cowboy hat." 😁

[@oohbabybloo]

Thank you Beyonce for taking this L and exposing what people think and say behind closed doors. We still have a ways to go for ppl to stop making a big deal about race

[@Cliohna]

"Bless your heart" Nailed it.

[@Hppy_Cmpr]

It’s a mediocre song at best. She should stick to what she’s good at. When has she Ever sang country or dressed western? Seems like the desperate attempt of a has been to resurrect her career. I guess being a Dubai porta potty isn’t paying as well as it used to before she became a mother.

[@shanedaley6236]

Unfortunately he's wrong but that's what you get when you don't even know what country music is he probably has never listened to country he's only reading what is put Infront of him Those two songs aren't country they are pop there's a difference this would be like putting carrie Underwood's most country song on pop radio it just doesn't match

[@elchapojr6219]

@@shanedaley6236your just another of them racist country boys

[@terifarmer5066]

Bless HER heart. Beyonce can't sing Country,

[@ninaaustin2996]

Texas Hold'em actually has the structure musically as old country. This crap that they call country now is just pop- music with a southern twang. Why do you think it was so easy for Taylor Swift to crossover.

[@1truek269]

Facts!!!

[@isntyourbusiness]

I completely disagree. I think Texas hold em is very much pop music, especially the ending

[@vanessalewis1023]

Yes!!!

[@1O1O11]

The modern country music I hear on the radio doesn't have any defining 'country' features beyond the country accent, references to country things, and maybe a steel guitar in the background behind some copy of a classic rock kind of electric guitar riff. A lot of what I have heard recently they have to constantly name drop older country artists, brands or items associated with the south, or generic phrases like 'small town' or 'home cooking' as a way to let people know, "Yes, this is actually a country song, didn't you hear the line about Johnny Cash and Sweet Tea?" So I don't know if anyone in modern country music can really complain... The genre hardly exists anymore in a musical sense. Though I disagree a little bit about pop music. Though it is very much pop in structure, most of these 'country music' guitar players are probably from classic rock cover bands that no longer have a genre of their own.

[@nicolejohnson4989]

The lyrics aren't the best

[@DanneyTanner]

Hello yall..😊 Im a 56 year old born and raised Minnesota . As a white loving good old country music I like Texas Hold'em.I think its good to see a artist transfer to country. Charlie Pride was also a favorite of mine...I just wish the R word would go away.❤

[@NikD215]

Shocking newsflash, like rock ‘n’ roll, country music’s American roots begin with black Americans in the south even the old-school white country musicians credited the black country musicians. Also the banjo that’s often associated with country music is a west African instrument and most slaves were taken from West Africa.

[@freshlegs27]

"Bless your heart" was icing on the cake ❤

[@60asteroid]

❤😅

[@Matt-vv7fl]

Music isn't supposed to have a color. If you like it then listen to it, sing it, enjoy it. Music is for everybody.

[@HoldinContempt]

music is a tool for propaganda and brainwashing.

[@GOLDESCAFLOWNE]

Absolutely agree

[@peachesandpoets]

Tell that to white people who steal things and then gatekeep them.

[@ItsMikeSandovalsYouTubeChannel]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MinervaAlvarez-dx3jc]

you're punishing country people for not relating to a millionaire city chick. Some of the most famous country musicians in recent history are black like Darius Rucker and Micky Guyton. Identity politics don't get us anywhere, I will remind people over and over again.

[@e.a.r.9155]

Going into chicken house doesn't make you a chicken, nor going into a garage makes you a car. IT AIN'T COUNTRY MUSIC. (In fact not much of what ANYBODY plays today is actually Country music, they just call it that..!)

[@deiydjiolaf74]

Bless your heart indeed.

[@stephencooper3583]

Do your thing Beyonce. There is nothing wrong with black people singing country any more than white people doing rap or R&B. Let the haters hate... it's what they do.

[@shanedaley6236]

She would first have to make a country song

[@sgjdsyevkfhao]

Black people also incented country music and beonce got both slavemasters or whatever you call then and people who were enslaved in her family line so even if white people are mad she is black and singing country even though black people invented country and mexicans were the first cowboys she got both white and black people in her family line and slavemasters too at that and isnt that what white people like? Like why are they amd i dont understand and sorry is my english is bad im not english so i am still learing im sorry if i wrote wrong or so it is hard to understand.

[@MPPG663]

She doesn't need your permission. Country music started with black people.

[@sgjdsyevkfhao]

@@shanedaley6236 she just did make 2 country songs actually! She released them early as an tease for her country album since she is from texas and country music is her roots!

