The Atlantic: "Beyoncé has a better claim to country than Gaga"

[XoXoJoanneGaga 629]

"Paisley is right that pop stars sometimes cross into country, with Nick Jonas, Justin Timberlake, and Rihanna having played the CMAs in previous years. But Beyoncé has a better claim than many. Raised in Houston with a mom from Louisiana, she recorded “Daddy Lessons” not as a pastiche—not as pop-rock with a cowboy hat on like Lady Gaga’s Joanne—but as a meticulous tribute: New Orleans brass, concrete-yet-mythic storytelling about fathers and lovers and whiskey and tea, whoops and harmonica and foot stomps. The Dixie Chicks have taken to covering the song on their recent comeback tour.

At the CMAs, “Daddy Lessons” fit right in, save a few factors. One was the size of the performance. In typical Beyoncé fashion, she led a regiment, filling the stage for a backyard-barbecue that became a Bourbon Street parade with a fabulous sax solo in the bridge. It also stood out for another reason: She and her musicians were some of the only black people at a ceremony celebrating an art-form whose origins, as is well documented, were nowhere near entirely white."

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/11/cmas-beyonce-daddy-lessons-dixie-chicks-country-music-awards-race/506375/

 

Thoughts? I agree that Daddy Lessons makes stronger use of it's Country influences than anything on Joanne, and while Gaga was clearly going for more of a pure pop direction with mere Country tinges, I can see how her dressing it up visually as Country but not going the distance musically would lead to some of the criticisms she's received, even from favorable critics.

 

[LePetitGAGABLover 21,234]

Yawn. Im getting tired of Beyonce tbh

Or perhaps im growing too old for the stan world

[GhettoFabulous 18,501]

Yass good for ha 

 

 

 

gaga still did it better 🌚

[ZiggyZiggs 30,062]

Beyonce probably paid them to write this after all the backlash

[NathanC 938]

I echo the sentiments here... Beyoncé is overrated and annoying... too bad we no longer have Destiny's Child...

[SychosSoChic 9,995]

What does that even have to do with the quality of the music tho?

[yASSsss 35,510]

what a mess of an article.what does it has to do with Gaga  

too bad for them,MI will do better on the charts  

[yASSsss 35,510]

1 minute ago, LePetitMonstr said:

Yawn. Im getting tired of Beyonce tbh

racist  

Spoiler

 

 

[Denys 848]

That's her business! If Gaga performed million reasons there she will be smart enough to go with Hilary Lindsey, that will serve some cred with the country folks. Bey treated the show as an extension of formation tour   she got what she got period! 

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oh no.

[Denys 848]

Just now, Denys said:

That's her business! If Gaga performed million reasons there she will be smart enough to go with Hilary Lindsey, that will serve some cred with the country folks. Bey treated the show as an extension of formation tour   she got what she got period! 

Even if she was on with the Dixie chicks 

[sipthistea 21,099]

None asked for their sh*tty opinion

Beyoncé is just an overrated performer. I wouldn't even label her as an artist. She's just a performer, with good voice. Nothing else. 

[LePetitGAGABLover 21,234]

1 minute ago, NeverTypical said:

Cue "Beyonce is overrated" comments

This article pretty much confirms this. 

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[Bloody 64,631]

Αnother day, another gaga hater *yawns