cyberdad wrote:
ASPartOfMe wrote:
Fans were disappointed by Monday’s snub and criticized the CMAs for excluding Beyoncé, who had said that she felt unwelcome in the country genre.
Some fans were surprised that "Texas Hold 'Em," the lead single off of "Cowboy Carter," was not given a nod. The song became the first by a Black female artist to top Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart after it was released in February.
Not rocket science really, the chances even one single country fan would spend money on Beyonce music is about as likely as seeing the Klan come together to sing "Negro spirituals". wild guess but suspecting the Billboard numbers are based on Beyonce's existing fanbase popularising her country music, not country fans showing their love for Beyonce.
The World simply does not work in the simplistic way that you think it does.
I used to work for a party deejay company, and the main thing I did for them was to do wedding receptions for young "redneck" couples in rural small towns who get off on songs like "She Thinks My Tractor is Sexy". These same young couples, and their friends, would have been furious if I hadnt included the latest danceable Black gangsta rap hits of the moment in my music mix. The fact is that millions of (at least young) country fans spends millions on Beyonce's music.
It IS true that country fans are mostly White and a large proportion have TRUMP signs on their barns and are also racist. But the relationship between race and music consumption is not as simple as you imagine.
The CMA is close knit club that doesnt like ANY outsiders...be they Canadian White women who grew up on Cree reservations like Shania Twain, or American R+B singers. Are they being racist as well as being general xenophobes now? Its very possible. But you cant get into their heads.
And keep in mind that American Black audiences can be as bad (The Black Eyed Peas had trouble getting airplay on Black stations because they had a White woman lead singer).
"The Klan doing Negro spirituals"? Dude...every decade country artists make money do countrified versions of soul hits originally done by Black artists.
To sum it up...a typical dance party at a small town Lion's club will have a guy asking the DJ if he has any "good n****r music...oh Im sorry...I mean Black...". Not saying country fans are never racist, but that their attitudes are as contradictory and as complex as anything else in life. You need to visit reality once in a while.
10 Sep 2024, 2:46 am