[@shanedaley6236]

@@sgjdsyevkfhao ya I listened to them they're not country

[@everettjackson960]

Sad after 500 years were still going through this

[@hotties3v3n]

That wicked spirit they have won't die.

[@ladyd4668]

The fact of the matter is music or whatever. Don’t care how much money you have. To them you are nothing. Be real I don’t care what year century you don’t have that privilege to be in there space. Why do you want to be where you are not wanted. People need to stop trying to force yourself into someone else’s space.

[@danielledouglas1027]

Right!!!!

[@curlybarbie26]

It’s the grand children of these monsters that’s keeping it going.

[@curlybarbie26]

@@hotties3v3nI agree, there’s a demon that’s hovering over them. People have to remember that Satan was casted out of heaven on to the earth with a 3rd of the angles with him. So you can only imagine how many demons are amongst white people, sad but it’s true. They have to make a change before it’s too late, God will judge them.

[@diane72347]

Beyonce is wonderful!! I’m 76. White. She did country!! Get over it haters and racists. There’s no place for you here.

[@Downtownatlantahoponhopofftour]

This is what happen when a system refuse to teach correct history.

[@briandufoe3719]

I remember reading that Ella Fitzgerald loved country music, Like Duke Ellington said " theres only two kinds of music, good and bad "

[@1O1O11]

Blue Yodel #9 is an interesting piece of history when Louis Armstrong collaborated with Jimmie Rodgers a popular Country artist in the early 1930s (he died in 1935... sigh...) There is even a video on KZbin of Armstrong playing the song with Johnny Cash many years later.

[@bridgeseller]

Duke was a genius.

[@curbmassa]

Charlie Parker LOVED Hank Williams` records.

[@briandufoe3719]

@@curbmassa I've never heard African Americans say white people shouldn't play the blues, Never heard them say white people should not play jazz, Both music legends,Parker & Williams.

[@richardhoward9470]

Wow racism in America is strong as can be. Keep it up America just showing us your strong roots. Music is music.

[@tulipsalinger1410]

I really hate racism, she can sing any kind of song that she sees fit to and she will undoubtedly do it well and excel as she always does!

[@shanedaley6236]

She can if she ever wants to do actual country i will give her a chance i did listen to these two songs and they sounded fake they sounded pop Like she sang the song in the recording booth as pop which is what you hear then they overlay it to country instrumentals which is why it sounds fake and commercial

[@gaetagirl]

Yes she can but it’s not a good song. She could have put any song into country music that is well written… she can sing anything! She’s amazing singer… but the song isn’t that good. Too bubble pop… Halo is a great song in any genre….. that’s the issue, not the color

[@karllib]

glad to hear it...where did this enmity against a white person begin?

[@terifarmer5066]

Her not being ABLE to sing COUNTRY Music, has NOTHING TO DO WITH color,

[@terifarmer5066]

"Beyoncé ain't country", period!! this song is crap. and her FAN'S knows it, desperate for attention, only way was due to Toby Keith's Passing, Sad Blow BeyONCE, No Class, all trash! called Pop!

[@lifewiththesudeens9238]

I really dislike people these days, everything is a problem to a group of people 😞

[@mareerogers364]

The term, Grand Ole Opry was coined in honor of the genre's first country music star,a Black man named DeFord Bailey. Some of his descendants are still living.He toured with greats like Roy Acuff who attended and weeped at his friend's funeral.DeFord Bailey was known as the harmonica wizard. I have the Box set: From Where I Stand: The Black Experience In Country Music its a 3 disc set. A native born, and bred Texan named Beyonce has EVERY right to sing Any genre of music she wants. Her song is everywhere.Popps up on my phone😂 Let's face it, Country music doesn't honor great white artists like Lucas Nelson (Willie Nelson's son). They have drunk the kool-aid .The last CMA awards show was fluff and lacked substance. Thankfully, Chris Stapleton won CMA male volcalist for 2023. They dropped The Dixie Chicks like a hot potato because of a comment! I don't expect aCM radio station or stations to play her song.😂 It doesn't matter. It's gone global.😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉 Her song and dances created on TicTock have gone viral. Don't Mess with a native born Texan. Beyonce is Texas born and Texas bred and when she dies she'll be Texas dead❤❤❤❤

[@MsSuchamuchvlogs]

@MSNBC, it’s Black History Month. Why don’t you do a special on how minstrel shows contributed to modern day country? For those who aren’t aware country began on the plantation and in Black towns, and then white people made fun of it in their minstrel and then they kept using the music after those type of shows went out of Vogue. That is the history of country music.

[@karenwaddell9396]

I thought the music was more banjo and with a bit of Irish/scottish influence. Oh well. Who cares, I love country music. RIP Toby Keith. I’m as good once as I ever was.

