Coco Gauff has a theory about the creative direction of one of the greatest recording artists of the modern era and a huge inspiration to the US Open champion, Beyonce after the megastar dropped her new country album ‘Cowboy Carter’.
Coco Gauff believes that Beyonce is setting about to reclaim genres with largely uncredited roots in African-American music.
She was among a number of top WTA stars to react to the release of the country album from the artist known for her contributions to hip-hop, R&B and pop music.
“A lot of the genres she’s doing were founded by Black people,” Gauff said. “So she’s trying to almost reclaim it and give other artists an opportunity to succeed in that space. My theory is that she’s going to do country, then rock.”
Coco Gauff was still looking forward to Beyonce taking ‘Cowboy Carter’ out on the road but admitted that she didn’t yet have the appropriate headgear.
“I already own cowboy boots from Fort Worth,” she said. “I didn’t buy a hat — so I guess I need to do that and make it Beyoncéfied!”
Coco Gauff is already proving to be an inspiration to others with her comments after winning the US Open particularly resonating with people.
She was asked about her famous defiant message to the haters while in Miami.
After her US Open win, Gauff said: “Thank you to the people who didn’t believe in me. Like a month ago, I won a 500 title and people said I would stop at that. Two weeks ago, I won a 1000 title and people were saying that was the biggest I was going to get. So three weeks later, I’m here with this trophy right now.
“I tried my best to carry this with grace and I’ve been doing my best. So honestly, to those who thought [they] were putting water on my fire, you’re really adding gas to it. And now I’m really burning so bright right now.”
Gauff revealed that she came up with those words on the spot and hadn’t prepared anything to say if she won her first Grand Slam.
“No, it kind of came up on the spot (smiling). No, I didn’t have anything planned to say afterwards. I’m glad that people can relate to what I say. I don’t know. It related to me, and I feel like it could relate to a lot of people,” Gauff said when asked if the speech was a planned one.
“You know, at the end of the day you choose what you’re going to — you can’t control what people throw at you with the comments and everything, but you can control what you do with, how you react to it.
“Yeah, I try to react to it in a way that will make me better.”
