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Black America Web
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Black America Web
The Beyoncé Effect: The Grammys Switching Up Country Album Categories Leads To Major Side-Eye
Source: Emma McIntyre / Getty The country world is shooketh after Beyoncé came through and crushed the buildings. In March 2024, Beyoncé dropped her country album Cowboy Carter and won the Best Country Album Grammy, and became the first Black artist to win the award. Country artists (who…how can I say this…drive pickup trucks with big tires and cuff the brim of their baseball caps to the point of strangulation) got all upset and forgot that Queen Bey was born and raised in Houston. So to appease the unseasoned folks among us, the Grammys announced that they will have two new categories ahead of the 2026 Grammy Awards: Best Traditional Country Album and Best Album Cover. Related Stories The Best Country Album category has been renamed Best Contemporary Country Album, while Best Traditional Country Album has been added, according to a Grammys news release. Yes, the Grammys have segregated the little award categories so that non-conventional country artists (read Black people) don't win the Grammys for Best Country Album because those who dress up to celebrate a war that they lost can't handle it. Don't believe me? In 2016, Beyoncé performed her song 'Daddy Lessons' at the Country Music Awards. Alan Jackson reportedly walked out, and Travis Tritt was so upset that he went to social media to cry, 'I love honest to God country music and feel the need to stand up for it at all costs. We don't need pop or rap artists to validate us.' Fam, they act like Beyoncé went on stage as Sasha Fierce and spit: 'Hips tik tok when I dance/On that Demon Time, she might start an OnlyFans (OnlyFans).' She literally sang a country song on a country stage, but I know, this isn't about race. According to the Grammys' new definitions, traditional country will be considered '…more traditional sound structures of the country genre, including rhythm and singing style, lyrical content, as well as traditional country instrumentation such as acoustic guitar, steel guitar, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, piano, electric guitar, and live drums.' Traditional country will also include sub-genres, like western, western swing and outlaw country. Sounds like a whole lot of words to say participation trophy. AmIrite? The Beyoncé Effect: The Grammys Switching Up Country Album Categories Leads To Major Side-Eye was originally published on Black America Web Featured Video CLOSE
New York Times
09-04-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
IOC approves more women's teams, new swimming events in adds to L.A. Olympics
The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday approved several adds to the Olympic program for the 2028 Los Angeles Games, including more women's teams in soccer and water polo and new events in swimming and other sports. The women's soccer tournament will expand from 12 teams to 16, making it larger than the men's tournament for the first time in Olympic history. The men's tournament — which is for players under 23 years old, with three exceptions per team — will stay at 12 teams. Advertisement Women's water polo will also expand from 10 teams to 12, pulling even with the number of teams in the men's draw. In swimming, the Olympic 'splash and dash' won't just be for freestylers anymore. The IOC is adding 50-meter events for both men and women in the backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly. After debuting at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, 3X3 basketball will also expand from eight teams to 12 for both men and women. Other additions include: The IOC said its effort to achieve gender equality was a key consideration for the adds. There are now 161 women's events, 165 men's events and 25 men's events on the L.A. program. The L.A. Olympics are also introducing four sports new to the Olympic program — cricket, flag football, lacrosse and squash — as well as bringing back baseball and softball, which featured in Tokyo in 2021 but not in Paris. (Photo of the LA2028 logo: Emma McIntyre / Getty Images for LA28)
South China Morning Post
23-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Showtime: 4 unmissable art exhibitions to keep you cultured
Emma McIntyre: Among My Swan Tiepolo pink (2024) by Emma McIntyre. Photo: courtesy Emma McIntyre / Château Shatto (Los Angeles) / David Zwirner (New York) New Zealand-born, Los Angeles-based artist Emma McIntyre presents 'Among My Swan', her first solo show in Asia. Known for vivid, chromatic abstractions, McIntyre's paintings blend oils with unconventional materials such as oxidised iron to create deeply textured, transformative works. This series explores the alchemical possibilities of painting, drawing connections between the artist's instincts, the forces of nature and art history. Each piece is part of an evolving network of discovery, reflecting her protean and experimental approach to the medium. David Zwirner, 5-6/F, H Queen's, 80 Queen's Road Central, March 25 to May 10; Lynne Drexler: The Seventies Lynne Drexler, Burst Blossom (1971). Photo: White Cube/ Frankie Tyska White Cube presents the first Asian exhibition of works by the late American painter affiliated with the second-generation abstract expressionist movement. 'Lynne Drexler: The Seventies' features never-before-seen chromatic landscapes created during a transformative decade in her career. Influenced by impressionism, fauvism and classical music, Drexler's tessellated compositions radiate kinetic energy and reflect her deep connection to the natural world. This exhibition follows her solo show at White Cube's Mason's Yard in London, marking a continuation of the gallery's representation of her archive.
