Beyoncé, a Black woman, on a stadium tour with a country album reclaiming Black roots of the genre, singing the US anthem with “NEVER ASK PERMISSION FOR SOMETHING THAT ALREADY BELONGS TO YOU” on screen.
The layers.
The power.
The layers.
The power.
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permission something already to you
If you want to perform it, perform it.
You can’t claim or reclaim something that was never yours.
Music transcends race, ethnicity, and gender.
Country music was pioneered by Black artists who’ve long been pushed to the margins of the genre. Reclaiming it was necessary.
But Beyoncé’s point here is wider than music… and it’s flying over your head.
I’d like to hear her do a Christmas album.
She has the voice for it.
It’s just that “urban music” moved away from people actually playing instruments.
There was always black people still into country music.
The genre is more diverse than its given credit for.
I’d like to hear a real Beyoncé country album.
This is not a criteria and certainly doesn’t justify the marginalization of Black country artists; a lot of them featured on CC.
Those are the people I was referring to that play music.
If they get more people into the genre, they will get more black kids into learning to actually play the music.
Too many young people, all all races, aren’t interested in playing music.
The music industry is a business. They don’t limit access to selling records to anybody.
They don’t even care if you like it or not as long as you buy it.
Nobody is erasing history or erasing contributions of black people just because they don’t keep referring to them as black artists rather than just artists.
I didnt need to know that black people play country music to get into it.
I listen to a lot of classical music and not so many
Bringing more black artists into country music will actually get more people into the genre that actually plays instruments and makes music instead of the sampling that many artists do.