‘That S— Ain’t Country Music’
The singer Country Gavin Adcock spoke out against “Cowboy Carter” by Beyoncé, declaring in a recent live performance “That Shit Ain’t Country Music”.
Adcock put Beyoncé in the reticle after opposing that “Cowboy Carter” was ahead of other discs on the Country Apple Music list. “One of them is Beyoncé, you can tell him that we come for her fucking ass,” he said. “This shit is not country music and it’s never country music and it will not be country music.”
Adcock, who was nominated for the new male artist of the year at the 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards, then published a follow -up on social networks explaining the reasoning behind his words for “Cowboy Carter”, which won the album of the year at La Grammys in February.
“I’m going to go ahead and clarify this,” he said. “When i was a little kid, My Mama Was Blasting Some Beyoncé in the Car. I’ve Heard a Ton of Beyoncé Songs and I Actually Remember Her Super Bowl Halftime Show Being Pretty Kick-Ass Back in the Day. But I Really don Believe her album Should be labeled as country music. Sound Country, it doesn’t feel country, and i just don think that people that have dedicated their white lives to this genre and this lifestyle should have to compete or watch that album just stay at the top just because it is beyoncé.
Beyoncé previously explained that the idea of ”Cowboy Carter” came to her after having lived an experience in which she “felt well received” by the country music establishment. “It was born from an experience that I had years ago when I did not feel welcomed … and it was very clear that I was not,” she said on social networks. “But, because of this experience, I plunged more deep into the history of country music and studied our rich musical archives.”
She probably referred to her performance as “Daddy Lessons” at the Country Music Association Awards in 2016 alongside the group then known as Dixie Chicks. Even after having released “Cowboy Carter” and broke several records with the album, she was excluded from the nominations for this same program, causing a reaction against the institution.
Adcock, meanwhile, is preparing for the release of his new album “My Own Pire Enemy” on August 15. It should then open its doors for Morgan Wallen on four of the singers “I’m the problem” in Miami Gardens and Toronto.
