Cultural Appropriation by Beyoncé

In Beyoncé's March 2024 album Act II: Cowboy Carter leans into country music. But this is strange for a woman who actively campaigned against American interests, American public safety and the American flag, in Black is King (2016) and Black Parade (2020). The lucrative country music scene is what Beyoncé seems to be after. Beyoncé culturally appropriated Indian culture back in 2016 with a Coldplay music video, and so this seems to be part of a pattern.

Sources:

Clarisse Loughrey, "Beyonce accused of 'cultural misappropriation'", The Independent, https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/beyonce-accused-of-cultural-appropriation-in-coldplay-s-hymn-for-the-weekend-music-video-a6843256.html

Ifeanyi Nsofor, Esther Ngumbi, "Opinion: We are Africans", NPR, https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/08/07/899421948/opinion-we-are-africans-heres-our-view-of-beyonc-s-black-is-king

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