Beyoncé Won Best Country Album Grammy and Trolls are Triggered

Beyoncé reacts to winning Best Country Album

If a woman’s husband had a billion dollars, what would she want, and what would she do if he said no? Those questions bring me to the unfounded gossip buzzing around Beyoncé Knowles’s Grammy win for Best Country Album.

What Happened

Singer Beyoncé Knowles won Best Country Album at the 2025 Grammys, and trolls have lost it on social media. In a photo taken at the moment her win was announced, you see the pure shock on her face. It’s a genuine moment of surprise, as she sits there stuck in motion. Her husband, rap mogul Jay-Z, and daughter, Blue Ivy, were there to share the moment, and their absolute joy is caught in the photo as well. For Beyoncé, it was probably a moment she’d dreamed of but didn’t really expect, especially since she’s been snubbed at other award shows. Her Grammy win for her haters was the moment they’d been dreading.

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See, in 2016, Beyoncé released a country song called “Daddy Issues”. In this song, she got to engage with a different style of music from a different place within her. But the haters tore her down, mostly from within the country music industry itself. Although country music is rooted in Black origins, it has since been saturated with mostly white guys from the south with big beards who drink beer and shun African Americans. The country music space can be overtly manned by racists. It wasn’t a surprise they attempted to slam the door in the face of Beyoncé.

Reflecting on this while confirming that she would indeed be releasing a country album in 2024, Beyoncé wrote on Instagram, ‘This album has been over five years in the making… It was born out of an experience that I had years ago where I did not feel welcomed … and it was very clear that I wasn’t.” This album was clearly personal for her and something she was determined to do. Most people would have taken the hint and walked away. The rejection from the country music community would have taken the fight out of them.

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But Beyoncé had a vision that extended beyond the gatekeepers of American country music. She wasn’t talking to them with Cowboy Carter. She was talking to herself and anybody who so chose to listen. Her album wasn’t based on pleasing the masses or folding under the judgement of the haters.

Undoubtedly, her hard work and dedication paid off because Cowboy Carter hit number one on the charts of three different countries: America, the United Kingdom and Australia. This country album was the first by a Black woman to go to number one on the Top Country Albums chart. In 2024, Cowboy Carter was the bestselling country album. Her single “Texas Hold ’Em” topped Billboard’s country song chart and the all-genre Hot 100 chart, and this was the first for a Black woman. It’s crazy that in this year we’re still saying, “The first Black person to…” but at least new achievements are being made. This is why Beyoncé’s Grammy win is both significant but insignificant to her.

Beyoncé’s Opinion of Her Music Matters

Beyoncé’s Grammy win is important for those coming behind her and those watching her. It signifies for them, for now, that hard work is recognized. It’s proof that not being accepted doesn’t mean not creating. It means the opposite. This solidifies that idea for them. The actualities of the outcomes can be debated at a later date.

Beyoncé’s Grammy win is insignificant on a personal level for her because, with or without the acknowledgement of the Grammys, she’d already made the album, and it has already broken records. This album was personal for Beyoncé. The greatest reward for her was creating it.

For some reason, people find comfort in tearing down the accomplishments of others. They scroll their spotty screens and stop at the moment something positive is mentioned. They seethed at the idea somebody they don’t like achieved something they feel that person shouldn’t have. They are a special kind of miserable. They’re the miserable that can be only be around a person who’s doing terribly in life. They feel threatened by any person who’s bettering themselves. Beyoncé is a lighting rod for this type of baseless, insecurity-filled hate.

Regardless of what the haters say, Beyoncé completed this album. And the she broke records with it. For every hater, ten people bought her album. It comes across as a win for Beyoncé and an L for her haters.

The Takeaway

Beyoncé was initially rejected by the country music community when she released the song “Daddy Issues.” Their rejection didn’t stop Beyoncé from completing her country album Cowboy Carter. The album was received well across the world, charting at number one in three countries. Beyoncé has now won a Grammy for Best Country Album. This was a well-deserved but unnecessary award for her. It does more for the morale of her fans than it does validating her talent, since she already knows what she’s capable of. The hate against her for this album and related accomplishments are nothing more than the mutterings of the miserable.

This article was written by Jermaine Reed, MFA, the Editor-in-Chief of The Reeders Block. He also works an Adjunct College Professor. Join the email list to get notifications on new blog posts and books. This article is 100% human-written. And remember, if you see an error, that’s what makes us human.