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re: Oh poor thing - Beyonce 'did not feel welcomed' in country music
Posted on 3/21/24 at 6:10 pm to alajones
Posted on 3/21/24 at 6:10 pm to alajones
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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
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.
This post was edited on 3/21/24 at 6:12 pm
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Posted on 3/21/24 at 6:16 pm to FLTech
She should make a country song first.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 6:34 pm to TN Tygah
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quote: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 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.
Anything outside of the general line of thought of these two posts is irrelevant.
How ridiculous of her, already one of the biggest multi genre superstars on the planet, to try to garner any guilt this way while simultaneously having a chart topping song in the genre she’s crying racism over.
It’s only proper that she take the next step down this path and stop selling music, merch and show tickets to all the racist whites.
This post was edited on 3/21/24 at 6:39 pm
Posted on 3/21/24 at 6:44 pm to SidewalkTiger
Don't swallow the bait, my girl has been doing it for over a decade now.
Here's one for you Louisiana folks, Louisiana Man
Spanish Mary
Country Girl with the Carolina Chocolate Drops
If you want someone who has really been championing the cause for black people in that genre (and making great music while doing so), Rhiannon is your best bet. She has chops. She can play with a traditional bluegrass band, blues, anything.
Here they are doing Jackson (Performed at a bluegrass festival. They also performed it at a big Johnny Cash tribute show.
As far as Beyonce goes......show some damn respect and don't show up in a fricking Halloween costume expecting everyone to love you.
Here's one for you Louisiana folks, Louisiana Man
Spanish Mary
Country Girl with the Carolina Chocolate Drops
If you want someone who has really been championing the cause for black people in that genre (and making great music while doing so), Rhiannon is your best bet. She has chops. She can play with a traditional bluegrass band, blues, anything.
Here they are doing Jackson (Performed at a bluegrass festival. They also performed it at a big Johnny Cash tribute show.
As far as Beyonce goes......show some damn respect and don't show up in a fricking Halloween costume expecting everyone to love you.
This post was edited on 3/21/24 at 6:53 pm
Posted on 3/21/24 at 6:49 pm to FLTech
I mean a lot of the backlash has been racist, yes the song sucks and feels like an AI generated song, but some of the comments on social media have been downright racist.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 7:31 pm to Kvothe
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She’s as much of a country singer as Ben Shapiro is a rapper
ACKCHUALLY, Ben to his credit operated well within the bounds of rap, if a bit monotoned, as opposed to the Bee just putting the word texas in a generic song of hers.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 8:31 pm to TN Tygah
I was actually asking to better understand how to make the argument, as I don't know music at the level you seem to.
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