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Kacey Musgravesis making her feelings known about the recent decision that has excluded her new albumStar-Crossedfrom the country music category at the Grammys.
The 33-year-old singer’s fifth studio album has reportedly been deemed ineligible for the country album category and will instead compete in the pop category at next year’s award ceremony.
“You can take the girl out of the country (genre) … but you can’t take the country out of the girl,” Musgraves wrote, echoing the lyrics from her 2018 song “Dime Store Cowgirl.”
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“Aint that right, @lorettalynnofficial?” she captioned a shot of her singing withLoretta Lynn.
Other stars she tagged includedShania Twain, George Strait,Willie Nelson,Dolly PartonandReba McEntire, to whom she wrote, “Can’t not ask @reba.”
At the end, Musgraves summed up her feelings with a solo shot of herself onstage flipping the double bird to the audience.
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Musgraves has won seven CMA Awards and three ACM Awards, in addition to her sixGrammy Awards, of which five have been in country music categories.
Mabe asked the Grammys to “fully understand the importance of Kacey Musgraves to country music” in a letter sent to Recording Academy president and CEO Harvey Mason Jr. on Sunday, perVariety.
“The idea that a handful of people including competitors, who would benefit from Kacey not being in the country category, are deciding what is country only exacerbates the problem,” Mabe added, referring to the possibility that Musgraves was excluded from the country category because she would be the favorite to win.
“The system is broken and sadly not just for Kacey Musgraves but for our entire genre because of how these decisions are made for music’s biggest stage,” Mabe continued. “Building roadblocks for artists who dare to fight the system is so dangerous and against everything I think the Grammys stand for. But that’s where we are today.”
Other popular artists to speak up against the Grammys and Recording Academy in recent years includeJustin Bieber, who lamented that his 2020 albumChangeswas relegated to the pop category and not R&B.
Meanwhile,The Weekndboycotted the award show earlier this year after his albumAfter Hourswas completely shut out of nominations.
Nominations for the 2022 Grammys will be announced on Nov. 23.
source: people.com
