"[Beyoncé's] voice is a beautiful voice, and she clearly has good ears," musician Diamanda Galás says. "She could have studied the traditions of the great, great country singers [for Cowboy Carter]. But she didn't. She decided to do soul renditions of country songs. That don't make it, sister.

"And don't be playing me with all that 'Blacks were the first country [musicians].' I don't want to hear that ****. Shut up. It'd be like me saying that Turks were the first Byzantine singers. ******* shut up. If you want to do your little Black imperialism dance, go for it. But I'm not interested. And don't take it out on the music, *****.

"It's bingo music for clowns. It's a cartoon record. You wanna be a cartoon of a white person? Go ahead. Waste your ******* time and everybody else's, because you suck. It's dead inside. It's a political thing."

Source: https://www.spinmagazine.com/2026/08/diamanda-galas-interview-part-one/

Thoughts on these comments from the 'avant-garde jazz blues gothic rock artist'?

Edited August 25Aug 25 by limelight elixir

Wow, she really went hard on the racism there. Let's see which ATRLers expose themselves by agreeing.

ma'am who is this, this is Celebria

Who?

15 minutes ago, limelight elixir said:

'avant-garde jazz blues gothic rock artist'?

Girl what-

we just be threading anybody, all the xtine threads and now this person?

And why should we care what Diamanda Galas thinks

damn Marina really fell off that hard huh..

I love Diamanda so much but this can't be well off the mark.. I'm disappointed

I am genuinely surprised Spin even released this interview She sounds ignorant and racist as can be, especially for a so-called jazz / blues artist..

As a mber of the Hive, Bey doing that Pamela Anderson thing was so weird and calculated.

That said, this chick can go jump into quick sand for all I care.

30 minutes ago, limelight elixir said:

It's bingo music for clowns. It's a cartoon record

Me if they ask me about Smile or 143

diamante, skull, bingo, clowns, this is tew much

Which Drag Race season was this queen 1st out again?

The K be hitting hardddddddT.

Who?

Also, her critique is incoherent and racist.

Well if her opinion is anything to go by, she should have kept her mouth shut. The only thing that was clown like was the words coming out of her mouth & keep it shut for the music too.

Edited August 23Aug 23 by Keeandga

Oh wow congrats you put your name out there just for us to forget it forever

Dont really have an opinion on Cowboy Carter or anything she said but I stand by her side anyway hihi

Diamanda Galas is not only more talented than like ALL of your faves combined but was also a massive activist during the Aids crisis. Educate yourselves faqqots

who?

chile my aunt posted "who is duna lipa" five months ago on facebook lemme thread that too

At least Beyoncé's music is listenable even if she was cosplaying cowboy carter unlike this scary witch's music