Whoopi Goldberg Defends Beyoncé’s 2025 Grammy Award Wins Following Fox News Pundit’s Criticism
Beyoncé’s long-awaited album of the year victory at the 2025 Grammy Awards for Cowboy Carter has garnered plenty of praise across the music industry, but some weren’t as happy to see Queen Bey rack up the award wins, and The View‘s Whoopi Goldberg isn’t letting it slide.
The actress had some words to share after Raymond Arroyo joined Laura Ingraham’s The Ingraham Angle on Fox News on Monday (Feb. 3), following Bey’s history-making night the evening before, and he slammed the Recording Academy for Beyoncé’s country dominance while she had more wins than artists such as Dolly Parton.
“The country artists are not really happy about this,” Arroyo said. “I’m gonna put this in some context Laura: Dolly Parton has 10 Grammys. Frank Sinatra had 11 Grammys. Beyoncé has 35. How is that possibly commensurate with that talent? I mean come on.”
He continued to tell the host: “What people don’t know about the Grammys is everybody votes in every genre. You can vote in up to 20 genres. So basically Lady Gaga’s cat sitter votes for, you know, best reggae and best country album. So that’s why you get this ridiculous outcome that has nothing to do with the country audience or the country musicians.”
Oscar winner Goldberg came to Bey’s defense the next day, scolding the pundit on the Tuesday (Feb. 4) episode of The View.
“Sir, are you aware that you have to be in the music industry to be a Grammy voter? So, the cat sitter can’t just vote,” she fired back. “Are you aware that when the Grammys began in 1959, there were only 28 categories — now there are 94?”
Goldberg added: “The year that Frank Sinatra got six nominations despite having two No. 1 albums, he only won one Grammy that night for his album cover — not even for his singing, for the album cover. Listen, man. You can’t do that. She earned it.” (Sinatra received four nominations in total at the Grammys Whoopi’s referencing. He took home a solo win for best recording package.)
Beyoncé collected another three wins at the 2025 Grammy Awards, including her first album of the year victory for Cowboy Carter to bring her grand total to 35 Grammys. She also took home victories for best country album and best country/group performance for “II Most Wanted” with Miley Cyrus.
Watch Whoopi Goldberg’s slam the conservative pundit on The View below.
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Billboard
