Parton’s response to the controversy has divided Internet users. While several people noted that they understood her statement, others pointed out that artist Post Malone, who, like Beyoncé, did not start out in country music, received numerous CMA nominations despite not having spent his entire life in the country field.
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“I understand exactly what Dolly meant and she tried to keep it as positive as possible. but the problem here is that ‘they probably only nominated country artists who have done it their entire career’ stops being valid when you see that they nominated Post Malone but not Beyoncé,” one person said. tweeted.
“This would make sense if Post Malone wasn’t nominated,” someone else agreedwhile a third user aggregate“correct because Posty does country all the time (no!!) and yet he had several nominations.”
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