Beyoncé surprised the world by releasing “Texas Hold ‘Em” and “16 Carriages” during the Super Bowl and announcing she would drop a full-length album on March 29.
An actor who starred in a sitcom featuring a car with a confederate flag has compared Beyoncé to a dog following her surprise release of two country songs.
According to Newsweek“Dukes of Hazzard” actor John Schneider recently appeared on the OAN network, where he attacked the entertainment industry for not allowing conservatives to gatekeep country music.
“They’ve bought to make their mark, like a canine at a canine walk park,” Schneider stated of the “lefties,” “you know every dog has to mark every tree, so that’s what’s going on here.”
Beyoncé surprised the world by releasing “Texas Hold ‘Em” and “16 Carriages” during Super Bowl LVIII, sharing news that she would drop a full-length album on March 29.
Schneider, who also had a key role in Tyler Perry’s “The Haves and the Have Nots,” was not the one one displeased by her transfer. Several nation radio stations declined to play her songs.
Business Insider reported {that a} member of the Beyhive shared through X on Feb. 13 – two days after its launch – that he acquired a rejection e mail after requesting Oklahoma’s nation music station to play “Texas Hold ‘Em.”
The X user included a screenshot of the email, which quoted KYKC’s station supervisor, Roger Harris, saying, “We do not play Beyoncé on KYKC as we are a country music station.”
Several followers condemned the perceived snub on social media and others contacted the station demanding they right the error, prompting KYKC to later announce that it might play “Texas Hold ‘Em.”
A spokesperson from South Central Oklahoma Radio Enterprises (SCORE), the station’s mother or father firm, reportedly stated Harris was unaware of Beyoncé’s pivot to nation music.
Harris – who stated he would have responded equally if somebody requested a Rolling Stones track – famous that the station initially didn’t even have Beyoncé’s track file so as to add to the station’s playlist.
Director Ken Burns explored the historical past of nation music and Black individuals’s contribution to it for his 2019 documentary, “Country Music,” analyzing African and African-American music and devices’ contributions to growing the style, Newsweek reported.
“African-American style was embedded in country music from the very beginning of its commercial history,” historian Bill C. Malone says within the documentary. “You can’t conceive of this music existing without this African-American infusion. But then, as the music developed professionally, too often, African-Americans were forgotten.”
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