I was waiting for this: Tressie McMillan Cottom on Beyoncé’s genre-busting Cowboy Carter. “The only honest answer is that country music is everything she sings about minus the Black woman singing it.”
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That really is a fabulous piece of writing: it stands alone as excellent even without having paid much attention to the music. Thanks for sharing, as ever.
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