A rustic radio station in Oklahoma that acquired criticism earlier this week for not enjoying Beyoncé’s new music ”Texas Maintain ’Em” is now enjoying the tune.
KYKC-FM added the music to its nation playlist, Roger Harris, a normal supervisor for South Central Oklahoma Radio Enterprises, which oversees KYKC, advised CBS Information in an e-mail Wednesday. Harris mentioned it was additionally included in playlists of two different stations it oversees, KCFC-FM and KADA-FM.
The transfer comes after a fan requested ”Texas Maintain ’Em” — a rustic music about Beyoncé’s residence state of Texas — solely to have the request shut down by the station.
The fan posted SCORE’s reply to social media, which learn that ”We don’t play Beyoncé on KYKC as we’re a rustic music station.”
The response generated outcry and accusations of racism on-line from the Beyhive — Beyoncé’s ardent fanbase.
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Harris advised CBS Information that the station initially did not know Beyoncé had launched two nation music songs — ”Texas Maintain ’Em” and ”16 Carriages” — following Tremendous Bowl LVIII, and defined that the response to the fan was a ”normal reply” since KYKC do not play her music — however does on to 2 of its others. As well as, Harris mentioned KYKC did not ”even have the music.”
”As a result of we’re a small station, we do not get serviced by the large labels like larger stations do,” he added.
After emails, calls and extra requests flooded the station concerning the music, Harris mentioned they made an effort to trace it down, listened to it, and agreed that it sounded ”nation.” The station even wrote a publish about it on social media.
”We now have nothing towards Beyonce…and we want her one of the best in her foray into nation music,” Harris advised CBS Information, including that she’s an ”icon.”
”We really want that artists WOULDN’T get boxed in to sure genres or codecs,” Harris mentioned. ”If it is good music, it is good music.”
The KYKC incident echoed an identical sentiment over whether or not race was a think about figuring out genres when Lil Nas X’s music ”Previous City Street” was eliminated from the Billboard Sizzling Nation Chart in early 2019. Billboard justified the choice then by claiming the music ”doesn’t embrace sufficient components of right now’s nation music.”
Nevertheless, it later returned to the charts after Lil Nas X paired up with Billy Ray Cyrus for a remix of ”Previous City Street.”
It is not the primary time Beyoncé has been thrown into an argument associated to nation music. Through the fiftieth anniversary of the Nation Music Awards in 2016, she carried out her music ”Daddy’s Classes” with The Chicks, which wasn’t acquired properly by some nation music followers.
