As Luke Combs's hit cover of Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" dominates the country charts, it’s bringing up some complicated emotions in fans & singers who know that Chapman, as a queer Black woman, would have an almost zero chance at that achievement herself: washingtonpost.com/arts-entertain…
A recent study from @data_jada and @jadiehm shows that fewer than 0.5 percent of songs played on country radio in 2022 were by women of color and LGBTQ+ artists, and were largely excluded from radio playlists for most of the two decades prior. pudding.cool/2023/05/countr…
@data_jada @jadiehm Extremely grateful for everyone who took the time to talk to me for this story, including @RissiPalmer, @_love_holly_, @literallytanner, @forked_queer, @tchapmanonline and Francesca Royster.
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