It’s pretty clear to anyone who listened, watched, or lived Beyoncé’s new album Lemonade last week that the singer doesn’t need anyone’s help defending her name or her work. But since sisterly solidarity is one of the record’s many many messages, then we can pause and admire this little show of support from country music stars The Dixie Chicks. After Beyoncé’s country track “Daddy Lessons” drew criticism for not being Nashville enough, The Dixie Chicks proved the doubters wrong with their own rousing version of the incendiary number.

Last week, Alison Bonaguro, a critic for Country Music Television, offered up a scathing opinion of Beyoncé foray into the country genre. “Sure, Beyoncé’s new album Lemonade has a song with some yee-haws, a little harmonica and mentions of classic vinyl, rifles and whiskey,” Bonaguro wrote. “But all of the sudden, everyone’s acting like she’s moved to Nashville and announced that she’s country now. Just because of this song ‘Daddy Lessons.’”

While Bonaguro’s critique got the most attention, she far from alone. “‘Daddy Lessons’ is not country,” a critic for Saving Country Music wrote. “And if you’re a country fan who regularly doesn’t listen to anything but country, there’s nothing to see here.”

Though CMT’s own Twitter followers chimed in to argue that Beyoncé’s track was country, the site doubled down with their doubts in yet another post last week. Though taking a more positive angle than Bonaguro, CMT’s Claire Heinichen wrote, “If any country influences can be detected within the lyrics, instrumentation and production, then God bless [Beyoncé] for following her creative muse. That’s what a true artist does. And if her creative muse ever brings her even closer to a full country project, then we’ll probably be hit with a real revelation. Given her artistry and success so far, there’s no genre Beyoncé can’t conquer.” The message there is “close, Beyoncé, but no cigar.”

“It doesn’t sound like a country song to me, she didn’t cut it at a studio in Tennessee, and it certainly wasn’t written by a group of Nashville songwriters,” Bonaguro concluded joining the chorus of those who have ignorantly slammed Beyoncé for her many collaborators on Lemonade.

Four days after Bonaguro said the track wasn’t Nashville enough, Beyoncé cancelled the Nashville stop on her “Formation” tour. The May 5th concert will be rescheduled and an unofficial Formation Tour Twitter account cited stadium construction as the reason for Beyoncé’s date change. The Twitter account for the stadium responded saying, “Nissan Stadium was ready and able to host the May 5 Beyoncé show, and we look forward to the rescheduled event.”

Some Beyoncé defenders interpreted Bonaguro et. al. as gatekeepers eager to keep black artists out of the country genre.

Despite backlash from Bonaguro and Beyoncé own father, the track is getting played on plenty of country music stations.

Last Friday, The Dixie Chicks musically chimed in with support Beyoncé neither needed nor asked for but nonetheless makes the prefect statement. Never ones to kowtow to the rigid rules of the country music world, the musicians—who admittedly tend to mix plenty of pop in with their country—added the Beyoncé track to their set. Good luck to any country music critic trying to claim that slightly tweaked version isn’t a country song. And if it’s country when the Dixie Chicks do it, then it’s country when Beyoncé does it.