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‘We Were a Part of History’
Beyoncé and the Chicks’ audacious CMAs set, and the volatile reaction offstage, as told by its background performers.
On that fraught evening, days before the 2016 election, she joined forces with the Chicks and blessed Nashville with a surprise performance of “Daddy Lessons,” Lemonade ’s genre curveball and the singer’s first dalliance with a country-infused sound. Although Beyoncé’s outlaw R&B-meets-backcountry storytelling got much of the live audience on their feet, her appearance also upset traditionalists, sparking a heated is-she-country-or-not debate and leading to gross displays of racism. They got so much bad press for doing that, within 24 hours, they put it back up again.” (A spokesperson for the CMAs said in 2016 that they had only taken down a single five-second promotional clip because Beyoncé had approved only one video to be posted.)
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