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One Liner:  Beyonce co-signed Nashville country singer is painful for me to listen to.

Wikipedia Genre:  country

Home: Nashville (via Lexington, KY)

Poster Position: 20
Weekend One Only.
Friday at 3:10.

BMI Stage.

Thoughts:  Well, that is weird.  Her Spotify main photo thing makes her look like an over-make-ep-ed sorority girl from UGA, but her top track on Spotify is Beyonce's Blackbird, which I guess she contributes harmonies to.  Fascinating.  I guess Queen Bey was trying to grab some other black country ladies to add to her "country" album.

Huh, so it appears that she is a country singer who was born in Kentucky, but then adopted and raised in California.  She studied commercial music at Utah Valley University (go Wolverines!), although she is not included on their list of notable alumni on Wikipedia (unlike the winner of Bachelorette season 8 or a Swedish race walker).  She moved to Nashville in 2021 to enter the country music business and through a following on social media scored a record deal.  Her voice is good, but her music is pretty awful - that new breed of country leaning on drum machines and click tracks.

A 2022 EP has great song titles like "Beer Can," "Whiskey Talk," "In the Name of Whiskey," and "Do-Si-Don'tcha."  Ugh.  her next EP, 2023's Trailer Park Barbie, boast some more top tier song titles with "FU-150" and "I Hate Texas."  Some of those songs are repeated on her one album - 2023's 8 song Buckle Bunny.  The title track was her biggest song, with 7.2 million streams.

Ugh.  Just painful to listen to.  I'm sure there is a whole pack of people line dancing to this in Sherman, Texas right now, but what an awful song.  Just feels so contrived - every word intended to call out some piece of cowboy/blue collar style.  Very much hate it.  Since then, another track, on the deluxe version of this album, grabbed the crown of most streamed song.  "Love You a Little Bit" is much more traditional (well, in modern Nashville style traditional), and fascinatingly, it has more streams than the Beyonce song.  32.2 million streams.

Not my thing.  Like, I can hear how this sort of sentiment would hit with young people and all of that, but the cheesy production and the goofy video just turn me entirely off.  Hard no from me.