Beyoncé has been branded “calculated” by British singer Lily Allen who launched a scathing new assault on the Cowboy Carter star.

Allen, 38, who is ready to compete with the 42-year-old chart topper when she releases her personal nation album in some unspecified time in the future this yr, added to the continuing backlash for her determination to launch nation music after being recognized as a pop and R&B celebrity for many years.

The singer claimed that Beyoncé’s husband Jay-Z‘s speech on the Grammys criticizing organizers for by no means awarding her with the honors for Best Album, was additionally part of a “campaign” to spice up her present album.

The London native spoke out on her BBC Sounds podcast Miss Me? on Thursday with co-host Miquita Oliver.

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“I think it’s been quite calculated,” mentioned Allen in regards to the mom-of-three’s style change. “I feel like when Jay-Z got up at the Grammys, that was part of this campaign. It was before the album had come out or even been announced and she was wearing the blonde wig and a cowboy hat.”

“[Now Beyoncé] is the most played woman on country music,” she added earlier than criticizing the a number of Grammy-winner’s determination to cowl Dolly Parton‘s 1973 smash hit “Jolene”.

“It’s quite an interesting thing to do when you’re trying to tackle a new genre and you pick the biggest song in that genre,” Allen continued, cynically including: “I mean you do you, Beyoncé.”

Allen, who’s at present recording a brand new album in Nashville, added: “I’m here because I love country music and always have done, not saying Beyoncé doesn’t, but I tell stories in my music and that’s what country music is.”

However, Beyoncé’s fanbase, recognized as the “Beyhive”, weren’t having any of it and rushed to her protection on X, slamming Allen as “jealous” and “privileged”.

One wrote: “Who is Lily Allen? Girl stay in your lane and keep Beyonce’s name out ya mouth!” Another wrote: “So Lily Allen reckons she and bey are rivals because she’s putting a country album out too. Jealous girl sit down! There’s levels to this,” whereas a 3rd replied: “Lily Allen is a Brit and she’s doing country and has the nerve to bring her mouth to Texas-born Beyonce? Oh the privilege!”

But whereas Allen just isn’t a fan of Bey’s newest efforts, the identical couldn’t be mentioned for Beatles’ icon Sir Paul McCartney.

The 81-year-old star took to instagram to share his pleasure at Beyoncé’s cowl of his legendary observe “Blackbird”, the civil rights-inspired Beatles tune launched in 1968, on Cowboy Carter.

“I am so happy with Beyoncé’s version of my song ‘Blackbird’,” McCartney, 81, mentioned in an Instagram publish. “I believe she does an impressive job of it and it reinforces the civil rights message that impressed me to put in writing the tune within the first place.

“I think Beyoncé has done a fab version and would urge anyone who has not heard it yet to check it out. You are going to love it!”

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McCartney revealed that he spoke with Beyoncé on FaceTime, the place she thanked him for writing the tune: “I told her the pleasure was all mine and I thought she had done a killer version of the song.”

Beyoncé’s foray into nation music has been met with resistance and severe backlash from some nation music followers and nation music radio stations who ignored fan requests to play the songs on air.

Dukes of Hazzard actor John Schneider was additionally accused of racism when he in contrast the “Crazy in Love” singer’s ambitions to step into the brand new style to a canine marking its territory, throughout an interview with conservative community One America News.

Black artists becoming a member of the nation music scene has lengthy been a controversial concern regardless of rhythm & blues, created by Black musicians, having impressed the style.

On Monday, April 1, she hit again by calling out “all the record labels, every radio station, every awards show” telling the viewers on the iHeartRadio Music Awards that the music business must change into “more open to the joy and liberation that comes from enjoying art with no preconceived notions.”