Beyoncé dropped the Cowboy Carter cover art, a polarizing image that finds her sitting atop a white stallion in full red, white, and blue western gear while holding up a cutoff American flag. Both announcements immediately set the internet ablaze (for different reasons).
, part of which seemingly nodded to the icy reception she infamously received at the 2016 Country Music Awards. “This album has been over five years in the making. It was born out of an experience that I had years ago where I did not feel welcomed…and it was very clear that I wasn’t,” wrote the Grammy-winning legend.
The negative uproar made a loud statement about the lack of amplification of Black artists in country music. More than that, it uncovered the cruel side of the genre that’s continuously snubbed itsin banjo-playing enslaved Africans.
"What Beyoncé is telling through her album cover art is a story as old as time, as old as this country,” says Dallas music, pop culture, and politics journalist Taylor Crumpton. “Despite being the workforce, the reason why the United States was able to become an economic success, the descendants of those who are responsible for its wealth and momentum impact are denied or exempt from any type of participation in the culture that they built.
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