AceShowbiz - Dolly Parton has shared her opinions on Beyonce Knowles' country album "Cowboy Carter" getting zero nominations at the 2024 CMA Awards. The "World on Fire" singer came to the show's defense after Beyonce's snub.

Recently, the 78-year-old country star had a sit-down with Variety to discuss various topics, including Queen Bey "getting shut out of the CMA nominations." In an interview published on Tuesday, September 17, she said, "Well, you never know."

Dolly explained, "There's so many wonderful country artists that, I guess probably the country music field, they probably thought, well, we can't really leave out some of the ones that spend their whole life doing that. But I didn't even realize that until somebody asked me that question."

The "Rockin' Years" hitmaker went on to elaborate, "So I don't think it was a matter of shutting out, like doing that on purpose. I think it was just more of what the country charts and the country artists were doing, that do that all the time, not just a specialty album."

During the chat, Dolly also gushed over Beyonce's "Cowboy Carter". She told the media outlet, "But it was a wonderful album. She can be very, very proud of, and I think everybody in country music welcomed her and thought that, that was good."

Referring to "Cowboy Carter" and Post Malone's "F-1 Trillion", Dolly marveled, "I've been fortunate enough to be on both those albums. Well, 'Jolene' was in Beyonce's, and I thought that was a great album. She's a country girl in Texas and Louisiana, so she grew up with that base. It wasn't like she just appeared out of nowhere."

The remarks came after the CMA released their nominations, where Beyonce is noticeably absent. In contrast, Morgan Wallen, who was previously caught on video using a racial slur and arrested for his dangerous drunken antics, leads this year's CMA Awards nominations with seven.

While Beyonce herself has not publicly spoken up on the matter, others shared mixed responses. The superstar's father Mathew Knowles blamed "white and black thing" for the snub. Meanwhile, Whoopi Goldberg insisted that Bey's zero nomination was not a snub.