In a story of laying her cards “down, down, down,” 28-year-old Dee Philips has proclaimed that she has always loved country music, even though she only started taking an interest in the genre after Beyoncé dropped her two new singles.
“Way back when I was a little girl, I remember tapping my foot to the country music stylings of ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ and ‘16 Carriages,’” Dee said, despite these songs releasing less than a month ago when Dee was the same age that she is now. “I’ve always carried country music in my heart since then. Not many people know this, but I’m such a country girl at heart!”
Despite Dee’s recollection of her music taste, other people in her life seem to have differing accounts of it.
“Whenever I would play country music in the car when Dee was a kid, she would cover her ears and beg me to change the station,” Dee’s mother Kat Philips told reporters. “But just a week ago, she called me telling me to listen to Beyoncé’s new country songs, and I couldn’t believe it! I guess she finally came around. She did always like Beyoncé, though.”
Another person close to Dee allegedly saw her change in music taste happen right in front of her own eyes.
“As soon as Dee blasted Beyoncé’s new country singles on our TV, she went out and bought a cowboy hat, spurs, and cowboy boots,” Dee’s roommate, Tima Adesina, said. “Now she won’t stop DMing me flyers for square-dancing events at different bars around the city. I’m happy to go with her, but it’s just a little weird that she’s acting like she’s always been like this.”
When reporters told her about her roommate and mother’s sides of her story, Dee was incredulous.
“What? I’ve always loved square dancing,” Dee said, now with a notable Southern drawl. “Hell, I’ve been square dancing since I was just a little young’un!”
Upon further research, it was confirmed that the square-dancing Dee mentioned was actually part of the mandatory social dancing classes she was required to attend in middle school.
At press time, Dee had expressed her excitement about Beyoncé’s Act II album, as well as whatever genre Act III will consist of, which she maintains she has also always been a fan of, whatever it may be.
