#Beyonce Performance

[onikasbarbie]

[coffeeoysterlayaway]

Yes, I was at Beyoncé's second world tour show in Sweden. It's the only reason I made the trek to the Scandinavian country.

She closed her show with this magical horse. I was so close to the stage and yet so far. The beyhive doesn't play. They will hover over their queen if they can.

[thebeyoncesource]

THE RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR (2023)

[texasbama]

HEATED.

RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR. MAY 23rd 2023.

[yours-stevie]

When she puts on a show, everybody is watching 💥

[hive92]

[senysara]

Paris Night ✨

[thatgurlbey]

A little sweat ain’t never hurt nobody!

[hollywood-fashion]

Beyoncé in Balenciaga Couture performing in Kansas City, MO on October 1, 2023.

[thealogie]

proactively lamenting the amount of money im going to drop on the cowboy carter tour, which is already the best concert i'm ever going to go to

[thebeyoncesource]

HΘMΣCΘMING: A FILM BY BEYONCÉ (2019)

[texasbama]

Beyoncé performed Heated in Club Renaissance tonight! ❤️‍🔥

[terrainofheartfelt]

"DAUGHTER" is such a SONG and I have not gotten over how Beyonce just wove in a 17th century Italian aria?

so like the thing about "Caro mio ben," is that practically every novice vocalist learns to sing it. it's from these anthologies that a 2X Italian Songs and Arias and every voice student learns at least 2 or 3 of these because they are certified good pedagogical tools for learning vocal technique. which means every single person who studied voice (classical or musical theater or just took some voice lessons in high school) has heard this aria.

and it is a pretty little song. it's nice to sing. I learned it when i was a college freshman and learning how to use my instrument. and i am just obsessed that Beyonce Knowles Carter has absolutely taken the same kind of training (because she wouldn't still be wailing if she didn't) learned this little Italian aria from some long forgotten opera by some long forgotten composer, and decided that she liked it so much she would throw it in her country album, and in her country album's MURDER track.

like, she took two of the best women country Genre Songs: Goodbye Earl & Jolene, and merged them to create GOODBYE JOLENE, and she just peppered in this Italian. which may be a reference to "choir boys and altars" but "Caro mio ben" is entirely secular and not sacred at all, which makes it a curious choice, especially since she's used Schubert's Ave Maria in one of her songs before! ("Ave Maria" on I Am Sasha Fierce). actually the text of Caro mio ben roughly translates to

Believe me, my love, when we're apart from each other, my heart languishes. I am faithful to you but I'm always sighing, cease being cruel! it's too much pain!

so it's less about evoking holiness and more about the emotional depth behind the story this and the couple songs preceding it are telling. like!!! crimes of passion! yeehaw! italian!!! she did that!

Queen B is nuts and a classical music girlie and I love her for this. ARTISTE!!!!!

[hive92]