Whew! The Beyhive was buzzing angrily about Oklahoma station KYKC 100.1 FM refusing to play Beyoncé‘s new track. The country music station apparently didn’t categorize ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ as a rustic joint and made positive to let a stan know that — twice.
Though KYKC in the end revealed their intent to play the track, it took an entire lotta ENERGY to get ’em there. Keep scrolling to see what occurred. The Beyoncé stan who shared their emailed rejection and the station spoke to The Shade Room concerning the Feb. 13 alternate.
Beyoncé Stan Shares What Oklahoma Station Said In The Emails
As talked about, Justin McGowan reached out to KYKC on Tuesday to request the nation tune first teased in a Verizon business. That was a lil’ reality Justin teased within the request type.
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However, shortly after submitting, somebody on the Oklahoma station shut down the Beyoncé request from a SCORE Broadcasting electronic mail handle.
“Hi — we do not play Beyoncé on KYKC as we are a country music station. Thank you.”
Not glad with their miscategorization of Texas Hold ‘Em, Justin followed up, highlighting Black Americans’ contribution to the style.
“‘Texas Hold ‘Em is a new song and it is a country song. It is also labeled as country on Spotify and Apple Music. Please play this song and stop being discriminatory towards her. (By the way, Black people created country music.)”
However, the KYKC worker doubled down and gave an instance as to how their rejection isn’t discriminatory.
“We will check it out. If it’s appropriate to the format, we will play it. Meanwhile, we play tons of Beyoncé on our 99.3 station and lots more on our 105.5 station, so… “discriminatory” we aren’t. Thanks.”
See the e-mail alternate screenshots beneath.
KYKC Explains Their Initial Reaction To The Beyoncé Request
When The Shade Room contacted the Oklahoma station, they labeled their preliminary response to the Beyoncé request as a “generic reply.” However, of their unique reply, KCYC admitted they might’ve “been more detailed.”
“If someone emailed our country station and requested a Rolling Stones song, we would have probably replied the same. Beyoncé is known for NOT being a country artist, so we just replied to that effect.”
The assertion continued:
“But…we are actually excited that she has ‘crossed over’ to a new genre and we will watch it closely to see if bigger stations start playing it and to watch it on the chart. We do play the song on our Top 40 station, KXFC, but haven’t added it yet to our country station. We are big Beyoncé fans here and really hope it does well, as we like seeing new artists get into the format.”
Swipe beneath to see the assertion.
Shortly after giving The Shade Room their unique assertion, KYKC took to their X (previously Twitter) for the primary time since May 2020. Their tune appeared to have modified.
They shared a photograph of their playlist and ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ was scheduled to play at 2:28:35 PM native time.
“Lots of call coming in for Beyoncé’s ‘Texas Hold ‘Em.’ It’s coming up in minutes.”
Lots of name coming in for Beyoncé’s Texas Hold ‘Em. It’s arising in minutes pic.twitter.com/w9hZ24w4aw
— 100.1 KYKC (@1001KYKC) February 13, 2024
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The Shade Room Social Media Editor Brianne contributed to this unique report.