Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly recently responded to pop star Beyonce’s winning Best Country Album at the Grammys. The former Fox News host zoomed out, tallying up Beyonce’s 33 Grammy awards over the years, which is astonishing compared to the great artists throughout history, who have far fewer. This led Kelly to conclude that the singer was vastly “overrated.”
Beyonce made her foray into country music last year with “Cowboy Carter.” The album was met with critical acclaim by fans of Beyonce and the mainstream music industry. However, it received a far less welcoming review from traditional country music fans, who lament the watering down of the genre with pop undertones. Some country enthusiasts thought a more tried-and-true country artist like Chris Stapleton or Lainey Wilson should have won the award.
Kelly said during a segment of “The Megyn Kelly Show” on SiriusXM, “Beyonce, she’s won 33 Grammys, including for Best Country album last night.” She then pointed out how many Grammy’s some of the most critically acclaimed artists of all time have received. “Frank Sinatra got 11 Grammys. The Beatles won seven. Judy Garland, two,” she said. Kelly concluded, “Beyonce, 33, most overrated artist of all time.”
The political commentator then cited industry insight from John Rich. “Listen to what John Rich tweeted. Folks are asking me, How do music award shows work? He writes, labels and publishers all have blocks of votes. They make deals with each other. You vote for mine, we’ll vote for yours. Type thing, it has zero to do with who made the best music. Thus, Beyonce with country Album of the Year. Nice, right? The same thing is true with the CMAs, the ACM’s, Billboard, etc. All work exactly the same. Last night the Grammys outed themselves in a big way.'”
Building on Rich’s claims, Kelly said, “We’re not buying it, we know what happened and how she got this award, and how she got her 33 Grammys, when you’ve got two for the Judy garlands of the world.” However, This isn’t the first time Kelly has taken issue with Beyonce’s music, addressing the pop star’s cover of Dolly Parton’s hit song “Jolene” last year.
Criticizing the message of the new cover, Kelly said, “And it’s much more, like, threatening, which I guess Beyoncé and Team Bey think is what empowerment looks like. For now, the threatened woman is just threatening to another woman who she thinks might have designs on her life partner.” She added, “And I have to say, I don’t find this empowering at all.”
Kelly continued. “There’s something strange about what’s happening with the modern day definition of what a strong woman is. You can’t have any vulnerabilities or insecurities. You have to be this bada** b**** who’s, like, threatening, ‘F***ing a, you mess with my man.’ And it’s to me, it’s a turnoff. … The true power move is not to worry, and not to have to worry. But Beyoncé couldn’t quite get there…”
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Watch Kelly’s commentary on the Grammy’s below:
“Why did we have to go from women shouldn’t work, women should only have babies, women aren’t strong, women are too emotional, women have to be locked up for their hysterics if they express tears or anxiety,” Kelly said. “To women have no emotion, women are total ballbusters, and showing any softness, tears, empathy, vulnerability, insecurity is somehow non-feminine, and no longer acceptable in what an ideal woman is.”
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