Sunday evening’s Grammy Awards had been historic for Beyoncé Knowles, who made historical past by changing into the primary Black lady to win Finest Nation Album for Cowboy Carter. And apparently, a minimum of one commenter on Fox Information was very vocally sad about that.
On Tuesday’s (February 4) version of The View, Whoopi Goldberg shared a clip of a visitor on Laura Ingraham’s speak present who was incensed by the win and referred to as it “ridiculous.”
“Dolly Parton has 10 Grammys, Frank Sinatra has 11 Grammys. Beyoncé has 35. How is that presumably commensurate with that expertise?” conservative creator Raymond Arroyo argued on The Ingraham Angle. “What individuals don’t know in regards to the Grammys is everyone votes in each style… So principally, Girl Gaga’s catsitter votes for Finest Reggae and Finest Nation Album, in order that’s why you get this ridiculous consequence that has nothing to do with the nation viewers.”
Goldberg, for one, wasn’t taking that insult sitting down.
“Sir, are you conscious that you must be within the music trade to be a Grammy voter, so the cat sitter can not simply vote?” she stated to start out, earlier than rattling off statistics in regards to the historical past of the Grammys and the class will increase that may clarify a few of the artists he talked about.
“Pay attention man, you’ll be able to’t try this. She earned it,” Goldberg stated. “You wish to maintain onto nation music, like white individuals didn’t additionally purchase her nation album. Come on, man. Individuals voted for it. Generally you win. Generally you don’t!”
Sara Haines then chimed in to level out a little bit of historic context about nation music as revealed in a Ken Burns documentary: that the style was a mixture of sounds from Irish immigrants and then-recently-freed slaves. “Nation music was made by everybody for everybody, and it was of the individuals. So it’s very ignorant, and it screams of that,” she stated.
Alyssa Farah Griffin additionally hit the topic with some onerous information, noting, “Beyoncé was already the most-decorated artist on the Grammys since 2023… She has been an icon for 25 years. She’s put out 13 albums. This isn’t any person who’s simply getting praised for one album on this one second.”
Sunny Hostin echoed her cohosts in pointing to historical past and the affect of Black tradition on nation music traditionally, together with the introduction of the banjo, which originates in Africa. “Nation music could be very a lot Black music,” she stated. “It’s very a lot American music. The truth that she’s from Houston, Texas, and grew up on nation music makes it all of the extra acceptable for her to be a rustic music singer.”
“Guess who else beloved Cowboy Carter?” Griffin added. “Dolly Parton!”
Goldberg then piggy-backed on that notice and added, “By the way in which, she was inducted to the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame. Music doesn’t have the problems you might have. Music in regards to the individuals. We like what we like…. Please don’t attempt to make music about ‘us and them.’ It’s all us.”
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