After Beyoncé didn’t earn any CMA Awards nominations for her 2024 Cowboy Carter nation undertaking, followers have been divided over the snub: Some thought it was justified, whereas others noticed it for example of the persevering with unequal enjoying subject for Black and feminine nation artists.

However in a Monday (Sept. 10) episode of The View, actor and comic Whoopi Goldberg stated that Beyoncé’s exclusion from the awards present was so predictable that she would not perceive the uproar.

“Lots of people are shocked — I do not know why — that it did not obtain a single CMA Award nomination,” Goldberg stated on the present (quote by way of Individuals.) “Nicely, that is the query: Are you shocked?

“I do not assume she was snubbed,” she continues, “I feel they only did not … it wasn’t for them.”

Cowboy Carter was eligible in a number of classes on the CMA Awards, with the most certainly venues for a Beyoncé nomination coming within the Musical Occasion of the 12 months or Single of the 12 months classes.

The album’s lead single, “Texas Maintain ‘Em,” turned the No. 1 tune in nation music throughout its first week out, setting or equaling a variety of data within the course of.

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However Beyoncé additionally has a tumultuous historical past with the CMA relationship again to 2016, when she gave a polarizing efficiency on the awards present with the Chicks. She appeared to reference that occasion when she introduced Cowboy Carter, saying that the album was knowledgeable by a second when she did “not really feel welcomed” in nation music.

Goldberg has a historical past of shrugging off the idea of “snubbing” at awards reveals usually. In keeping with Individuals, she had the same perspective again in January, when Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig didn’t obtain Oscar nominations for his or her work within the movie Barbie.

“There aren’t any snubs. That is what you may have to remember: Not all people will get a prize, and it’s subjective,” Goldberg stated on The View on the time.

Earlier this week, Beyoncé’s father and former supervisor Mathew Knowles shared his ideas on his daughter’s lack of nominations, arguing that race was an element within the CMA’s determination to exclude Cowboy Carter.