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Today, Explained

Beyoncé country

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Beyoncé has a new country album. The first single has already broken records and drawn criticism from those who think of country music as a “white” genre. Except it’s not. Author and songwriter Alice Randall tells the story of country music’s very Black roots. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Victoria Chamberlin and Anouk Dussaud, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This ain't Texas.

0:02.0

Ain't no holding.

0:04.0

Beyonce announced the release of her country album, Cowboy Carter, to wild excitement.

0:09.0

She's the first black woman ever to top the Billboard's hot country songs chart.

0:13.5

And of course, rabid nonsense.

0:15.7

Everyone from racists.

0:17.6

They've got to make their mark just like a dog in a dog walk park.

0:21.3

You know, every dog has to mark every tree to

0:24.0

azalea banks don't be a bitch come take it to the floor now whoa tried some version

0:29.8

of the same critique country Country music is white music.

0:33.2

Beyoncé responded, this isn't a country album, it's a Beyonce album, yes.

0:38.8

And also, country music is extremely black and the story of that is coming up on today explaining. We headed to the dive bar. We always thought was nice.

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