Country singer Gavin Adcock doesn't believe Beyoncé's Grammy-award winning album 'Cowboy Carter' should be called country. In a now viral video of Adcock during one of his recent concerts, he told the audience that there were "only three people in front of him on the Apple Music country charts, and one of them being Beyoncé."
00:00Country singer Gavin Adcock doesn't believe Beyonce's Grammy award-winning album Cowboy Carter should be called country.
00:07In a now viral video of Adcock during one of his recent concerts,
00:11he told the audience that there were only three people in front of him on the Apple Music country charts, and one of them was Beyonce.
00:17He questioned the 35-time Grammy winner's latest album that notably picked up the coveted Award of Album of the Year at the Grammys, saying it ain't country music.
00:25In terms of competition, he said,
00:27You can tell her we're coming for her. That ain't country music. It ain't ever been country music, and it ain't gonna be country music.
00:35He said he thinks other artists shouldn't have to compete with her on the charts just because she's Beyonce.
00:40The singer then posted a follow-up video on Instagram.
00:43It doesn't sound country. It doesn't feel country.
00:47And I just don't think that people that have dedicated their whole lives to this genre and this lifestyle should have to compete
00:55or watch that album just stay at the top just because she's Beyonce.
01:00Beyonce has been candid that her inspiration for Cowboy Carter emerged after she did not feel welcomed into the country genre in the past.
01:08Beyonce has continued to shatter records with Cowboy Carter.
01:11She notably became the first black woman to top Billboard's Top Country Albums chart,
01:16and at the Grammys, she earned her first album of the year win,
01:19becoming the first black woman to win Best Country Album
01:22and the first black woman to win a country Grammy in 50 years, all for Cowboy Carter.
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