Beyoncé’s wins at this year’s Grammys after the artist was criticised on a Fox News show.Beyoncé won the Grammy for Best Country Album and Album Of The Year for ‘Cowboy Carter’, her eighth studio album.
She beat other nominees including Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan, Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter and Taylor Swift.Following the awards, conservative author Raymond Arroyo appeared on Fox News show The Ingraham Angle, hosted by Laura Ingraham, where he said that Beyoncé’s wins were a “ridiculous outcome that is nothing to do with the country audience or the country musicians”.He continued: “The country artists are not really happy about this.
I’m gonna put this in some context, Laura: Dolly Parton has 10 Grammys. Frank Sinatra had 11 Grammys. Beyoncé has 35. How is that possibly commensurate with that talent?
I mean come on.”Arroyo then remarked that Beyoncé’s awards success was because “everybody votes in every genre”, and that “Lady Gaga’s cat sitter votes for best reggae and best country albums”.Speaking on US daytime show The View, Goldberg hit back at Arroyo, saying: “Sir, are you aware that you have to be in the music industry to be a Grammy voter?
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