Beyoncé may have packed stadiums and claimed country chart wins, but apparently, that wasn’t enough to prevent her from throwing a pity party in the middle of her Cowboy Carter Tour.
At least, that’s how Megyn Kelly sees it, and honestly, she’s got a damn point.
The former Fox News anchor found herself plastered across Beyoncé’s tour visuals thanks to a blurred-out clip taken from a Sky News interview where she dared to say what a whole chunk of the country world was already thinking. Beyoncé’s cowboy cosplay wasn’t groundbreaking. It was a marketing ploy dressed up like a cultural revolution.
Kelly said that she and her team treated her move into country music as if it were the second coming. All hail Queen Bey. She’s here to rescue country music.
Hard to argue with that. From the moment Cowboy Carter dropped, it was less about the music and more about the spectacle. The narrative that Beyoncé became the first Black woman to top the Hot Country Songs chart was blasted from every speaker, while the actual music, a mixed bag of 27 tracks, got pushed behind a tidal wave of PR spin, celebrity endorsements, and Grammy stage time.
And now Beyoncé is repackaging those few critical voices like Kelly’s into a carefully curated montage of haters, broadcasting them to massive crowds to drum up sympathy and paint herself as the misunderstood savior of country music.
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Let’s not get it twisted. Beyoncé is one of the world’s most powerful, privileged, and well-funded performers. She didn’t sneak into country music through the back door. She rolled in on a platinum tour bus with co-signs from Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton and a budget that most Nashville newcomers couldn’t even dream about.
Yet here she is, scouring the internet for mild criticism to twist into martyrdom. As Kelly pointed out, Beyoncé had to dig deep to find something that let her play the victim, all because big bad Megyn Kelly said something completely mild.
Beyoncé’s fans might scream queen at every turn, but the truth is she’s trying to rewrite the rules of country without doing the hard time most artists have to suffer through. That means years of dive bars, sleeping in vans, opening slots at county fairs, and constant rejection from industry gatekeepers.
Instead, she shows up with a pop-heavy album wrapped in expensive visuals and A-list features and expects the entire genre to bend the knee. When they don’t, she doesn’t take the hit and keep it moving. She frames it as oppression and bakes it into the tour.
That’s not how country works. It’s about roots and grit and earning every damn inch. When someone parachutes in, acts like they’re saving the genre from itself, and then whines when people don’t bow down, they’re going to catch heat.
Megyn Kelly just lit the match. And from where we’re standing, the smoke smells like truth.
