“I said they never take the country out of me!” Beyoncé bent in the fogging night sky on Thursday (May 22) -Gentog a lyric from “Formation” to emphasize and also present the main idea of her scattered Cowboy Carter Tour, which went to New Jersey’s Metlife Stadium to the first of a five-night race. Most superstars on their eighth albums and a quarter of a century in their careers would create a stadium show around their most beloved hits, with a few new songs sprinkled in for a good goal; Of course, Beyoncé is not like most superstars.
Instead, the Cowboy Carter Tour animates every inch of last year’s full length, with the entire album’s land music vision, which disagrees with careful detail, from the instrumentation to the visual to the choreography; A handful of well -worn hits are grouped together on the set list, but they encounter closer to a reflection than a weight point. This is not a complaint: Beyoncé is not only a dazzling artist with a different-to-no-combination of the stage’s presence and vocal strength, but when she has evolved into an uncompromising album artist for the last decade, she has become more skilled at translating a Studio-aesthetic into a stage show with cohesion and purpose.
In the case of the Cowboy Carter Tour, the result is a lavish exploration of Beyoncé’s riff in the countryside as a core influence and exciting modern medium, complete with a line dancing stage, false westerns as visual spaces, costumes with abundant fringe and a giant scene in the form of a star. With Cowboy CarterBeyoncé bent modern country music around her personality, and its corresponding stage show achieves a similar effect and causes a stadium audience to Don Cowboy Hats to see their favorite pop star.
Still, the show makes it clear that it is the one she has always been: her musical interests can change and her catalog of hits can grow, but this side of Beyoncé is indispensable to her identity. Actually no one can take the country out of her – so she decided to make Cowboy Carter Her biggest, boldest live show to date.
With Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Tour, who starts his race in the NYC area on Thursday night, here are the seven best moments from Night One at Metlife Stadium:
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The news conference “America”
The first break of the set was the most provocative: Both recent and historical recordings are mixed together on the stadium’s Garganta screens, with a recurring theme for news broadcasters and pundits that question Beyoncé’s artistic credibility and country Bona Fides, who are at the forefront. Bey then appeared on the stage wearing a clothing that is literally covered with headlines – the living embodiment of an endless news cycle – and launched in a fiery intake of “America has a problem” behind a podium and with a ‘on air’ signs hovering over her head. During a show that was often a legitimate celebration of culture, this transition felt like a smart, pointed defense of the same party from those who question its existence.
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‘Cowboy carter’ the killer four-song running, presented fully
In the middle of the tour set list, Beyoncé beats four straight out Cowboy Carter Songs in the order they appear on the album Tracklist: The juicy funk of “Desert Eagle” is presented on the middle stage, then the fierce stomp-along of “Riiverdance” moves Golden Mechanical Bull. Before Cowboy Carter Diehards, this race of songs felt like a fever dream: Track 22 to 25 at full length offers some of Bey’s most successful sonic ideas, and they were raised with first -class location in stage show.
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“Thique’s” reputation of sexual energy
To make a song to sound titillation in a stadium setting is darn near impossible but “thique” RenaissanceReceived a showcase that balanced high energy and intimacy. A salon setup, complete with hairdryers, emerged in the middle of Metlife Stadium for a few minutes-enough time for Bey and four dancers to slip over, perform some sitting choreography and even quickly nod to the beauty-centered music video for Destiny’s Child’s first hit, “Bills, Bills, Bills.” On a marmalade set list stood the stage structure and the sexual dynamic of “Thique”.
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“Texas Hold ‘Em” exhibition window
Cowboy Carter‘S leading single remains Beyoncé’s latest Hot 100 Card toop, and instead of being grouped with the rest of the album presentation,’ Texas Hold ‘EM’ was wise to be treated as a crucial hymn kicking off a series of career ‘Crazy in Love,’ “Single Ladies (put a ring on it),” “Irreplacerable” and more with Tons of Gusto. When Beyoncé stood high on a bull horned large rich and rocked a Bncntry trucker hat, Beyoncé tore into the single while “calling all my cowboys and all my cowgirls” to help her take it to the floor; Eventually, the performance was transformed into an ensemble -dan number worth being a climatic Broadway sequence, and the vocals, like Beyoncé Flaunted to finish “Texas Hold them”, would have blown the roof of Metlife Stadium had an existed. All in all, it was a show-stop moment for a song that deserved one.
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The Flying Horseshoe
Look, we are a few weeks into the Cowboy Carter Tour, and most fans know that Beyoncé sits on a giant horseshoe late in the show, including under her version of “Jolene,” and flies around the stadium as Horseshoe is hung in the air. No surprises here but still … It’s a flying horseshoe! And it was as cool as one would hope it was! If you catch the Cowboy Carter Tour this summer, be sure to avoid a bathroom break when Bey saddles up that thing.
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Audience choir
At the end of the race of larger hits, Beyoncé tribute tribute to an important influence by covering “Before I Leave”, Maze Classic from 1981, which also received a focus in Bey’s return. After trade lines with a video of Frankie Beverly, who performed the track, Beyoncé showed his vocals on the song’s Melisma-Tastic Refrain and then invited the audience to do the same. Thousands within Metlife Stadium ran in action and belt out “Whoooooooooooa / I would never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never / never let you go before i Gooooooo“A cappella that Beyoncé collapsed from side to side from the stage approved. The best part? You could see blue eføy behind her on stage, quietly judge the audience’s performance and impressively nodding when it finished.
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The family affair
When we talk about it, Blue Ivy already commands the stage as a teenager – a fan favorite whose presence feels through each dance machine or subtle gesture. When she got her last solo ride during the show while she had something “in <3 new" equipment, the amount of thousands in the palm of her 13-year-old hand was. Meanwhile, 7-year-old Rumi's performance served under "Protector", where she embraced her mother and waved to the crowd with a broad laugh, some of the evening's biggest "Aww's" in the evening. In another artist's hands, such performances may feel forced, but Beyoncé weaves their respective presence in the show with ample care. Cowboy Carter Tour is her story and her daughters are an essential part of it.