texas hold ’em
On Super Bowl Sunday, Beyoncé released two country songs – 16 Carriages and Texas Hold ’Em – that elicited a mix of admiration and indignation.
This is not her first foray into the genre, but it is her most successful and controversial.
Beyoncé recently became the first black woman to have a No. 1 song on the country charts. At the same time, country music stations like KYKC in Oklahoma initially refused to play the record because it was “not country”.
Many non-listeners stereotype
