Mickey Guyton, 40, hopes Beyonce, 42, can inspire ‘change’ for black artists in the country music genre: ‘There’s a lot of excitement about it’

Mickey Guyton hopes Beyonce can inspire change for Black artists in the country music genre.

The Grammy-winning star recently released Cowboy Carter, which is widely billed as a country album.

And Mickey has now suggested that the record could have a huge, long-lasting impact on the genre.

The 40-year-old star told the New York Post newspaper Page six column: “I think a lot of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) boards are closing, and… that goes for the entire entertainment industry.

“So I hope she continues the conversation with this,” the artist said.

“And there’s a lot of excitement about, whatever there should be, and about this amazing album that she wrote. So I hope it stays that way.’

Mickey has always been open and honest about the issues she faces as a black artist in the country genre.

And in recent months, several music stars have voiced their support for Beyonce’s country music, including Carlene Carter, who thinks the genre is “lucky” to have her.

Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, Carlene explained, “I thought it was great that she came out with her name as Carter, because she’s married to Jay-Z, and I thought, she’s from Texas, she wanted to make a country record, no one should give her shit. poop on it, you know?

“But they did and I was like, ‘Okay, you can all shut up because she’s Beyoncé and we’re lucky that she even wants to be around us.'”

Carlene also noted that country music is constantly evolving.

She said, “It may not fit into the categories of what people think country is (but) let me tell you, I’ve been there a long time and the country has changed all the time.

“It’s constantly changing, and it’s gone from where she is to where I’ve been to where my mother has been to my grandmother (and) all the way back to someone else who’s going to follow Beyonce.

“It will always be there, so that’s what a country is.”

Last week, Beyonce shared her thoughts on her new album Cowboy Carter.

The Texas-born star said her first country album is the best she’s ever made. “The nice thing about making music is that there are no rules,” Beyoncé said. ‘The more I saw the world evolve, the more I felt a deeper connection with purity.’

The mother of three added that with artificial intelligence and digital filters and programming, she wanted to “go back to real instruments, and I used very old instruments.

‘I didn’t want certain layers of instruments like strings, especially guitars, and organs to be perfectly in tune with each other.’

She added that she wanted some songs to be “raw” and that she was “leaning towards folk.”

The star ended with: “All the sounds were so organic and human, everyday things like the wind, snaps and even the sounds of birds and chickens, the sounds of nature,” she said.

The press release reveals the inspiration behind the album and how each “song is its own version of a reimagined Western film.”

Some of the films that have inspired include The Hateful Eight, Space Cowboys, The Harder They Fall and the recent Oscar-nominated film Killers of the Flower Moon.

The album is considered “a declarative frequency and academic shift as the world prepares for a new shift that redefines and rebuilds what Country and Americana is, and who gets to be involved.”

Beyoncé’s eighth studio album landed on the US charts in nine different genres, including Pop, Hot AC, Country, Rhythmic, Urban and R&B, and made history when Beyoncé became the first black female artist to reach No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and No. 1 on the Hot 100 Chart with a country song.

It also topped the UK charts for four weeks.

The album is about genres, all of them, while being deeply rooted in Country.

‘This is the work of an artist who thrives in her freedom to grow, expand and create without limits. It makes no excuses or asks permission to elevate, amplify and redefine the sounds of music while dismantling the accepted false norms about Americana culture. It pays tribute to the past and honors musical pioneers in country, rock, classical and opera,” the press release said.

The album is a cornucopia of sounds that Beyoncé loves and listened to growing up, between visits and eventually performances at the Houston Rodeo – Country, original Rhythm & Blues, Blues, Zydeco and Black Folk, were added.

‘The album wraps itself in pure instrumentation in a festive authentic gumbo of sounds including the accordion, harmonica, washboard, acoustic guitar, bass ukulele, pedal steel guitar, a Vibra-Slap, the mandolin, violin, Hammond B3 organ, tack piano and banjo. There’s also a lot of hand clapping, horseshoe steps, boot steps on hardwood floors and yes, that’s Beyoncé’s nails as percussion,” the release added.