How Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Challenges Us To Reclaim Our History

Why the rejected will always be respected.

Petiri Ira

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Via Vogue

It was only a few years ago in 2016, when Beyoncé’s performance of Daddy Lessons, at the CMA’s sent some prejudiced onlookers into a spiral. Saying she didn’t belong in country, and that she was supposedly appropriating the genre. But now in 2024, Beyoncé has taken back her power and…

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Petiri Ira

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