Oklahoma Station Backtracks After Rejecting Beyoncé's New Song

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 certain to let a stan know that — twice.

Though KYKC finally revealed their intent to play the music, 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 trade.

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 industrial. That was a lil’ truth Justin teased within the request kind.

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Oklahoma Station Explains Refusal To Play Beyoncé's New Song Request Form — *Screenshot supplied by Beyoncé fan, Justin McGowan*

However, shortly after submitting, somebody on the Oklahoma station shut down the Beyoncé request from a SCORE Broadcasting e mail tackle.

“Hi — we do not play Beyoncé on KYKC as we are a country music station. Thank you.”

Not happy 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 trade screenshots under.

Oklahoma Station Explains Refusal To Play Beyoncé's New Song EMAILS — Screenshots supplied by Beyoncé fan, Justin McGowan

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.”

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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.”