Luke Combs’s remake of Tracy Chapman’s 1988 hit "Fast Car" now dominates the country charts, renewing difficult conversations about diversity in Nashville.

Combs’s remake of Chapman’s 1988 hit now dominates the country charts, renewing difficult conversations about diversity in Nashville. Although many are thrilled to see “Fast Car” back in the spotlight and a new generation discovering Chapman’s work, it’s clouded by the fact that, as a Black queer woman, Chapman, 59, would have almost zero chance of that achievement herself in country music.

  • exohuman@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The point is she would not have had this success as a black LGBTQ country artist in the last few decades. She found success in the past as a rock artist (who we all knew was folk) but notably not on the country charts:

    Original Fast Car charts: US Billboard Hot 100 6 US Adult Contemporary (Billboard) 7 US Mainstream Rock (Billboard) 19 US Cash Box Top 100[29] 4