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People Seem To Think That Beyoncé Didn’t Deserve Her AOTY Grammy Win Because “Cowboy Carter” Features So Many Songwriting Credits — Here’s Why That Narrative Is So Damaging


A viral tweet comparing Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” with past AOTY winners like Taylor Swift’s “Midnights” and Harry Styles’s “Harry’s House” has caused a huge stir online.

Also nominated in the category were André 3000’s New Blue Sun, Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n' Sweet, Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard And Soft, Jacob Collier’s Djesse Vol. Writer Gibson Johns shared on X, “Part of what makes Beyoncé so unique is her willingness to bring unlikely people together in collaboration and to sample and reference existing material. Beyoncé’s albums are about erasure and restoring cultural memory, so she cites every single person who worked on a song as a matter of citational ethics,” another popular post read.

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