“The idea of what country music is has been carefully constructed to seem like it was always white,” she says. I ask her why people don’t know the history of country music. This is not her first rodeo: She’s got this answer down to a science. “White supremacy,” she tells me...
Maren shared that after the Trump presidency, she noticed biases were on full display. Some people in the industry's genre were "proud to be misogynistic and racist and homophobic and transphobic. All these things were being celebrated, and it was weirdly dovetailing with this hyper-masculine ...
The music business is a high-stakes, high-risk venture, and it's not unusual for artists to wind up in court to defend their interests, as we'll see in this gallery of the nastiest country music lawsuits. In fact, the list of artists who've been involved in litigation is a lengthy ...
their popularity in country music circles never fully recovered.. When current superstar Morgan Wallen was caught saying racist slurs, his supporters kept his album "Dangerous: The Double Album" at the top of the charts for weeks after the backlash. In the year...
When the senseless deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other Black men and women prompted worldwide protests and a nationwide reckoning with the United States' racist history and systems, country musicians, fans and industry members, too, were forced to takea good, hard look at inequality...
Lainey Wilson's Entertainer of the Year win at the 2023 CMA Awards was as unexpected as any in country music history. That's not to say she isn't deserving — if fact, we laid outa pretty good casewhy she is. The attention was on Morgan Wallen, with most people wondering if he'd ...
When CMT pulled Jason Aldean's "Try That in a Small Town" music video in mid-2023, they didn't say specifically why they were doing so, but it was easy enough to read between the lines, since critics of Aldean's song and music video weredenouncing its racist undertones and glorification...
Southlake was the subject of a six-part MSNBC podcast, detailing its racist history and current battles over critical race theory in schools. The city has been thrust into the spotlight multiple times in recent years when videos surfaced of high school students chanting the n-word. ...
Well, it certainly dug up his problematichistoryof making homophobic, racist and misogynistic jokes, which doesn't do much to dispel the negative stereotypes around country music. For his part, Shelton took it in stride and went with his typical good ol' boy humor. "I can't wait to shove...
Beyoncé later called Swift back onstage to finish her speech, but the moment has been named as one of the most shocking in recent music history. Bonus Fact: Brooks & Dunn also announced they were breaking up. ~ Billy Dukes 2010: CMT hosts its first CMT Artists of the Year event ...