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USA Today
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Beyoncé fans turn MetLife parking lot into a 'Cowboy Carter' tailgate on night two
Beyoncé fans turn MetLife parking lot into a 'Cowboy Carter' tailgate on night two Beyoncé Knowles-Carter brought her "Cowboy Carter" tour to New York for night two, and some fans celebrated even before the concert began — tailgating in the parking lot and getting hyped for the show. The Grammy-winning singer performed her second show on her Cowboy Carter and the Rodeo Chitlin' Circuit Tour at MetLife Stadium on May 24. Before the show, business owner and Beyhive member Kureé Sheard hosted her first-ever Beyoncé concert tailgate. Fresh off going viral for her Cowboy Carter-inspired sashes, the preshow party was a celebration for fans who purchased her now-iconic accessories. "It's really twofold. We wanted to do this because we wanted to just give back to our community who have supported us throughout this entire process of going mega-viral with these sashes. We wanted to just get boots on the ground — literally," said Sheard. "And then also, we just wanted it to be like a party. I always see tailgates for other artists." Fans showed up in full cowboy core attire ahead of Saturday's show. The tailgate series will continue throughout Beyoncé's stop in New Jersey from 4 p.m. ET until she kicks off the show at 7 p.m. Sheard says the tailgate includes everything from games, giveaways and Beyoncé trivia to music, food, fashion, fun and fan confessionals. At the core there's "lots of fun, games and community components that we're really excited about," she added. Beyoncé is set to perform on the same stage for a total of five nights in the New York area. The remaining shows will take place May 25, 28 and 29. Of course, Beyoncé first debuted her "Cowboy Carter" tour at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on April 28 with 39 songs on the set list. She performed a total of five shows there, putting on a revolutionary show filled with family, fashion, different music genres, and most notably country music and cultural commentary. The nine-city tour will span the U.S. and Europe with the grand finale taking place in Las Vegas on July 26. Beyoncé has already made history with her scheduled tour dates, including by playing the most dates at SoFi Stadium of any artist. Follow Caché McClay, the USA TODAY Network's Beyoncé Knowles-Carter reporter, on Instagram, TikTok and X as @cachemcclay.
USA Today
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Beyoncé's tour rides wave of viral moments, memes: Catch up on the best ones so far
AI-assisted summary Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter and the Rodeo Chitlin' Circuit Tour is underway, featuring memorable moments and memes. Blue Ivy Carter, Beyoncé's daughter, has stolen the show with her dance performances. Rumi Carter, Beyoncé's other daughter, has also made appearances, adding heartwarming moments to the show. A robot arm used in the show has become a source of amusement for fans. Ballroom dancer Honey Balenciaga's solo performance has been a highlight of the tour. Beyoncé Knowles-Carter is on the third leg of her Cowboy Carter and the Rodeo Chitlin' Circuit Tour, and the groundbreaking show has brought out massive crowds, unforgettable moments and a wave of viral memes. The Grammy-winning singer will kick off her first of five concerts at New Jersey's MetLife Stadium on May 22. The remaining shows there will take place on May 24, 25, 28 and 29 on the same stage. Beyoncé launched her "Cowboy Carter" tour at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on April 28 with 39 songs on the set list. She played five shows there before heading to a three-night stint at Soldier Field in Chicago, where she braved severe weather conditions and chilly temperatures. Her shows have proved to be a spectacle filled with family, fashion, different music genres, and most notably country music and cultural commentary. Here are some unforgettable moments and memes from the tour so far. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Blue Ivy Carter is the moment, and fans can't stop talking about it Beyoncé and Jay Z's 13-year old daughter Blue Ivy Carter has blown fans away with her fierce performances and stellar moves throughout the show. Each night she has floored the audience and fans online, taking the stage as a lead dancer. The show-stopping highlights from the young superstar are endless. Even when Blue Ivy isn't dancing she has had the internet buzzing. Whether its approving the title "manager Blue" in an adorable clip or thinking on her toes after getting her earring stuck in Beyoncé's hair onstage, Blue has shown the world she is the moment and she is a star — not in the making but right now. 7-year-old Rumi Carter's infectious energy lights up the stage Beyoncé's daughter 7-year-old daughter Rumi Carter has been a highlight of the show. She appears alongside her mom and sister Blue as Beyoncé performs her song "Protector." The song features sentimental lyrics like, "Even though I know someday you're gonna shine on your own / I will be your projector." Blue, Rumi and Beyoncé end the song standing together as they share smiles with one another. Following the performance, a montage of Beyoncé and her children appears on the screen, leaving fans in tears each night. Fans have begun looking forward to seeing Rumi light up the stage with her radiant smile and infectious energy. The pour heard around the world: Beyoncé's funny exchanges with her robots Beyoncé's concerts have been filled with