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Beyoncé really did once resemble a “church girl acting loose”, as per Church Girl, the Renaissance song. Queen of Halloween dresses up as a PEACOCK with 10-person entourage while her husband rolls up as an EGG. Beyoncé appears first in a video cut scene, laid out luxuriously across the giant screen semi-naked in dimensions big enough to be visible from space. And yet, once she emerges in the flesh – all sequins, shoulder pads and that megawatt smile, drinking in the crowd’s screams – she begins disarmingly with a slew of her rawest soul songs.

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Performed in a kind of virtual cathedral, horny southern rap and gospel cocktail Church Girl (sample lyric: “drop it like a thottie, drop it like a thottie”) might just be intended to provoke. However, she notably only performed her more classic hits (including a sweet duet of 'Brown Skin Girls' with daughter Blue Ivy) and steered clear of Renaissance tracks entirely – despite the stage featuring artwork from her latest album. At the peak pose of a show with multiple climaxes, she flies around on a blindingly bejewelled horse – known to fans as Reneigh, trailed earlier as a giant statue. In a final, unsubtle, retro-futuristic fanfare, Bey summons Bianca Jagger’s iconic Studio 54 moment by gliding through the air on a glitter-encrusted white horse while Summer Renaissance – which samples Donna Summer’s I Feel Love – blares.On a Wednesday afternoon on the streets of Cardiff, there were glitter, sparkles and cowboy hats as far as the eye could see. The chant that followed at a memorial in Los Angeles, one of several across the country, went: “O-O-O-Shae. Throughout, she deploys the sorts of extravagance and camp that ballroom values, Mothering outlandishly through her “Heated” commentating, inspiring Beyoncslay memes across social media, and making an interactive game out of which city shushes most thoroughly when she sings “look around, everybody on mute” in “Energy. Blink and you’ll miss dancers popping out of the stage like champagne corks, or Beyoncé’s powerhouse band getting wheeled into occasional view on a tall stepped riser (shades of Beychella), such as during Chic-style feelgood funk workout Cuff It.

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I would never have guessed that her opening section of slower, more classic songs while sitting on a piano, would have me in tears. Eight-time Emmy nominee Issa Rae rocked an elaborate updo and wore a silver and black feathered frock selected by stylist Jason Rembert. The news on its international release comes after Bey originally only announced its release in US cinemas. Beyoncé stuns in a black knit bodysuit sourced from Pieter Mulier’s ALAÏA Summer/Fall 2022 collection.British Soap Awards are CANCELLED: ITV make surprise announcement ceremony will not take place next year. Beyoncé puts her gold Melissa Simon-Hartman bodysuit to the test as she walks a ball in this Renaissancephoto. Blige’s “I’m Goin’ Down”—itself a cover of ’70s soul group Rose Royce—that grounds her as a brolic purveyor of blues.

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Pitchfork may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Unusually, Beyoncé has avoided making music videos for the album, meaning the Renaissance tour will be fans' first chance to see her visual interpretation of tracks like Break My Soul, Alien Superstar and Cuff It. To see her transcend, and become what she has become, especially as a Black woman, is exciting,” he enthuses. Before that, perhaps Madonna's 1990 Blond Ambition tour, when she performed “Vogue” in an earlier era of heightened homophobia and transphobia, flaunting her sexuality and power in a time when silence equaled death.

Black Is King joined the B’Day Anthology Video Album (2007), Beyoncé (2013), and Lemonade (2016), as the “Brown Skin Girl” singer’s fourth visual album. But this banging, progressive, LGBTQ+-embracing, Afrofuturist extravaganza is a masterclass in refined excess. Meanwhile those who missed out will be keen to watch the movie as soon as it’s released in theatres.

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When I am performing, I am nothing but free,' the Texan mother-of-three said in voice over, as we see shots of her getting ready for a performance, chowing down on a sandwich while her glam squad get her ready for the show. The retrofitting of the famous Italian painting The Birth of Venus, in which she emerged like a pearl on the half shell via Flora Purim singing “Plastic Off the Sofa. My friends and I are old-school Beyoncé and Destiny’s Child fans, and although I had immersed myself in Beyoncé playlists in the months leading up to the concert, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Umpteen references to queer club culture abound, the funniest of which stars Beyoncé as a news anchor on “KNTY News” (“cunty” meaning fierce; a track of the same name by ballroom artist Kevin Aviance is interpolated elsewhere). Three-quarters of the way through the concert, she performs her transcendent cover of Frankie Beverly and Maze’s “Before I Let Go,” a nod to her Homecoming album and another link from her own music to Black pop hits past.By rewiring dance music past in a sensory overload of truly stunning ambition and stamina, Beyoncé is writing some history of her own.