re: Oh poor thing - Beyonce 'did not feel welcomed' in country music

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I think this is the bigger issue. Maybe she is a real country and western fan, but this Texas song is just lame and doesn’t exactly reek of authenticity

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Because it’s not. It’s pandering nonsense. You can’t just talk about Texas and put Beyoncé on it and say “see? It’s country!” There’s 75 or more years of evolution of country music. She did nothing to honor the tradition or the modern style of country, she just threw some shite together and sang her normal voice over it, which does not fit the vocal inflections, twang, or tone of country music, at all. Even her vibrato is total R&B. No one would be calling Aretha Franklin country if she added a pedal steel to “RESPECT.”

We give Florida Georgia Line crap for being disingenuous. They pay infinitely more homage to country tradition than Beyoncé did.

She’s as much of a country singer as Ben Shapiro is a rapper after that rap song came out. He didn’t pull the anti semitic card when he got flak though.