high-tech production. Fans have been watching every detail, especially after a robot arm missed Beyoncé's cup while pouring her a glass of SirDavis whiskey during her last Los Angeles show. The moment instantly sparked playful reactions across the internet. Since then, fans have been jokingly watching each night to ensure the robot hits its mark. Even Beyoncé made light of the moment at concerts after the spill. In Chicago, Beyoncé smized at the robot arm and watched carefully as it poured her whiskey. She couldn't help but laugh as the robot performed its job properly, and she even appeared to give it a little "thank you." Blue Ivy gets 'Diva' in the set again; Beyoncé finds one in the crowd In her movie "Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé," Blue Ivy — who fans joke is Beyoncé's manager — convinced her mom to keep her 2008 hit "Diva" on the final set list. During the Renaissance World Tour, and now again on the "Cowboy Carter" tour, Beyoncé has been playfully scanning the crowd during the song, declaring, 'She ain't no diva!' when pointing to a fan. This time around, she makes sure to also spotlight someone who fits the title — proudly singing, 'She's such a diva!" Ballroom dancer Honey Balenciaga bodies her solo number Known for her standout performances on Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour, ballroom dancer Honey Balenciaga recently sent the Beyhive buzzing again after a candid post about how she planned to approach the "Cowboy Carter" era. 'I'm trying to figure out what energy to exude on stage. I was so wild and dangerous, I want to show growth in this new tour. I keep tryna recreate that feeling but this is Cowboy Carter,' she wrote in a post. 'I need my ballroom family to recharge my creative juices. Im trying to put on the best show for yall. I'll be ready for Chicago!' Well, Honey was indeed ready for Chi-town as she set the stage ablaze for her solo ballroom number, which has been a highlight of each show. Where runway meets rodeo: Beyoncé's fashion takes center stage It's not a Beyoncé concert without high fashion and show-stopping looks, and this tour is no different. Each night, Beyoncé continues to blend high fashion and cowboy couture, keeping fans on the edge of their seats as they anticipate a new look. There's been lots of Western-glam with sparkly chaps, cowboy hats, boots and piles of fringe. The megastar also has used her wardrobe to send powerful messages. The nine-city tour will span the U.S. and Europe with the grand finale taking place in Las Vegas on July 26. Beyoncé has already made history with her scheduled tour dates, including by playing the most dates at SoFi Stadium of any artist. Follow Caché McClay, the USA TODAY Network's Beyoncé Knowles-Carter reporter, on Instagram, TikTok and X as @cachemcclay.
USA Today
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Beyoncé's tour rides wave of viral moments, memes: Catch up on the best ones so far
Beyoncé's tour rides wave of viral moments, memes: Catch up on the best ones so far Beyoncé Knowles-Carter is on the third leg of her Cowboy Carter and the Rodeo Chitlin' Circuit Tour, and the groundbreaking show has brought out massive crowds, unforgettable moments and a wave of viral memes. The Grammy-winning singer will kick off her first of five concerts at New Jersey's MetLife Stadium on May 22. The remaining shows there will take place on May 24, 25, 28 and 29 on the same stage. Beyoncé launched her "Cowboy Carter" tour at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on April 28 with 39 songs on the set list. She played five shows there before heading to a three-night stint at Soldier Field in Chicago, where she braved severe weather conditions and chilly temperatures. Her shows have proved to be a spectacle filled with family, fashion, different music genres, and most notably country music and cultural commentary. Here are some unforgettable moments and memes from the tour so far. Blue Ivy Carter is the moment, and fans can't stop talking about it Beyoncé and Jay Z's 13-year old daughter Blue Ivy Carter has blown fans away with her fierce performances and stellar moves throughout the show. Each night she has floored the audience and fans online, taking the stage as a lead dancer. The show-stopping highlights from the young superstar are endless. Even when Blue Ivy isn't dancing she has had the internet buzzing. Whether its approving the title "manager Blue" in an adorable clip or thinking on her toes after getting her earring stuck in Beyoncé's hair onstage, Blue has shown the world she is the moment and she is a star — not in the making but right now. 7-year-old Rumi Carter's infectious energy lights up the stage Beyoncé's daughter 7-year-old daughter Rumi Carter has been a highlight of the show. She appears alongside her mom and sister Blue as Beyoncé performs her song "Protector." The song features sentimental lyrics like, "Even though I know someday you're gonna shine on your own / I will be your projector." Blue, Rumi and Beyoncé end the song standing together as they share smiles with one another. Following the performance, a montage of Beyoncé and her children appears on the screen, leaving fans in tears each night. Fans have begun looking forward to seeing Rumi light up the stage with her radiant smile and infectious energy. The pour heard around the world: Beyoncé's funny exchanges with her robots Beyoncé's concerts have been filled with high-tech production. Fans have been watching every detail, especially after a robot arm missed Beyoncé's cup while pouring her a glass of SirDavis whiskey during her last Los Angeles show. The