Beyonce slammed by country legend over Grammy win amid DEI push to make awards more diverse

Country euphony fable John Rich has slammed Beyonce for winning Best Country Album astatine Sunday's Grammy Awards amid backlash implicit the show's determination to go much divers and inclusive. 

In a fiery station connected X (formerly Twitter), the singer-songwriter, 51, exposed however voting for awards shows similar the Grammys truly works, portion besides claiming that Beyonce doesn't sing state euphony - contempt the Cowboy Carter hitmaker sweeping the state categories astatine this year's ceremony. 

'Folks are asking maine "how bash euphony grant shows work?" Labels/publishers each person blocks of votes,' helium explained.

'They marque deals with each different "you ballot for mine, we'll ballot for yours" benignant thing,' helium continued.

'It has ZERO to bash with who made the champion music, thus, Beyonce with "Country medium of the year." 

'Nice, right? The aforesaid happening is existent with the CMA's, ACM's, Billboard, etc... each enactment precisely the same.'

He finished, 'Last night, the Grammy's outed themselves successful a large way.' 

When a instrumentality past responded by saying, 'I did not recognize Beyoncé sang state music', Rich bluntly responded, 'She doesn't.' 

Beyonce took location some Best Country Album and Album of the Year for Cowboy Carter, successful summation to Best Country Duo/Group Performance with Miley Cyrus for II Most Wanted.

Her triumph comes aft Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. made large changes to diversify the Grammy voters aft taking implicit successful 2020.

In summation to adding 3,000 pistillate voting members, Mason Jr. has besides accrued the radical diversity. 

'The Grammy electorate is present younger, astir 40 percent radical of color, and 66 percent of our members are new,' helium boasted. 

'It's a strategy rooted successful fairness, integrity, and the rule that each dependable successful our assemblage matters.'

He added, 'There's inactive enactment to beryllium done, but I firmly judge we’re connected the close path.'

Fans person sounded disconnected astir the initiative, with immoderate supporting it portion others person labelled this year's ceremonial the 'DEI Grammys.' 

'It's not mislaid connected maine that aft the Grammys reorganized their voting body, the ceremonial present feels person to accurately reflecting the culture,' wrote one. 

'Honestly, shoutout Harvey Mason Jr. for highlighting the value and maturation of diverseness successful the Grammys unit and voting members during specified a disgusting clip of hatred and bigotry,' wrote another.

'Now you've go the DEI Grammys,' complained a third.  

Some euphony fans are adjacent convinced that this year's Grammy Awards were rigged aft Beyoncé won the accolade for Best Country Album. 

Many radical tuning successful connected February 2 claimed that the result was fixed and referenced Beyonce's hubby Jay-Z, who lambasted the Recording Academy industry at the 2024 ceremonial aft his woman failed to triumph an award. 

Taking to X, 1 idiosyncratic posted a photograph of Beyoncé's winning look and captioned it: 'Beyoncé won the Grammy for the champion state album. Even she knows it's rigged.'

A 2nd posted: 'Let's beryllium honest... cipher listened to that album, the Grammys person ever been rigged and Jay-Z bought that prize for her.'

A 3rd idiosyncratic commented: 'Beyoncé shows up close earlier she wins champion state medium of the year???

'And you expect radical to judge the Grammys aren't rigged? Right…'

Someone other said: 'Remember erstwhile Jay Z threw a acceptable astatine past year's Grammys and past SOMEHOW Beyoncé wins Country Album of the year? Tell maine this isn't arsenic rigged arsenic the NFL?' 

During her acceptance speech, Beyoncé told the star-studded crowd: 'Oh, my god. Wow. I truly was not expecting this. Wow. I privation to convey god. Oh, my god. That I americium capable to inactive bash what I emotion aft truthful galore years.

'I would similar to convey each of the unthinkable state artists that accepted this album. We enactment truthful hard connected it,' she continued.

'I deliberation sometimes, genre is simply a acold connection to support america successful our spot arsenic artists, and I conscionable privation to promote radical to bash what they're passionate about. And to enactment persistent. Wow.'

She concluded her epic code by thanking her household - including girl Blue Ivy, 13 - and everyone who helped her enactment connected the critically-acclaimed project.