huh? give me one song from Beyonce that sounds country music? i can't think of any.

Ask and ye shall receive.

It goes both ways. Back a couple of decades Reba McEntire did a soul-type album, "REBA" which included a cover of aretha franklins' "Respect". T Graham Brown has long had his feet in both Country & soul.
soul artistes doing country: Ray Charles, Joe Tex, Millie Jackson, Solomon Burke, Percy sledge & many more

Here's Pink doing Bobby McGhee. Surprisingly, she makes quite a decent fist of it.

If country fans feel that country represents for an artist a way to stay alive in the industry, they will reject it.