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BEYONCÉ’S COUNTRY ALBUM Cowboy Carter failed to receive a single nomination at the Country Music Association Awards (CMAs) in the US, despite topping the country music charts earlier this year.
While the singer’s eighth studio album was an ode to her southern US roots, Cowboy Carter included a blend of styles including rap, dance, soul, funk, rock and gospel.
It leads listeners through country’s evolution from African American spirituals and fiddle tunes to its pioneering women.
In April, Cowboy Carter became the first album by a Black woman to reach No 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart since its 1964 inception.
It came two months after the album’s first single, Texas Hold ‘Em, became the first by a Black woman to reach the top spot on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart.
The album was five years in the making, a direct result of what Beyoncé has called “an experience that I had years ago where I did not feel welcomed … and it was very clear that I wasn’t”.
This was most likely a reference to racist comments she received after performing what was then her most country song to date, Daddy Lessons, at the CMA awards in 2016.
A Texan raised by a mother from Louisiana and a father from Alabama, Beyonce tackled the perceived “controversy” over her country turn this year on the track “Ameriican Requiem.”
“They used to say I spoke, ‘Too country’ / Then the rejection came, said I wasn’t, ‘Country enough’ / Said I wouldn’t saddle up, but if that ain’t country, tell me, what is?” Beyoncé sings on the track, whose musical allusions include Buffalo Springfield’s classic For What It’s Worth.
The CMA Awards are nominated and voted on by members of the Country Music Association, which includes music executives, artists, publicists, songwriters and other industry professionals.
This year, Morgan Wallen, the controversial country-pop singer who has found enormous streaming success, received the most nominations with seven, including for the coveted “Entertainer of the Year” title.
Chris Stapleton and Cody Johnson received five nominations each.
Lainey Wilson notched four, as did Post Malone, who segued into country this year from his warbling rock-rap. His single “I Had Some Help” features Wallen, and its nominations ushered that artist to the front of the pack.
The awards ceremony will be held on 20 November.
With reporting from © AFP 2024.
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Not going to get a straight answer from them & anyway never mind about the 10% when are we going to see the rest fall back to where it was in jan 2022. They were still making plenty of profit and still gouging us but at least we had a chance of paying it. Electric Ireland have been putting their hands in our pockets for years it’s about time we cut it off. Some of us need electricity for water that’s the sad part of it. They don’t seem to understand that we have other bills to pay. They can’t come first every time. Most of us live pay-check to pay-check. We pay bills as we go, some months you just have to sit back and be quiet because we just don’t physically have the money to give you. And no amount of texts, phone calls and nasty letters will get you the money any faster.
Show me any other necessity of life that is subject to the whims of big business like the electricity supply. It should be protected like water is. Or at least the government should give a 100% grant to fit solar PV panels. The way it is now you have to have the cash to pay for it before you can get them. I don’t know about you lot but I don’t have a spare €15 never mind a spare €15,000-€20,000
@Colm O’Leary: Your smart phone and the price of pints.
@Don Hogan: Why do you presume to know other peoples circumstances? So many are struggling, lucky you if you are not one of them.
@Don Hogan: I don’t know what the price of pints has to do with anything I don’t drink and I haven’t been out to a pub in 5 years and my smartphone is the most basic model, I upgrade only when my old phone dies which is what happened to my last phone. An old iPhone 5 I kept it going long after apple had stopped supporting it.. so if your implying I’m living high on the hog then I’m not. I’m barely scraping by.
This is crazy, this is how we’re driving young people and not only young people just the population out of this country. The big companies are skyrocketing prices and giving us no hope. Record profits year on year, draining our pockets and filling theirs.
So we can read the usual nonsense rhetoric reply….why bother??
I would but had no electricity all morning can’t change my phone still get the bill on time
Bring the whole energy sector into public ownership, then each year have a price increase equal or less than CPI %. No complaints about price gouging then.
You are in government. You have the power to do something about it. You are more than well paid by the people of this country so do something for them for a change instead of just talking about it.
The business sector was hit with hikes before the residential. In June 22 i was paying on a retail unit 55c per unit. From an initial 21c when i had opened the account the July before COVID. I believe it’s fair they reduce it as the price hikes closed us down.. if it returns to normal we wight return as well ..
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