moment instantly sparked playful reactions across the internet. Since then, fans have been jokingly watching each night to ensure the robot hits its mark. Even Beyoncé made light of the moment at concerts after the spill. In Chicago, Beyoncé smized at the robot arm and watched carefully as it poured her whiskey. She couldn't help but laugh as the robot performed its job properly, and she even appeared to give it a little "thank you." Blue Ivy gets 'Diva' in the set again; Beyoncé finds one in the crowd In her movie "Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé," Blue Ivy — who fans joke is Beyoncé's manager — convinced her mom to keep her 2008 hit "Diva" on the final set list. During the Renaissance World Tour, and now again on the "Cowboy Carter" tour, Beyoncé has been playfully scanning the crowd during the song, declaring, 'She ain't no diva!' when pointing to a fan. This time around, she makes sure to also spotlight someone who fits the title — proudly singing, 'She's such a diva!" Ballroom dancer Honey Balenciaga bodies her solo number Known for her standout performances on Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour, ballroom dancer Honey Balenciaga recently sent the Beyhive buzzing again after a candid post about how she planned to approach the "Cowboy Carter" era. 'I'm trying to figure out what energy to exude on stage. I was so wild and dangerous, I want to show growth in this new tour. I keep tryna recreate that feeling but this is Cowboy Carter,' she wrote in a post. 'I need my ballroom family to recharge my creative juices. Im trying to put on the best show for yall. I'll be ready for Chicago!' Well, Honey was indeed ready for Chi-town as she set the stage ablaze for her solo ballroom number, which has been a highlight of each show. Where runway meets rodeo: Beyoncé's fashion takes center stage It's not a Beyoncé concert without high fashion and show-stopping looks, and this tour is no different. Each night, Beyoncé continues to blend high fashion and cowboy couture, keeping fans on the edge of their seats as they anticipate a new look. There's been lots of Western-glam with sparkly chaps, cowboy hats, boots and piles of fringe. The megastar also has used her wardrobe to send powerful messages. The nine-city tour will span the U.S. and Europe with the grand finale taking place in Las Vegas on July 26. Beyoncé has already made history with her scheduled tour dates, including by playing the most dates at SoFi Stadium of any artist. Follow Caché McClay, the USA TODAY Network's Beyoncé Knowles-Carter reporter, on Instagram, TikTok and X as @cachemcclay.
USA Today
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Beyoncé in NYC: Get your last-minute Beyoncé New York tickets
Beyoncé in NYC: Get your last-minute Beyoncé New York tickets Get hype, New York! Beyoncé is headed your way for a five-night stop. With the superstar's Cowboy Carter and the Rodeo Chitlin' Circuit Tour beginning last month, Beyoncé began her tour in Los Angeles and Chicago to kick off the 32-stop tour. Now with those dates behind, Beyoncé has five concerts scheduled at the famed MetLife Stadium, home of the NFL's New York Giants and Jets. Set for Thursday, May 22, Saturday, May 24, Sunday, May 25, Wednesday, May 28 and Thursday, May 29, fans of Beyoncé have a whopping five opportunities to see her in concert. Here is everything you need to know about Beyoncé's 2025 New York concerts including how to buy tickets. Shop Beyoncé Cowboy Carter Tour tickets When is Beyoncé in New York? The Cowboy Carter Tour stops in the Big Apple for a full week. The superstar will have five shows at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. All five concerts are scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. on these dates: Shop all New York Beyoncé tickets How to buy Beyoncé New York tickets Beyoncé is always a hot ticket, but you can still grab yours. Tickets are available for all five New York shows on StubHub. The cheapest Beyoncé New York concert ticket starts at $142. Beyoncé Cowboy Carter U.S. Tour schedule Shop 2025 Cowboy Carter Tour tickets
Elle
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Elle
Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter Tour Is a Reminder That Black Art—and History—Can't Be Erased
When Beyoncé initially announced the Cowboy Carter and the Rodeo Chitlin' Circuit Tour on the very first day of Black History Month, I immediately began to wonder how she planned to meet this moment in history. So much had changed in the past year since she first released the album itself. Many of her fans, myself included, were still trying to process the truths that the 2024 presidential election affirmed about America, only to be met in the new year with an onslaught of executive orders, natural disasters, plane crashes, deportations, and tariffs. The news cycle was so bleak that Beyoncé's tour announcement, and the overdue Album of the Year Grammy win she nabbed a few days later, felt like the first bits of positivity all year. The Grammy wins for Cowboy Carter, especially, were so satisfying. Music's biggest award show was giving its highest honor, as well as the Best Country Album award, to a project that received so much backlash simply because Beyoncé dared to defy genres and infuse country music motifs into her sound. Critics and the country music community reacted as if a Black woman born and raised in Houston, Texas, had no claims to the culture or sound she grew up with. As if enslaved Africans didn't create the banjo and use washboards and bone castanets to try and emulate the music of their homelands with whatever