Gavin Adcock isn’t backing down. After the country singer drew criticism for lamenting the fact that Beyoncé, whom he does not consider a country artist, is sitting atop him on the charts, he took to Instagram to stand by his original statement.
“I’m gonna go ahead and clear this up. When I was little kid, my mama was blasting some Beyoncé in the car,” Adcock said in his video. “I’ve heard a ton of Beyoncé songs. I actually remember her Super Bowl halftime show being pretty kick a** back in the day.”
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With all that being said, Adcock still said, “I really don’t believe that her album should be labeled as country music.”
“It doesn’t sound country. It doesn’t feel country,” he said of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter album. “I just don’t think that people who have dedicated their whole lives to this genre and lifestyle should have to compete or watch that album just stay at the top just because she’s Beyoncé.”
He captioned the video, “It just ain’t country.”
Gavin Adcock Vs. Beyoncé
The one-sided Adcock vs. Beyoncé feud began when the former singer discovered he was sitting behind the latter one on the Apple Music Country Album Charts. He addressed the situation during a recent concert, telling the crowd, “You can tell her we’re coming for her f**king a**.”
“That s**t ain’t country music, and it ain’t never been country music, and it ain’t never gonna be country music,” Adcock added.
He then moved to introducing his music, which, by his own admission, is southern rock, not country.
“We’re ’bout to play y’all some southern f**king rock,” he said. “Y’all hit that s**t, boys.”
GRAMMY voters didn’t agree with Adcock’s assessment. Beyoncé wound up taking home the Best Country Album and Album of the Year awards at this year’s ceremony.
She is currently on her Cowboy Carter Tour, which has sold out stadiums across the world. It hasn’t gone off without a hitch, though.
The singer’s flying car suffered a scary malfunction during a recent show when it turned sideways while suspended in the air. Beyoncé didn’t let that get her down, though. She took to Instagram after the show to share pics from the incident, joking, “Sittin’ Sidewayz.”
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