An album that wasn't even created to be a country record won Best Country Album at the Grammy Awards? Alrighty then... This evening at the Grammys, Beyoncé took home the coveted Best Country Album award for Cowboy Carter, which was presented by Taylor Swift, a former winner of this award herself. The mega star beat out Post Malone, Kacey Musgraves, Lainey Wilson and Chris Stapleton for the award. Beyoncé herself noted before she released the record that it was explicitly not a country album, though there were obvious country influences, and many country artists featured on it as well. From legends like Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton to younger artists like Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, Shaboozey and more. She looked pretty stunned to hear her name, walking up to the stage and giving a short and sweet speech about how limiting genres can be, in addition to thanking her family, fans and fellow artists who were featured on the record: "Wow, I really was not expecting this. Wow. I wanna thank God, oh my God, that I'm able to still do what I love after so many years. Oh my god. I'd like to thank all of the incredible country artists that accepted this album, we worked so hard on it. I think sometimes  genre is a cold word to keep us in our place as artists, and I just wanna encourage people to do what they're passionate about... to stay persistent, wow. I'd like to thank my beautiful family, all of the artists  that were collaborators. Thank you, this wouldn't have been this album without you. I'd like to thank God again, and my fans, and I still am in shock. So thank you so much for this honor." You can watch her speech here: Beyoncé's speech as she accepted the #GRAMMYs award for Best Country Album. pic.twitter.com/2k1zYRVdjb — Beyoncé News (@BeyonceHiveNews) February 3, 2025 It will be interesting to hear the reaction from the country music community on this win, but I can't say I'm shocked by this and kind of saw it coming, honestly. I liked some of the songs on the record, but it certainly wasn't my first pick. The 67th GRAMMY Awards are currently airing live on CBS and Paramount+, from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles with Trevor Noah as the host. You can view all of the country nominees below. COUNTRY Best Country Solo Performance: Beyoncé – 16 Carriages Chris Stapleton – It Takes a Woman Jelly Roll – I Am Not Okay Kacey Musgraves – The Architect Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy) Best Country Duo/Group Performance: Beyoncé & Miley Cyrus – II Most Wanted Brothers Osborne – Break Mine Dan + Shay – Bigger Houses Kelsea Ballerini & Noah Kahan – Cowboys Cry Too Post Malone Featuring Morgan Wallen – I Had Some Help Best Country Song: Beyoncé – Texas Hold ’Em Jelly Roll – I Am Not Okay Kacey Musgraves – The Architect Post Malone Featuring Morgan Wallen – I Had Some Help Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy) Best Country Album: Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter Chris Stapleton – Higher Kacey Musgraves – Deeper Well Lainey Wilson – Whirlwind Post Malone – F-1 Trillion AMERICANA/ROOTS Featuring nominations for Sierra Ferrell, Beyoncé, Charley Crockett and more. Best American Roots Performance: The Fabulous Thunderbirds Featuring Bonnie Raitt, Keb’ Mo’, Taj Mahal & Mick Fleetwood – Nothing in Rambling Rhiannon Giddens – The Ballad of Sally Anne Shemekia Copeland – Blame It on Eve Sierra Ferrell – Lighthouse Best Americana Performance: Beyoncé – Ya Ya Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Empty Trainload of Sky Madi Diaz & Kacey Musgraves – Don’t Do Me Good Madison Cunningham – Subtitles Sarah Jarosz – Runaway Train Sierra Ferrell – American Dreaming Best American Roots Song: Aoife O’Donovan – All My Friends Iron & Wine & Fiona Apple – All in Good Time Mark Knopfler – Ahead of the Game Shemekia Copeland – Blame It on Eve Sierra Ferrell – American Dreaming Best Americana Album: Charley Crockett – $10 Cowboy Maggie Rose – No One Gets Out Alive Sarah Jarosz – Polaroid Lovers Sierra Ferrell – Trail of Flowers T Bone Burnett – The Other Side Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood Best Bluegrass Album: Billy Strings – Live Vol. 1 Bronwyn Keith-Hynes – I Built a World Dan Tyminski – Dan Tyminski: Live From the Ryman The Del McCoury Band – Songs of Love and Life Sister Sadie – No Fear Tony Trischka – Earl Jam ALL-GENRE Record of the Year: The Beatles – Now and Then Beyoncé – Texas Hold ’Em Billie Eilish – Birds of a Feather Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe! Charli XCX – 360 Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone – Fortnight Album of the Year: André 3000 – New Blue Sun Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft Chappell Roan – The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess Charli XCX – Brat Jacob Collier – Djesse Vol. 4 Sabrina Carpenter – Short n’ Sweet Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department Song of the Year: Beyoncé – Texas Hold ’Em Billie Eilish – Birds of a Feather Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe! Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars – Die With a Smile Sabrina Carpenter – Please Please Please Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy) Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone – Fortnight Best New Artist: Benson Boone Doechii Chappell Roan Khruangbin Raye Sabrina Carpenter Shaboozey Teddy Swims Additionally, country songwriters Jessi Alexander and Jessie Jo Dillon are both nominated in the Songwriter of the Year category, which is worth noting. Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical: Amy Allen Edgar Barrera Jessi Alexander Jessie Jo Dillon Raye

I hate to say that I saw this coming. After many Beyoncé fans were upset that she was "snubbed" for not receiving any CMA Award nominations, and the Grammy Awards responded by heavily nominating her crossover record, Cowboy Carter, I knew this meant she would be taking home some awards. However, I hoped that the Recording Academy would not give her the esteemed Best Country Album award. She did say verbatim that it was not a country album. "This ain’t a Country album. This is a ‘Beyoncé’ album. This is COWBOY CARTER, and I am proud to share it with y’all!” https://www.instagram.com/p/DFl-vGWR4nF/ While yes, Beyoncé was inspired by the history of country music while making the record, and collaborated with some heavy hitters like Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson, any genuine country fans took one listen to this record and shook their head that nope, it was not country. While I know our readers were less than thrilled to see Taylor Swift say her name when presenting the award, Beyoncé did look truly shocked to receive the award. https://twitter.com/consequence/status/1886237129283432471 During her acceptance speech, the Texas native said that genre is simple a concept used to keep artists complacent in their music, which is why she branched out to make the country-inspired record: “I really was not expecting this. Wow. Genre is a code word to keep us in our place as artists ... I’m still in shock. Thank you so much for this honor.” While I think the walls of genres are bending more than ever, that does not mean the roots that initially defined that genre are being abandoned. This might be a hot take (if you're a fan of Cowboy Carter, please don't cancel me), but I am sure that some people would be really offended if a country record were featured in the Best R&B Album or Best Rap Album categories. I don't see the hatred toward Beyoncé because people don't like her music; I personally like some of the songs on the album. I see the hate directed toward the fact that this album would be a better fit in other musical categories. Because of this, social media is abuzz about her receiving the award. Check out some of the posts. https://twitter.com/whatsdabizness/status/1886235879049396579 https://twitter.com/JoblessALT/status/1886234659543277952 https://twitter.com/StevenHowe365/status/1886239603247686101 https://twitter.com/jesusgamergang/status/1886239510888927330 https://twitter.com/RedFlower1866/status/1886239248677843398 https://twitter.com/NovaOctane/status/1886239211621412881 https://twitter.com/purrfectlyme143/status/1886238987917955146 https://twitter.com/themoonmija/status/1886238955575644394 https://twitter.com/KayleaCrawford/status/1886238944066674968 https://twitter.com/ems_b/status/1886238901297381810 https://twitter.com/NotKennyRogers/status/1886238881818820977 https://twitter.com/eric_crosthwait/status/1886238829331222745 https://twitter.com/johnrich/status/1886236441325248551 While country fans weren't exactly thrilled about the win for Cowboy Carter, it seems everybody was pumped to see Sierra Ferrell become one of the stars of the night, taking home four wins for Best American Roots Performance for “Lighthouse,” Best Americana Album, Best Americana Performance and Best American Roots Song. Sierra has been one of the most underappreciated and underrecognized artists in country music for a while now, but her sophomore album Trail of Tears really seemed to cause people to stand up and take notice of Sierra as one of the best talents in country music. Of course awards shows like the CMA Awards and the ACMs would never recognize an artist like Sierra Ferrell, so while it's frustrating that Beyonce is winning awards in the country category, it's nice to see real country artists like Sierra get the recognition they deserve but don't get from the country awards shows.

