Beyoncé Country Album

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Who has gone from pop/rock to country successfully?

Darius Rucker

He's just a grifter who segued to country when his soft rock career washed up. See also Kid Rock.

Why is he a grifter? He is a successful artist. He also grew up listening to country. I think he started in rock when he was in college at Univ of South Carolina and rock and roll is played in college bars.

Not really sure why Darius Rucker is even appearing in this discussion since the only thing he has in common with Bey is that he's a black crossover artist. But Rucker is legitimately one of the biggest country stars of the last decade, with Wagon Wheel one of the most played country songs of the past several decades. By contrast, Bey just dropped a vanity country album that isn't getting much play at all. I haven’t heard a single track.

Wagon Wheel was a cover song.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon_Wheel_(song)

Irrelevant comment. So was Proud Mary, Respect by Aretha F, etc. You'd be shocked at how much music is covered, sampled, etc. Doesn't change that the Darius R Wagon Wheel is one of the most played country songs of the past decade.

So his most played record is not his and makes other people rich. Got it.

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“Beyoncé, who recently debuted two country-infused songs from her upcoming album, has become the first Black woman to top Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2024/02/21/beyonce-record-number-1-country-song/

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Anonymous wrote:This is Jay Z’s attempt to have Beyoncé win best country album to spite T swift… good song though

that makes zero sense - even if Bey won the award, it make so sense that Jay Z or B would think this has any bit of affect on TS

Effect. Makes perfect sense. It’s directed right at swift who started out as a country artist then moved into mainstream pop and robbed Beyoncé of her glory.

NP. It doesn’t make sense. Also, Taylor and Beyoncé have been supporting each other at their respective movie openings.

TS has already won country album of the year. Bey making a country album is zero to TS — literally does not matter in any way.

Fearless beat out I am Sasha Fierce for Album of the Year the same year it also won Country Album of the Year, and songs from the album were also up for best Pop songs against Bey. Jay z’s comment about not being in the right category was directed at swift and his comments about race at the Grammys were a veiled way of saying, this country white lady keeps besting my wife. Now this is their way of saying you can win at pop? Well we can win at country. It may mean nothing to swift but it’s a blatant ploy to try to her Bey a country album award if she can’t win album of the year. Maybe even get her some country music awards too.

You make zero sense. TS has won every country and every pop award. Bey has won zero country or pop awards.

Since 1957 only 11 black artists have won album of the year. 11, in almost 70 years.

I’m pretending that racism isn’t a thing that has impacted virtually everything, but context matters.

How many black people were in the US in 1957 and the ensuing years? Hint: they comprised a very small percentage of american demographics but their numbers have obviously increased since then.

How many black singers were in the top spots and what percentage does that equate to?

If album of the year is a popularity contest, then it is what it is…and there have been far more white Americans than black Americans. Of course, those demographics are shifting.

What are you talking about? The black percentage of the population has been remarkably stable — at about 12% — for many decades. Winning an annual prize in 11 of 70 years = 15%. Can anyone whining about representation here do math?

From 2012 to 2020, statistics showed that black artists received only 26.7% of nominations for the awards show while they represented over 38% of all artists on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.[2]


I’m not whining, I’m stating facts. Here are some statistics for you.

Why are you cherry picking those 8 years?

Yes, I did all the research for that. It was hard, but I just whipped that statistic out in 4 minutes going through billboard data, calculating and chose those years and began calculating!!!

Not really. I used google. It was on a Wikipedia page about Grammy’s and under representation.

I have since found this:

In contrast to the lack of women artists, artists from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups represented over half of 2021’s artists (57.2%). Across the decade examined, people of color represented 47.8% of the more than 1,900 artists on the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End Charts.

Which is even more damning to the Grammy situation.

Can't win them all. Maybe a lot of people just don't like Beyoncé's music? Her screeching hurts my ears, I'd rather not listen to it.

I don’t like listening to Harry Styles or TS but they won. I just do my best not to listen to them. We’re not on the board, so it doesn’t really matter what we think. It does matter if we don’t understand historical perspective.

Boo hoo. Also if non-whites are overrepresented on the billboard charts, that doesn’t ipso facto entitle them to be overrepresented in Grammy Awards. I bet you have the opposite view of that kind of logic when it comes to Asians at TJ!

So you now are arguing billboard charts are suffering from reverse discrimination?
Gotcha. Who cares about TJ it’s a pressure cooker where kids get locked out of the good colleges due to competition anyway.

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I love country music but this didn't do much for me. Its top of the charts so clearly i've bad taste. I didn't get costume choice either.

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Anonymous wrote:I love country music but this didn't do much for me. Its top of the charts so clearly i've bad taste. I didn't get costume choice either.

It's top of the charts because her husband is an alleged record executive. This is so thirsty and desperate. She needs to just fade gracefully. She's middle aged, get over it you're not a pop star in your prime anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:This is Jay Z’s attempt to have Beyoncé win best country album to spite T swift… good song though

that makes zero sense - even if Bey won the award, it make so sense that Jay Z or B would think this has any bit of affect on TS

Effect. Makes perfect sense. It’s directed right at swift who started out as a country artist then moved into mainstream pop and robbed Beyoncé of her glory.

NP. It doesn’t make sense. Also, Taylor and Beyoncé have been supporting each other at their respective movie openings.

TS has already won country album of the year. Bey making a country album is zero to TS — literally does not matter in any way.

