September 09, 2024 07:20 PM IST
The disrespect for Queen Bey at the Country Music Association Awards continued until 2024 after the infamous 2016 brawl.
Unfortunately, the Country Music Association Awards made no plans to mend their relationship with Beyoncé this year. The CMAs again failed to honor the “Cowboy Carter” musician even though she delivered one of the biggest country albums of the year.
Queen Bey’s 2024 record, which she intentionally branded as the “Beyoncé Album” rather than the “Country Album” ahead of its March 29 release, made history this year, topping Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart for four weeks — making her the first Black woman to break this untouched milestone. From that same album, her lead single, “Texas Hold Em,” also made her the first Black woman to firmly hold the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart — a feat that lasted a full ten weeks.
Despite beginning a new chapter around Black artists’ claim in a genre that often kept the community away from the mainstream spotlight, Beyoncé has once again been snubbed by the CMAs. One can’t help but wonder about the skeletons locked deep inside the record-breaking artist’s closet, as when, in 2016, the same awards chain shamed her for performing “Daddy Lessons” with the Dixie Chicks, limiting her artistic essence to that of a pop artist and nothing beyond that.
His latest album, while revisiting cultural conversations around the music’s roots, perhaps also addresses an old heartbreaking CMA moment, which brought home the “criticism (he faced) when he first entered this genre,” as his March Instagram post explained. However, the circle of artistic life collapsed again on September 9, when nominations for the 2024 Country Music Association Awards again denied him a well-deserved position among the other candidates.
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