“I’m a country artist, but I’ve done pop songs.

So why isn’t it okay the other way around?”

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IfCowboy Carterain’t country, tellKelsea Ballerini: What is?

Kelsea Ballerini attends the 2024 CMA Awards at Music City Center on November 20, 2024;Beyoncé attends the Los Angeles premiere of Disney’s “Mufasa: The Lion King” at Dolby Theatre on December 09, 2024

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“Those don’t have to exist in the same plane.

I’m a country artist, but I’ve done pop songs.

So why isn’t it okay the other way around?

Post Malone and Beyoncé perform during the halftime show for the game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Houston Texans at NRG Stadium on December 25, 202

Post Malone and Beyoncé perform at the Christmas Day halftime show in Houston in 2024.Alex Slitz/Getty

That doesn’t make sense.”

But Ballerini sees no reason to reject Beyonce or Post Malone from the country community.

I don’t understand why that would be anything but great."

“I was fully inspired bySZA,” she said of the track.

Gosh, like, most played.

The singer said she has no clue who will win the Country Album of the Year category.

“I have only one vote,” she said.

I don’t know.

There’s no one in that category that it shouldn’t go to."

The Grammys air on Sunday, Feb. 2, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on CBS and Paramount+.