Nation singer Gavin Adcock ignited a firestorm throughout a current live performance when he took intention at Beyoncé and her Grammy Award-winning album, “Cowboy Carter.”

In a video circulating on-line, Adcock, 26, with a bottle of what seems to be Jack Daniel’s in hand, despatched the viewers right into a frenzy when he known as out Beyoncé, noting that her album is at present forward of his on the Apple Music Nation charts.

“You may inform her we’re coming for her f-ckin’ a-s,” Adcock mentioned from the stage.

However the “4 Leaf Clover” singer did not cease there. He went on to criticize the music on Beyoncé’s album, implying that it had no place within the style.

“That sh-t ain’t nation music, and it ain’t by no means been nation music, and it ain’t by no means gonna be nation music,” he mentioned.

“We’re ’bout to play y’all some Southern f-cking rock. Y’all hit that sh-t, boys,” he continued earlier than his group started taking part in the following music.

Adcock’s statements garnered the eye of the BeyHive, and on June 30, the soccer player-turned-country musician uploaded a video to his TikTok, explaining his place.

He started the clip by telling his 1.2 million followers that he grew up listening to Beyoncé and remembering her halftime present being “fairly kick a-s.” Nevertheless, he defended his earlier feedback, including, “I actually do not consider that her album ought to be labeled as nation music.”

“It would not sound nation,” he mentioned, and “it would not really feel nation,” he continued, earlier than arguing it was unfair for artists who’ve “devoted their complete lives to this style and this life-style” to should compete with an album that stays on the high “simply because she’s Beyoncé.”

Beyoncé followers, nevertheless, disagreed with him and wasted no time letting him know.

“How can somebody from Houston, Texas, not make nation music, however somebody from Los Angeles can placed on a rustic accent and nobody says something? I am so confused,” one person wrote.

Another person echoed that sentiment, writing, “Beyoncé has been referring to herself as a rustic woman since Future’s Baby, and individuals are pondering she’s simply now saying she is?”

A 3rd fan defined that many nation followers get pleasure from Beyoncé’s tackle the style, including that “music evolves” and that nation sounds totally different at the moment than it did within the ’80s.

“Everybody likes to say it isn’t nation simply because ‘she’s Beyoncé.’ It’s nation music as a result of it reclaims what TRUE nation music began out as,” a fourth person opined. “Everyone knows why nobody desires to say it is nation music.”

Regardless of Adcock’s feedback, a few of nation music’s most influential stars, like Dolly Parton, have praised Beyoncé’s album. Actually, the 79-year-old legend had beforehand gushed about Beyoncé’s cowl of “JOLENE,” saying she was “honored” by the mom of three’s rendition.

“I used to be simply honored that she, in fact, did a very totally different tackle ‘Jolene’ than my model of it,” Parton mentioned. “Hers was extra like, ‘Properly, you are not getting him, you are not taking him, you are going to undergo me to get him.’ Mine was extra like, ‘Please do not take him!’ So I liked her interpretation.”

Parton additionally weighed in on the discourse surrounding Beyoncé being left off the Nation Music Award ballots in 2024.