[@wintersyve2000]

​@@karenwaddell9396 As stated in the news segment, the banjo was introduced to America by enslaved African people, who fashioned the instrument with what meager materials they had to recreate their instruments from back home. In fact, it became popularized in white spaces through minstrels shows where white people would mock Black people's culture. But the fact that today, you think of the banjo as somehow separate from Blackness shows how effective the erasure of Black history has been. That's why it's so important that Beyoncé is drawing attention to the Black roots of the genre.

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

Part of. Not nearly the whole story

[@MsSuchamuchvlogs]

@@lizziebkennedy7505 what’s the whole story?

[@bperez8656]

Beyoncé is releasing the album on the 50th anniversary of her idol, Tina Turner (Queen of rock) releasing her first country album. ❤ This is justice from Beyoncé on the anniversary of her death

[@CMane]

None of this is going to stop her from making the music she wants to. The woman is even born and raised in Texas. All media attention does is make her even more famous. 💯

[@shanedaley6236]

She can make all the pretend country songs she wants to and get awards in the pop genre because that's what the songs are

[@CMane]

@@shanedaley6236 Pfft!! Hahahahahahaaaaa!!!!!! 😫😆😂🤣

[@shanedaley6236]

@@CMane it's true in the tag for any of her 3 songs and for this album should read under genre pop *fake country Her voice sounds like I would expect her voice to sound on any of her pop albums but when it comes to the instruments they sound commercial like there's something off with them being played maybe because the people playing them are all from her band who have no country music experience so there's a pop band influence to it

[@CMane]

@@shanedaley6236 You obviously have no idea what you’re talking about, because you don’t know ANY of those musicians, nor do you really know Beyoncé. Nor do you know their backgrounds either! Stop HATING. 👀🤷‍♂️😂💯

[@shanedaley6236]

@@CMane I listened to both of the songs mentioned they aren't country they are pop

[@Staylogical]

It's the 1950's now for women in Texas.For black women,it's probably the 1930's.

[@georgeharris9873]

Beyonce really knows how to sing Country. SALUTE !

[@williewilliams8754]

Did he just say bless your heart? That will go over a lot of people's heads!!🤣😂🤣

[@michellew157]

Not my head!!! 😆😆😆❤️❤️❤️

[@mrs.elizabethdarcyladyofpe1288]

Not us southerners! Especially not those racist whites- but they wouldn’t even listen to the segment.

[@erikfinkel2717]

I'm gonna request this song in every country station I don't listen to.

[@LaineyBug2020]

You got me at the emd there!

[@ClumsyGeorge]

is it racism or just pure jealousy on the fact that no one can reach the angelic tones of Beyonce's Angel's voice?

[@hammerandthewrench7924]

And she charts 26 songs on the Spotify global charts lol

[@AlexONeal]

This is crazy - Texas Hold’em is catchy, danceable, and has strong lyrics. Why on earth would people deny themselves enjoying a good song because of skin color?

[@frankellis9627]

Becuase this is America 🥴

[@Jay-jb2vr]

*Amerikkka*

[@frankellis9627]

@@Jay-jb2vr Exactly 🤨

[@doghairdontcarelindaniel7531]

Ignorance!

[@canderson5240]

Calling a song Texas Hold'em doesn't make it country no more than putting the word God in a song makes it gospel.

[@wintergarden7539]

LOL, are radio stations even relevant anymore? We have streaming services and listen to whatever we like.

[@RichardQuaid]

I stream 93 XRT, best radio station in the country.

[@telebubba5527]

There are 100.000 radio services on the internet, all for free and a lot of them also ad free from every country in the world. Old fashioned radio is officially dead for me.

[@4daluvofnikki]

@@telebubba5527The operative word is Radio Station. You are still listening to a radio station, but using a computer to stream their live broadcast. There are radio stations some small, that do not stream their live broadcasts. The beauty of streaming is you are not just limited to stations in your local area, but can listen to streams from around the world. But at the end of the day, they are still radio stations.

[@4daluvofnikki]

Yes radio stations are still relevant. Some people still do not have adequate internet or computers. So they still listen to AM/FM. There is an AM station I listen to that used to stream their live broadcast, they no longer do 😢. I have no idea why. So I have to go back to listening to them on my radio.

[@OT7_DopeOldARMY]

They are for charting. Billboard keeps changing the rules to keep radio more relevant/influential than streaming or buying.

[@dianesmith-vaughn1495]

THANK YOU SIR FOR SETTING THE FACTS STRAIGHT. NO SURPRISE THOUGH. 21ST CENTURY. STILL.

