Beyoncé starts his ‘Cowboy Carter’ tour with a full of hairs and a tribute to his roots and the family future | Culture
It was not a “no tickets”, but, in the end, nor a failure as pointed out. The expectations gave some fear: Beyoncé premiered with his new tour, Cowboy Carter – said that her album 13 months ago – that will take her through nine cities in 32 concerts, and did it with a medium gas stadium. The Sofi, in Los Angeles, California, is one of the largest events in the city (and in the United States; it can house between 70,000 and 100,000 spectators) and a few hours of starting were many tickets to sell. The plans of the place demonstrated it: there were hundreds, thousands of locations, for sale and resale. The ridiculous prices (from just 30 dollars) managed to convince the staff, which finally filled a good part of the south of the city. And Beyoncé corresponded to them as he knows: with a show at the height of the myth.
After time and fourth delay – what helped the stadium be filled little by little; Known is the delay in the events of the Angels – and without opening, only with a screen with the flag of their country by bottom, the horses began to sound. With the public dressed in their best galas of cowboyBeyoncé Carter (Knowles, single) made his great appearance. A dozen dancers dressed in red and played with hats of the same color came out to perform the first song, also the first of the album, AMERIICAN REQUIEM. After them came the great diva, dressed in Mugler (designers such as Moschino, Cavalli or Burberry were parading for their brilliant clothes), with unpolluted white and with high boots and fringes. Of course, he greeted the respectable, briefly: “I want to thank my fans for trusting me and for this album. Thank you for supporting me, for helping me so much, I love you.”
After his great entry, the claim came. Beyoncé sang the second theme of his album, Blackbiirda version of the Beatles that accompanied by a multitude of photographs from the mid -twentieth century of black women, and with the image of itself, evening, next to a black crow. It was one of the most symbolic moments of the night, where the Texan artist paid tribute to her roots. For her, that is her country and that of her compatriots: not in vain her image appeared on the screen, only with a cross band that said: “The claim of America.” In the many videos (background during the songs or that helped to move from one phase to another of the concert) he showed many people, extraordinary or currents, workers, singers, actors, dancers, women in the church, men lunching, normal people who have built their country. He did not need political softera or phrases made, only music and images that supported his speech. He made it clear in his third song: He sang the United States anthem. And then, Freedomfreedom.
The message is powerful; the staging, absolutely aesthetic; the voice of the artist, crystalline; His musicians and dance body, among which his daughter Blue Ivy constantly appears. But pauses to achieve that perfect aesthetic, with long videos, break the pace of the concert. Beyoncé displays his show For two hours and 45 minutes, but it makes up to seven long stops to change clothes – the stage is incorporating elements that come and go, a convertible, a golden horse, a mechanical bull, a pair of robots, but does not vary in essence -, which makes the concert lengthens and lose bellows. There are videos of her in a swamp, or turned into a giant woman, or of her beginnings, who can work to watch the concert on television, but not live.
In addition, no one expects the public shouting that of “WHHO RUN THE WORLD? Girls!“Or a great success of the never forgotten Destiny’s Child. In this show, the 43 -year -old artist is limited to her recent jobs: a good part of Cowboy Carteralso from Renaissance (published in 2022 and whose tour ended just a year and a half ago) and some of Homecoming (of 2019). Only Diva and about a minute of Crazy in Lovewhich unleashed the public, They sounded at the stadium.
As Beyoncé herself said at the end, with the emotion of thanks, this project has taken to build: “I feel overwhelmed, it is our first night and we have worked hard for you.” The work to create such a tour, which will take her from California to Nevada, through Houston or Chicago (and in Paris and London, the only appointments outside the United States), is a Herculean. Each stage is designed with a concrete aesthetic and different staging: from the second, before a car full of microphones and dressed in a suit that seems made of newspaper, until that of its renewed Jolenewhere it flies on stage on a horseshoe; Later repeats the feat on a red velvet car. There are dances of peg, crocodiles, dresses with LED that change color, a violinist playing a single at the tip of a stage or dancers doing VOGING. Beyoncé is not only a recital, but a show of fireworks (in fact, there are, and also flares of fire) that force to maintain attention at different points and people of that great scenario in the form of a star that, yes, it is completely understood if seen from the front and from above; Otherwise, some details are lost.
The family is involved in the singer’s professional life. And if in the beginning it was her husband, Jay Z, who had the most presence, now that place has her eldest daughter, Blue Ivy, even a teenager and who has become one more of her team. It appeared from almost the beginning between the dancers, always the closest to their mother and the most illuminated on the stage (also the most covered, she did not carry the short tops and the Microshorts of the others). Every time it was seen, or that it advanced on the catwalk, the public applauded it. There is much to see how the career and life of the little girl develops, but with just over 13 years, which he fulfilled in January, he already occupies a prominent place in the Carter universe.
Blue Ivy is not alone. During a choreography similar to a human mountain, while interpreting its theme ProtectiveBeyoncé showed the public to another member of his family: his daughter Rumi, twin from his son Sir (he did not go on stage). The three women of the family appeared together and embraced, to stand up and move slowly. The little girl, who will turn seven in June, was from her mother’s hand and greet the public, who chanted her with fervor, greatly excited, so much that she ended up hugging the artist, forced to stop her song. Then, there were more videos of the girl as little girl, with her brother, on family vacations, growing. Another star among the Carter.
Among other songs from his new album, Beyoncé sang Already, Spaghettii, Riiverdance, II Hands II Heaven, Sweet Honey Buckiin, Flamenco, Levii’s jeans either Daughter; Although he interpreted some that he sings with Dolly Parton or Miley Cyrus, he had no guests on stage. Mixed them with others from Renaissance as I’M That Girl, Cozy either Alien Superstar (The first three songs of the album, which sings in a row), HEATED either Cuff itas well as with Before i let goof Homecoming. All this while smoking the pianist cigarette, which when he left again in the piano, the instrument burn; Or a cigar was lit, in a video, with the torch of the statue of liberty.
For the end he left Texas Hold ‘Em and 16 Carriagesthe most popular themes of the album, and said goodbye to the last track of Cowboy Carter, Amenwrapped in a dress with the United States flag and among the applause of a fairly full stadium, but in which there are still five appointments and many tickets to sell. “Thank you, the angels, God bless you, I promise you that I will not forget tonight.” And he left, with the sound of his horses whinny.
