‘What Do U Expect the White Woman to Say’: Beyoncé Fans Outraged After Dolly Parton Seemingly Sides with CMAs Shocking Snub of Queen Bey’s Country-Inspired Album
It’s been over a week and Beyoncé fans are still outraged after learning that the singer’s “Cowboy Carter” album had not received any nominations for the upcoming Country Music Awards.
But now the Beyhive’s fury has been refueled after country veteran Dolly Parton had a few thoughts of her own on the snubbing. The 10-time Grammy award-winner seemed to hold doubt that Beyoncè’s lack of nominations was done on “purpose.”
Dolly Parton seemingly defends the CMA Awards after Beyoncé received not one nomination for her “Cowboy Carter” album. (Photo @dollyparton/Instagram; @beyonce/Instagram )
In a Sept. 17 Variety interview, Parton said, “Well, you never know. 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. But I didn’t even realize that until somebody asked me that question.”
Parton, who is known as a country music legend, was credited twice on the “Cowboy Carter” project. On the first, Parton lent her own voice to the ninth track called “Dolly P” which serves as an intro to the second song — Beyonce’s rendition of Parton’s 1973 hit song “Jolene.”
The second song that involved Parton called “Tyrant” is a track where country meets R&B. In fact, Parton’s feature earned her a first-time spot on seven Billboard charts — six of which are in an R&B genre.
“But it was a wonderful album,” the 78-year-old continued. “She can be very, very proud of, and I think everybody in country music welcomed her and thought that, that was good.”
Parton ended her thoughts on the matter of Queen Bey not receiving any nominations. She said, “So I don’t think it was a matter of shutting out, like doing that on purpose. I think it was just more of what the country charts and the country artists were doing, that do that all the time, not just a specialty album.”
Annoyed fans reacted to Parton’s response, which was reposted on The Jasmine Brand’s Instagram. Two