Beyoncé is giving Black girls within the music trade — like Mickey Guyton, Ok. Michelle, and Tyla — their flowers.
“With alternative comes risk. The chances are countless with you @Beyonce,” Guyton, 40, wrote by way of X on Friday, March 29, alongside images of a bouquet of white flowers and a observe from Bey, 42, herself.
“Thanks for opening doorways for me, queen. Hold shining,” the observe learn, signed with “love and respect” from Beyoncé. In 2020, Guyton turned the primary Black feminine artist to be nominated for Finest Nation Solo Efficiency on the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards for her track “Black Like Me.” That very same 12 months, she was the primary black feminine artist to carry out on the Academy of Nation Music Awards.
Guyton wrote by way of X: “God gave me an task and I adopted. Might the doorways proceed to remain extensive open.”
The presents didn’t cease there, as musician Ok. Michelle additionally shared images of her white flower bouquet by way of Instagram on Friday as properly, with an analogous observe of help from the “16 Carriages” singer. “I really like what you’ve been doing and I do know it’s not simple to enter a brand new house,” Beyoncé wrote to Michelle, 42. “Sending you positivity and respect. I hope to satisfy you sooner or later.”
Michelle, who can also be a forged member on Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, is at present engaged on her debut nation album, which is predicted to drop someday in 2024, referred to as the present from Beyoncé “one of many nicest issues EVER,” and congratulated the Grammy winner on the discharge of her newest album, Cowboy Carter.
“Thanks for giving me my flowers, they’re so stunning,” Michelle captioned her submit. “I’m so nervous about FINALLY getting to place out my first nation album, and this simply fueled the fireplace 🔥 I’m so motivated.”
Beyoncé additionally despatched a bouquet to Tyla, with a observe congratulating the “Water” singer on her “stunning new album,” with the encouragement to “preserve killing it.” Tyla, 22, shared a photograph of the cardboard and bouquet by way of Instagram Story on Saturday, March 30.
Beyoncé launched her eighth studio album, Cowboy Carter, on March 29, 2024. Although it’s her first nation album, it’s also the second installment of a three-part venture following the discharge of Renaissance in 2022. The album itself options nation artists Dolly Parton, Miley Cyrus, Willie Nelson, in addition to Willie Jones and Publish Malone.
Within the second track off Cowboy Carter, a canopy of “Blackbird” by The Beatles, Beyoncé spotlighted 4 different Black feminine nation musicians who joined her on the monitor: Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, Tiera Kennedy and Reyna Roberts.
“Beyoncé taught me find out how to be smooth however robust. A power of nature. I’ve watched her be solid like metallic within the hearth of this trade and she or he remained poised, and grateful,” Adell wrote by way of Instagram on Friday. “Thanks Queen Bey for busting these gates extensive open with this album. For letting your gentle spill over onto MY head. I’m humbled by the thought.”
Main as much as the discharge of Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé took to Instagram to thank followers for his or her help following the discharge of her two singles, “16 Carriages” and “Texas Maintain ‘Em,” which made her the primary Black girl with a No. 1 single on the Sizzling Nation Songs chart. She additionally famous that Cowboy Carter was “over 5 years within the making.”
“It was born out of an expertise that I had years in the past the place I didn’t really feel welcomed … and it was very clear that I wasn’t,” she wrote by way of Instagram on March 19. “However, due to that have, I did a deeper dive into the historical past of Nation music and studied our wealthy musical archive.”
Whereas she didn’t specify the expertise, followers consider it was a reference to her first nation single “Daddy Classes” not being thought-about eligible for any nation music Grammy Awards in 2016.