was available. As if Ray Charles, Charley Pride, and Linda Martell never existed. It's almost too on-the-nose how much the rejection she received mirrors the rejection Black women are currently feeling in America. Both the country and its namesake genre have gone above and beyond to downplay, shut out, or outright erase the fundamental ways Black people contributed to their origin. We saw it in the way the Country Music Awards completely shut out the Cowboy Carter album. And we're seeing it now in the various attempts to gut all things dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and to censor our libraries and museums. So as I walked into So-Fi Stadium for Beyoncé's fifth and final L.A. tour date—a record-breaking run that spanned two weeks—I was excited to see how the greatest performer of our time would set the stage for these parallels to converge. Like the album itself, the Cowboy Carter Tour doesn't take long to let you know what it's trying to say. Opening with the LP's first two tracks, 'American Requiem' and 'Blackbiird,' it's like Queen Bee is holding her own sort of mass for our divided states. She comes straight out of the gate with messages like, 'Nothing really ends, for things to stay the same they have to change again,' 'Take these broken wings and learn to fly,' and 'You were only waiting for this moment to be free,' that address the elephant in the room and hold space for our collective emotions. This feeling is only heightened as she mixes in 'The Star-Spangled Banner' with her cover of 'Blackbird,' a Beatles song Paul McCartney wrote as a message of hope and encouragement to Black people during the Civil Rights Movement. As she sings alone on stage, a visual of the her sitting in front of a large tattered American flag with gaping holes appears on the massive panoramic LED screen behind her, then a bold message flashes into view as she holds the song's final note: 'Never ask permission for something that already belongs to you.' Before you can fully register what's happening, the beat to 'Freedom' drops, a song from her Lemonade album that also soundtracked Vice President Kamala Harris's presidential campaign videos and rallies. Its placement at the end of the medley of ballads shifts the entire energy in the stadium. Now here's Beyoncé marching down the catwalk of the stage, stomping out any and all notions of defeat with each step. Then, as the song ends, another image of Bey appears on the big screen; this time she's wearing nothing but the pageant-like sash she wears on the Cowboy Carter album cover, except this time the message reads: 'The Reclamation of America.' In this moment, it's crystal-clear we're not just experiencing a concert, we're in the midst of a revival. Before getting to the big dance numbers, stunts, props (a golden mechanical bull, flying car, and giant horseshoe awaited), and custom couture costume changes, Beyoncé was making a pointed effort to refuel our spirits and remind us of our power. Without missing a beat, she takes us right into a spirited performance of 'Ya Ya,' perhaps Cowboy Carter's most direct critique of the country at this moment in time. Visuals of the issues discussed in the song (pay inequality, wildfires, floods, freedom marches) flash across the screen to the beat, as well as poignant lyrics like, 'history can't be erased.' To close out this portion of the show, a series of video clips that feel like a short film you'd see projected in a museum begin to play on the screen as the stadium goes dark. Scenes from various facets of Black culture fill the screen: Black cowboys, country musicians, gospel choirs, jazz bands, dance parties, family gatherings; performance footage from greats like James Brown, Nina Simone, Chuck Berry, and Tina Turner; and clips of Beyoncé through the years. Then, the montage cuts to footage of talking heads on cable news (their faces blurred out) who criticized the singer's foray into country music. The video concludes with a visual of Beyoncé turning a stack of TVs off before reappearing on stage to perform 'America Has a Problem' and, the song whose music video launched #BoycottBeyoncé, 'Formation.' The mother of three is holding no punches at this point. She sees the parallels, and she's calling them out one by one. Political messages continue to be sprinkled throughout the entirety of the show, but it's really in the first 30 minutes (yes, all of this happened that quickly!) of the almost three-hour show that Beyoncé's state of the union message is clearest. Donning cowboy motifs and American flag-patterned fabrics throughout, she is the picture of a citizen loving and critiquing her home at the same time. She stands two-boots-on-the-ground down in the truth that both things are possible—and necessary—when you are from a country that was built by your ancestors, but not for them. If part of Renaissance's mission was to uplift us post-pandemic, I'd argue that this second act is here to embolden us as we embark on the difficult road ahead. The Cowboy Carter Tour reinforces the power we have to use our voice and our gifts to protect ourselves and our culture in ways that cannot be touched. I'm sure some critics will write off these moments in the show as symbolic activism, or note ways Beyoncé could be doing more (despite the millions of dollars in charity she donates annually). Some valid points might be made, and (not but) it cannot be denied that Black art is revolutionary. Much like Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl Halftime Show, it stands as a powerful reminder that no amount of effort can erase us from the fabric of American culture.