Kacey Musgraves isn't going home empty handed from the Grammys, but she is going home with all of social media thinking that she wasn't too happy about Beyonce's "Best Country Album" Grammy award. Beyoncé released her country album (that she clarified "wasn't a country album") Cowboy Carter back in March of 2024. It was certainly a cultural moment, but after it failed to be nominated at many of last year's country music award shows, many assumed that Beyoncé's short stay in the country genre was going to end with nothing to show for it. However, Beyoncé did score a nomination for "Best Country Album" at the Grammys, and the category was a real who's who: Best Country Album: Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter Chris Stapleton – Higher Kacey Musgraves – Deeper Well Lainey Wilson – Whirlwind Post Malone – F-1 Trillion And then tonight, Beyoncé surprisingly won the "Best Country Album" award... and even she was shocked: https://twitter.com/PopCulture2000s/status/1886234850199216375 That win marked the 33rd time Beyoncé took home a trophy at the Grammys, and the first time a black woman won in the category in over 50 years. As historical of a moment as it was, there was plenty of, "Did she really deserve it?" commentary online after she was officially given the award. After all, besides Post Malone, she was going up against some tried and true country music artists in Chris Stapleton, Lainey Wilson and Kacey Musgraves that were also nominated for the award that's generally reserved to those who dedicate themselves to the country genre. And speaking of Kacey Musgraves, after the winner for "Best Country Album" was announced, the internet noticed that the "Deeper Well" singer didn't look all that enthused as Beyoncé walked up to accept her award. Cameras that were focused in on the nominees caught Musgraves applauding for her fellow nominee, but the country artist's face appeared to be telling a different story: Kacey Musgraves is pissed that Beyonce beat her for best country album, look at her face expression #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/AYT6v8UpZa — What's Da Bizness (@whatsdabizness) February 3, 2025 Anyone else notice kacey musgraves face when Beyoncé won? #GRAMMYs #Grammys2025 pic.twitter.com/XtvNvlK6bN — Cloud9ineDreams? (@Cloud9ineDreams) February 3, 2025 kacey musgraves is looking pissed after losing to beyonce icl it tickled me a lil pic.twitter.com/84ujgLnsCv — WOAH (@jadedblkgirl) February 3, 2025 Is Kacey Musgraves mad that Beyoncé won? She sure looks it. pic.twitter.com/4KaUmm5S8r — Eddie Gaona (@eddiegaona) February 3, 2025 Kacey Musgraves… lol #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/GBteaeGdD4 — ronnie✨ (@TheRonnieWilson) February 3, 2025 Kacey Musgraves is MAAAAAAD pic.twitter.com/CK9tn06fUg — Spécial K ? (@KylKF) February 3, 2025 Kacey Musgraves was not too happy with Beyoncé’s win. #Grammys2025 #Grammy #Grammys pic.twitter.com/ZQadidqx4A — ???? (@vibesandlyrics) February 3, 2025 Kacey Musgraves was SO PISSED about Beyonce winning Best Country Album ? #grammys pic.twitter.com/u95FYUm2vg — Don Chenz (@DonChenz) February 3, 2025 https://twitter.com/widowsflms/status/1886237294035620078 https://twitter.com/fcknliisa/status/1886239077294346351 https://twitter.com/jadedblkgirl/status/1886234905698312661 https://twitter.com/arshdhillonk/status/1886234927533822351 The Beyhive needs to chill... INK, one of Beyonce's co-writers on Cowboy Carter, said she actually wrote with Kacey for the album, but none of the tracks made the cut. Kacey has also been pretty vocal about her "resting b*tch face" in the past... but hey, if she actually is pissed about it, I'm not mad at her.

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