Thompson Square Says Country Doesn’t Need Beyoncé

The band Thompson Square was not happy when Beyoncé’s album “Cowboy Carter” won the Grammy for Best Country Album.

They said it wasn’t so much the music, but the fact that they turned their back on other country artists who have been there for YEARS.

Thompson Square is made up of husband-and-wife duo, Keifer and Shawna Thompson.

Here’s what Keifer said about it,

“It’s just sad that we’re turning our back on ourselves as a genre. You’ve got people who have dedicated their entire life, who are in some of these same categories, who are out there singing their [butt] off every night singing country music because they lived it, they loved it . . . and then you get beat out by somebody who’s not even in the genre.” Then he said, “I think country’s cool enough, and I wish that we could look at it ourselves and go, ‘We’re cool enough, man.'”

He also doesn’t think that out-of-genre collaborations should be the norm for country music, and that country stars behaving like Hollywood celebrities goes against everything the genre stands for.

But apparently Post Malone gets a pass. Keifer said,

“I don’t know Post, but I highly respect what he’s doing . . . [it’s] what Darius did when he came over from ‘Hootie’. He’s embracing the community. He loves country music. I’m not sure Beyonce’s busting out some Haggard in her car, you know.”

Categorised in: Country Music News

This post was written by Cheryl Johnstone