Fearless beat out I am Sasha Fierce for Album of the Year the same year it also won Country Album of the Year, and songs from the album were also up for best Pop songs against Bey. Jay z’s comment about not being in the right category was directed at swift and his comments about race at the Grammys were a veiled way of saying, this country white lady keeps besting my wife. Now this is their way of saying you can win at pop? Well we can win at country. It may mean nothing to swift but it’s a blatant ploy to try to her Bey a country album award if she can’t win album of the year. Maybe even get her some country music awards too.

You make zero sense. TS has won every country and every pop award. Bey has won zero country or pop awards.

Since 1957 only 11 black artists have won album of the year. 11, in almost 70 years.

I’m pretending that racism isn’t a thing that has impacted virtually everything, but context matters.

How many black people were in the US in 1957 and the ensuing years? Hint: they comprised a very small percentage of american demographics but their numbers have obviously increased since then.

How many black singers were in the top spots and what percentage does that equate to?

If album of the year is a popularity contest, then it is what it is…and there have been far more white Americans than black Americans. Of course, those demographics are shifting.

What are you talking about? The black percentage of the population has been remarkably stable — at about 12% — for many decades. Winning an annual prize in 11 of 70 years = 15%. Can anyone whining about representation here do math?

From 2012 to 2020, statistics showed that black artists received only 26.7% of nominations for the awards show while they represented over 38% of all artists on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.[2]


I’m not whining, I’m stating facts. Here are some statistics for you.

Why are you cherry picking those 8 years?

Yes, I did all the research for that. It was hard, but I just whipped that statistic out in 4 minutes going through billboard data, calculating and chose those years and began calculating!!!

Not really. I used google. It was on a Wikipedia page about Grammy’s and under representation.

I have since found this:

In contrast to the lack of women artists, artists from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups represented over half of 2021’s artists (57.2%). Across the decade examined, people of color represented 47.8% of the more than 1,900 artists on the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End Charts.

Which is even more damning to the Grammy situation.

Can't win them all. Maybe a lot of people just don't like Beyoncé's music? Her screeching hurts my ears, I'd rather not listen to it.

I don’t like listening to Harry Styles or TS but they won. I just do my best not to listen to them. We’re not on the board, so it doesn’t really matter what we think. It does matter if we don’t understand historical perspective.

Boo hoo. Also if non-whites are overrepresented on the billboard charts, that doesn’t ipso facto entitle them to be overrepresented in Grammy Awards. I bet you have the opposite view of that kind of logic when it comes to Asians at TJ!

So you now are arguing billboard charts are suffering from reverse discrimination?
Gotcha. Who cares about TJ it’s a pressure cooker where kids get locked out of the good colleges due to competition anyway.

Nope, try to keep up, I’m arguing the racial percentages of the billboard charts don’t prove anything about discrimination at the Grammys. Move along.

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Anonymous wrote:I love country music but this didn't do much for me. Its top of the charts so clearly i've bad taste. I didn't get costume choice either.

+1. Please put some clothes on!

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Anonymous wrote:

Who has gone from pop/rock to country successfully?

Darius Rucker

He's just a grifter who segued to country when his soft rock career washed up. See also Kid Rock.

Why is he a grifter? He is a successful artist. He also grew up listening to country. I think he started in rock when he was in college at Univ of South Carolina and rock and roll is played in college bars.

Not really sure why Darius Rucker is even appearing in this discussion since the only thing he has in common with Bey is that he's a black crossover artist. But Rucker is legitimately one of the biggest country stars of the last decade, with Wagon Wheel one of the most played country songs of the past several decades. By contrast, Bey just dropped a vanity country album that isn't getting much play at all. I haven’t heard a single track.

Wagon Wheel was a cover song.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon_Wheel_(song)

Yes Old Crow Medicine Show originally sang it. So?

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I don’t like the new country songs from Beyoncé. Don’t know why she is doing this.

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Anonymous wrote:I love country music but this didn't do much for me. Its top of the charts so clearly i've bad taste. I didn't get costume choice either.

It's top of the charts because her husband is an alleged record executive. This is so thirsty and desperate. She needs to just fade gracefully. She's middle aged, get over it you're not a pop star in your prime anymore.

Ugly.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t like the new country songs from Beyoncé. Don’t know why she is doing this.

I don’t like them either. To make a statement. Or get more awards. I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:

Who has gone from pop/rock to country successfully?

Darius Rucker

He's just a grifter who segued to country when his soft rock career washed up. See also Kid Rock.

Why is he a grifter? He is a successful artist. He also grew up listening to country. I think he started in rock when he was in college at Univ of South Carolina and rock and roll is played in college bars.

Not really sure why Darius Rucker is even appearing in this discussion since the only thing he has in common with Bey is that he's a black crossover artist. But Rucker is legitimately one of the biggest country stars of the last decade, with Wagon Wheel one of the most played country songs of the past several decades. By contrast, Bey just dropped a vanity country album that isn't getting much play at all. I haven’t heard a single track.

Wagon Wheel was a cover song.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon_Wheel_(song)

Yes Old Crow Medicine Show originally sang it. So?

I love both versions. Glad Darius Rucker had a hit with it. Also, Bob Dylan wrote it, so there!

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Anonymous wrote:I love country music but this didn't do much for me. Its top of the charts so clearly i've bad taste. I didn't get costume choice either.

It’s just something new and shiny.

I like her older stuff much better, fantastic range of voice.

Plus she beat Taylor swift in recategorizing.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t like the new country songs from Beyoncé. Don’t know why she is doing this.

Money

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