Since Lemonade, Beyoncé has made an effort to not just show off her skills but to tell stories through music. Lemonade, which arguably should have won Album of the Year, told the story of how Beyoncé navigated her emotions through Jay Z’s cheating scandal. It encompassed several genres from rock to R&B as she found different ways to express herself through song.

At the time, the song “Daddy Lessons” was lauded by music experts and journalists as a clear nod to country. She pulls on her dad’s lessons to stay strong as she gets through a difficult time in her life. “With his gun, with his head held high / He told me not to cry / Oh, my daddy said shoot,” she sings. While her team submitted the song for the country genre at the Grammys, it wasn’t accepted, reminiscent of a similar instance with Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road.”

This spurned a conversation around race in the country genre and how the mostly white establishment only accepts Black artists in R&B, rap, hip-hop, and other similar genres. In fact, Beyoncé performed “Daddy Lessons” with the historic Chicks (formerly The Dixie Chicks) at the 2017 CMA Awards to much controversy with “traditional” country lovers painting Bey as an outsider.