PERSPECTIVE: The Complex Beyonce-Country Predicamen
t By Mona Austin In making country songs, Beyonce is proving that she is the artist that no category can hold. Currently multiple singles from her debut country album "Cowboy Carter" are in the top 10 across several charts. Instead of garnering support across the board her foray into country was shunned by many social media users aNd members of "the establishment." Maybe her success in country has been controversial to some country fans because they do not want to respect her ability to master and dominate everything she does as some members of the Beyhive have deduced. There is more to the issue than that, however. Core fans being resistant to "genre-hopping" is not new. When Tori Kelly (and to a lesser extent Kanye and Snoop Dogg) entered the realm of Gospel fans raised the red flag as well. Two of these non-gospel artists won Grammys for their respective albums. Snoop (who has never won a Grammy BTW) collaborated with gospel royalty, The Clark Si...