[@bernanderson1965]

That is so crazy,don't be jealous,she's good,she can sang it all.They hate to see black people with so much talent but,we started it all,remember

[@Brandalf_The_Grey]

Hey, Music Major and music teacher here… and a white boy who grew up around a lot of country music… Ayman is 100% correct about the banjo and the roots of country music

[@HoldinContempt]

nice larp

[@alphanerd7221]

The bajo yes, country no.

[@havable]

@@alphanerd7221 Get over it. Your culture was invented by black people. The entire south of the US was built by black people, along with our capitol. Just get used to the idea that white people have not contributed as much to society as you wish to believe. I'm white too. But at least I don't lie to myself. White people *did* invent both fascism and Jesus, though, so I guess we white people did invent some truly terrible things (like a human sacrifice being the key to everlasting life, that we should celebrate such a sacrifice....rejecting such a thing should be the def of "good" not compliance with it).

[@mrxman581]

​​@@alphanerd7221Without the banjo, you don't have blue grass country music. Which many people believe is the true country music, or at least, the origins of country music.

[@automnejoy5308]

@@mrxman581 Why didn't West Africa create country music as we know it today, then?

[@Fr0stySn00ze]

What's hilarious is that a huge chunk of modern country music doesn't qualify as country music either. That bro-country stuff is just pop music with a southern accent. A lot of those songs even have raps in them. Yet, they won't let her on because by their standards she's considered too 'urban' (aka she's black 🙄)

[@lannie220]

It has nothing to do with her being black there are plenty BLACK country artists it boils down to it’s a pitiful attempt at country music to be plain it SUCKED hahaha it was awful 😂not only that it was a jab a country music read between the lines she’s saying country music ain’t nothing anybody can put on the hat and go down as she said look I can lay my money down too she’s poking fun that anybody can do it cause we just plain ole stupid country folk ya’ll but see we are not and we heard what she was saying next time you wanna sing country at least take a real jab at it with a meaningful song a real country song not this crap and here’s a little something to take with ya we ain’t as stupid as you think we are lol and after reading more of the comments I see I’m not the only one who feels this way .. bye😢

[@lancepeek]

Who exactly is showing disrespect? I live in Texas and haven’t heard one single complaint about Beyoncé singing a country song. This really seems like disinformation. Are there any sources cited?

[@crystal_madeitclear]

Cant forget about Aaron Neville who is a black country singer who has been around for sometime now

[@mgardner70]

The country fans have shown us who they are, believe them.

[@728huey]

That doesn't apply to all the country fans, just the ones who claim country music is only done one certain way.

[@alphanerd7221]

They don't like a pop star with a drum machine, big deal. It's not like country stars who go pop get a warm reception.

[@mgardner70]

@@alphanerd7221 terrible take. Do. Better.

[@helenstopp9962]

Just remember not all of us are red neck buffoons. I came for the music. I’ll stay for the music. And I don’t care who sings it.

[@alphanerd7221]

@@mgardner70 You are mad at me for effectively refuting your ignorant bigoted narrative.

[@DaKrawnik]

Who knew a truck and a dog were that important to folks.

[@hilliparterable]

Ojays sung about a dog that ranaway and made it a hit.... What ever people relate to people will sing

[@casaundraanthony5213]

Excellent Reporting ❤

[@aliciatucker6625]

Good Reporting ❤

[@claudiaoe2661]

I am glad here in Germany we just love her music, whatever genre she is in at the moment! Her voice is just iconic! ❤

[@FairEbony]

Someone should make a movie about how country music was stolen from black prisoners. It’s not uncommon for thieves to take what they want and rewrite history.

[@hermanblackwell8760]

That's exactly what the history of this land is about, thievery, lies, murders, thats why they want to ban books, they don't want there kids to know the real truth.

[@karllib]

OK...you can have country music in exchange for basketball. Country music...as well as any number of other genres, are a synthesis of both black and white contributions. I'd be happy to elaborate if you want to hear more?

[@luciakoilani5995]

​@karllieb I imagine thinking basketball was from yt ppl 😂 Just because Mayo culture STEALS ideas from everywhere they've colonized and rewrites the base history they use as propaganda to absolve & justify thier atrocities, truth and reality can't be fully erased for any and every person with even half the mind see past western indoctrination. Btw versions of basketball were played by the Mayan and people of Meso Americas while pasty people in Europe where dieing of plagues and killing each other over religion aka the the dark ages.

[@hotties3v3n]

No one cares. Stay mad.

[@lamontjennings8996]

It was actually created by Appalachian Celtic abolitionist immigrants and black freedman with the creation of the banjo.

