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A US radio station that said it would not play a listener’s request for Beyoncé because it was a “country music station” is now airing Texas Hold ‘Em after receiving criticism.
The fan who made the request accused KYKC-FM of “racism and discrimination” and posted the station’s response to his request on X (formerly Twitter).
The post was viewed millions of times and shared by the fan account @BeyLegion.
The Oklahoma station manager later called Beyoncé an “icon.”
In it, the star, who has 32 Grammy Awards and 88 nominations, sings about hoedowns and the accompanying music includes a banjo.
In a statement emailed to the BBC’s U.S. partner CBS News, Roger Harris, general manager of South Central Oklahoma Radio Enterprises, which oversees KYKC, said the song was now on the station’s country music playlist. , as well as those of two other stations. supervises.
In her statement, Harris said the station was unaware that Beyoncé had released two country music songs, adding that the response to the fan was a “standard response” since KYKC does not play her music.
Harris added that KYKC “didn’t even have the song” as it is a “small station” that doesn’t “get service from the big labels like the bigger stations do.”
He said that after emails, calls and requests for the song flooded the station, staff located it and, after listening to it, agreed that it sounded “country.”
“We have nothing against Beyoncé… and we wish her the best in her foray into country music,” Harris told CBS News.
“We really want artists NOT to be locked into certain genres or formats,” he said.
“If it’s good music, it’s good music.”
Four hours after the initial complaint was filed on
Despite being released earlier this week, the song now has over nine million streams on Spotify alone and over 900,000 views on YouTube.