Country star Luke Bryan is pouring cold water on the idea that Beyoncé was snubbed by the CMAs despite producing the chart-topping country album, Cowboy Carter.
Bryan made comments during a recent interview on SiriusXM’s “Andy Cohen Live” that fans of their ‘Bey’ are sure to take issue with.
In fact, he kind of predicts that, pointing out that fans of Beyoncé “come at you” if they don’t get what they want.
The five-time “Entertainer of the Year” suggests that if the pop star wants to garner accolades in country music, she needs to embrace the entire community.
“Everybody loved that Beyoncé made a country album. Nobody’s mad about it. But where things get a little tricky … if you’re gonna make country albums, come into our world and be country with us a little bit,” he said.
“Beyoncé can do exactly what she wants to. She’s probably the biggest star in music.”
“But come to an award show and high-five us, and have fun and get in the family, too. And I’m not saying she didn’t do that. … But country music’s a lot about family,” Bryan added.
“I’m all for everybody coming in and making country albums and all that. But just by declaring that, just because she made one — just ’cause I make one, I don’t get any nominations.”
Luke Bryan – Beyoncé Needs To Do More In Country Music Before Fans Can Claim She Was Snubbed
Luke Bryan also took a stab at addressing some of Beyoncé’s fans and their outrage that she supposedly was ‘snubbed’ by the CMAs.
“Beyoncé has a lot of fans out there that have her back,” Bryan said. “And if she doesn’t get something they want, man, they come at you — as fans should do.”
It would be shocking if fans of Beyoncé didn’t end up pouncing on Luke Bryan’s comments.
Sure, he’s clear about everybody being thrilled about her work in the genre, but it’s those couple of comments that they’re going to latch onto.
“Just because she made one” album she doesn’t automatically earn accolades and her fans get angry “if she doesn’t get something they want” are surely going to irk them even further over the situation.
Will She Embrace Country? Or Is It A One And Done?
Yes, it might have just been one album, but it has been a pretty successful effort. Cowboy Carter made history. The album hit number one on the Billboard Top Country Album chart and the Billboard 200 for music overall.
The first track release, “Texas Hold Em”, reached the top of Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart.
In regards to the “Drunk on You” singer’s comments that Beyoncé remains a bit of an outsider in the country music community, she hasn’t seemed to embrace them exactly. In fact, she’s made it clear she made the album almost out of spite.
She previously noted that the Cowboy Carter project “was born out of an experience that I had years ago where I did not feel welcomed … and it was very clear that I wasn’t.”
Axios reported that Beyoncé’s comments were “widely interpreted as a reference to her 2016 performance at the CMA Awards, which was met with a racist backlash on social media.”
Country legend Dolly Parton also defended the CMAs and suggested Beyoncé was not snubbed but rather – echoing Luke Bryan – said it was an effort to reward other artists who have worked in the genre throughout their careers.
“There’s so many wonderful country artists that, I guess probably the country music field, they probably thought, ‘Well, we can’t really leave out some of the ones that spend their whole life doing that,’” she said.
Parton, whose hit song “Jolene” is covered by Beyoncé on Cowboy Carter, has described the album as “wonderful.”
“She can be very, very proud of, and I think everybody in country music welcomed her and thought that, that was good,” she said.
Everybody is happy that Beyoncé made that one album. But was it worthy of recognition at the CMAs? Clearly, there are more than a few people who do not think so.
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