[@InfinitleYours]

Whatever!!!She can sing whatever genre of music she wants. Oh yea and she is from Texas…So she is Country! Respect People😢

[@theressan.8197]

We are Americans, if a Simple Country Album by Beyonce, divides us like this. Our Enemies around the world, Simply can divide and Conquer us like with a blink of an eye. The world laughs at us, because America is so divided, over the dumbest things in this world. Divide is from within, it’s makes it easy to take the country from the outside. Country Music is 200% part of the Black Culture, please learn your history, before making a fool out of yourself. But I forgot, those Bigots usually are some of the most dumbest people in the world. America when are we going to learn, divided we Will Fall as a Nation, together we stand. Keep the Country Music coming Beyonce, it’s your given birth right!!!

[@AprilHarmony9]

My roots are from the south like many black ppl. Those of us that know the history of black ppl in country music, know the racism & prejudice thats occurring right now.

[@user-lw3hz9ur5n]

The irony is that Black people are the one who made that music. Blues, Jazz, Soul, Reggae, classic music, Rock … all genre have been created by black people. So no one can tell us black people to not sing what we created that’s our direct connection with our ancestors.

[@HoldinContempt]

once again Lying about your history and your contributions to society

[@jessmore9870]

You could make an argument that black Americans have created all those genres -- except classic if you mean classical. Back, Hayden, Beethoven, Mozart -- about as European as you get. But, they didn't create them in a vacuum. All of those genres took Western musical tradition and made something new out of it. New harmonies and new rhythms. I mean, Miles didn't invent the trumpet. And white people subsequently took black music tradition and made new things out of it. Earl Scruggs took black three-finger banjo music, put on some fingerpicks and made bluegrass out of traditional Appalachian music of all ethnicities. Gerschwin combined jazz harmonies and European symphonic music and made something new and beautiful. Who is telling you Beyonce can't sing country music? Even Ayman didn't provide any examples of that.

[@alphanerd7221]

Not true. Rock was created by black, white, and Indian people. This myth that black people created it is lazy.

[@Smedley1947]

@HoldinContempt Elvis, the king of rock and roll, was popular in large part because he whitewashed the Blues. And he remembered where the roots of rock were. You're probably just unaware of it because you don't know the history of rock and roll. Rock and roll existed long before honkeys (of which I am one) had ever even heard of it. Mostly because it never got played on white radio stations. Yeah, now there's a little known fact there used to be black radio stations playing music that was the direct Forerunner of what you call rock and roll. Until Elvis, honkies were afraid to move like that while they performed . How many Americans 50 or younger would even think about that.? And a good doo-wop day to you. Acapella of course.

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

@@HoldinContemptit’s demonstrably true. You do no reader and yet here you are…

[@vjai6412]

Love this❤ thank you for the honesty

[@kymokoth]

I highly recommend the cd Rhythm, Country & Blues...it pairs legendary R&B performers with legendary country performers for duets.

[@RudieObias]

It seems that most country music fans aren't aware of the deep history and influence by Black people of their favorite music genre.

[@alphanerd7221]

It's not that big, especially anymore.

[@sistahb5159]

​@@alphanerd7221 Black people actually created country music as they did every other music form in the US 🇺🇲

[@alphanerd7221]

@@sistahb5159 Well congrats on not knowing anything about music.

[@sistahb5159]

@@alphanerd7221 Congrats on being a lying anti-Black!

[@JustRaine97]

I'm not even a big Bey fan and I don’t listen to country music but I purchased this music to support her! If conservatives are mad about it, it must be good! 😅

[@shanedaley6236]

This isn't about conservatives it's about it being pop and not country

[@JustRaine97]

@@shanedaley6236 ok. Whatever.

[@shanedaley6236]

@@JustRaine97 the only country thing about those two songs are the names and the background band and their not good her voice sounds pop it's a pop song

[@mhc6921]

@@shanedaley6236 The songs are categorized as country. Look it up. Just because it doesn’t sound country to you does not give you authority to say so for others. Try again.

[@shanedaley6236]

@@mhc6921 so she can be honored with making a new subgenre pop country has roots in pop with a little bit of country played on pop radio I'm actually now convinced after thinking about it more this was some kind of bet or she feels she needs to prove her self for some reason which is insane

[@inaromeo]

It is such a great tune. Beyonce is that girl. She is an amazing artist. 👏🏿 Country music was created by Black people. So was rock n roll.

[@ericross1261]

Country music originated in and from Africa where is still be played to date in eastern Nigeria , known as Egwu Ekperi ]

[@jojohns1949]

So was Beyoncé Punk Rock Ramones album