Beyoncé‘s impact on country music has been named as the subject of an upcoming documentary called Call Me Country, which is currently in the filming stages.
The Tennessean is reporting that CNN FlashDocs is behind the production, which will be made available later this month.
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“Beyoncé’s highly anticipated album Cowboy Carter, released March 29, arrived during a revolution within country music as the latest arena of the culture wars in America,” read a statement from Warner Brothers Discovery, the parent company of the network, in a press release.
“Some in the industry are welcoming more diverse artists, while others stick to a much narrower view of a genre that predominately centers around straight, white men.”
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John and T.J. Osborne of Brothers Osborne, Rissi Palmer, Aaron Vance, and Denitia will all be interviewed for the documentary.
Earlier this month, Beyoncé made headlines when Azaelia Banks — a long-time critic of the singer — dragged British pop star Lily Allen for filth for what she called “random racism” against the ex-Destiny’s Child leader.
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Taking to her Instagram Stories on April 6, Banks reposted a story that featured Allen criticizing Cowboy Carter — something Banks, herself, has done — telling her to “sit this one out.”
“Shall we discuss that phone call to me – a few years ago – obviously off your face – crying and sobbing asking me to forgive you for randomly being racist?” she began, referring to the feud that the pair had eleven years ago that concluded with Banks telling Allen that her then-husband, Sam Cooper, “looks like a thumb,” per The Guardian.
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She continued: “And I quote, well, I just figured since I’m a white girl and you’re just some Black girl that I could shit on you…”
Banks then proceeded to give what she called a blow-by-blow description of what the conversation between the two entailed.
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Ironically, Azealia Banks herself has frequently criticized Beyoncé, claiming that the ex-Destiny’s Child singer is engaging in “white woman cosplay.”
In a scathing attack posted on her Instagram Story on March 19, the controversial rapper started out by comparing the “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer to a number of recognizable names in pop culture.
“Sis, I live for Whiteyonce Donatella Bianca Bardot DOWN, but I’m kind of ashamed at how [you] switch from Baobab trees and Black Parade to this literal pick me stuff,” she began.
Azealia then implied that Bey went above and beyond for the Dixie Chicks because they were white women, but that the same courtesy would never be extended to her.
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“Like u do lame stuff like bring out some blacklisted white women (Dixie Chicks) at the Country Music Awards. and they would never, ever do the same for you. Ur always sharing ur platform with white women, who are so jealous of you but have such a long history of sabotaging other black careers,” she wrote. “You’re reinforcing the false rhetoric that country music is a post-civil war art form.”
After questioning why Beyoncé would attempt to break into an art form that didn’t make her feel welcomed, Azealia Banks roasted “16 Carriages,” claiming that it “didn’t make any sense.”
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“Had you made a great country song … going number one should be the headline without the weird race part,” she concluded. “But like Kelsea Ballerini and Carrie Underwood have better songs than whatever nauseating little Bey on the prairie stuff is going on.”
