Tina Knowles denied her alleged response to Dolly Parton's comments on Beyonce's 2024 CMA Awards snub.
via: Us Weekly
“This is fake not from me!” Tina, 70, commented under an Instagram post by the celebrity news account The Neighborhood Talk on Thursday, September 19, in response to a screenshot of a comment attributed to her.
The fake comment in question appeared to take issue with Parton’s stance on Beyoncé receiving no nominations at the CMAs for her country-inspired album, Cowboy Carter. Parton recently said that she didn’t think the CMAs were “shutting out” Beyoncé “on purpose.”
Parton, 78, also questioned whether awards voters simply opted for other artists who have been recording country music their entire careers.
“Oh Ms. Dolly, we love you, but Bey did spend her WHOLE life workin’ hard since she was 9! She got country roots too,” the comment purported to be from Tina reads. “She’s mastered her craft and broken records in EVERY genre. So sayin’ she didn’t ’spend her life’ in country music dismisses all the work she put in.”
“Bey don’t need to stay in one lane to get respect — her talent and work ethic speak for themselves! She’s been puttin’ in the work, and nobody else gets asked to ‘spend their life’ in one place to be recognized! #beencountry,” the fabricated comment continued.
In an interview with Variety published on Tuesday, September 17, Parton said she didn’t think Beyoncé was intentionally snubbed from country music’s biggest night.
“Well, you never know. There’s so many wonderful country artists that I guess, probably, the country music field, they probably thought, ‘Well, we can’t really leave out some of the ones that spend their whole life doing that,’” the “9 to 5” singer said.
Parton admitted she initially “didn’t even realize” that Beyoncé, 43, didn’t get any recognition for Cowboy Carter, which features a cover of Parton’s iconic song “Jolene.”
“But it was a wonderful album. She can be very, very proud of, and I think everybody in country music welcomed her and thought that that was good,” Parton continued. “So I don’t think it was a matter of shutting out, like, doing that on purpose.”
While Beyoncé has yet to publicly comment on her lack of nominations, her father and former manager Mathew Knowles criticized the move in an interview with TMZ on September 9.
“There’s more white people in America and unfortunately they don’t vote based on ability and achievements,” he said. “It’s still sometimes a white and Black thing.”
Mathew, 72, said the snub “speaks for itself,” adding, “In America, there’s no accountability for people not being accepting of other cultures.”
I've noticed a pattern with Tina. Every time she puts her foot in her mouth and acts like her daughter's publicist, when she gets dragged on social media she either plays in our faces by denying she was being shady, or she claims she was hacked on social media.
I can see why she can't keep a man. That RBF and stank attitude can be quite exhausting to be around.
As for her daughter, Beyoncé is doing something that's way beyond accolades and collecting awards, and that's starting a conversation about black artists and where they fit in the country music space.
As an artist, it's great to be acklowledged by your peers and receive a pat on the back for all your hard work in the form of an award. So now that you've won said award, now what? What exactly does that award do for you besides sit at home on a mantle?
A true artist is more concerned about putting out a body of work that will last the test of time and will have you thinking instead of pandering for an award.
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