{"id":185338,"date":"2025-06-15T03:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T03:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/185338\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T03:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T03:18:09","slug":"i-was-surprised-to-see-this-1-thing-at-beyonces-latest-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/185338\/","title":{"rendered":"I was surprised to see this 1 thing at Beyonc\u00e9’s latest concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether you\u2019re a fan or not, the name Beyonc\u00e9<\/a> is one you\u2019ve probably heard thrown around here and there. In fact, her hit single Crazy in Love feels like part of the fabric of British culture, and I can\u2019t recall a wedding or milestone birthday I\u2019ve attended where the DJ hasn\u2019t reached for this song to get the crowd up and dancing. But her catalogue of music goes far beyond the R&B hit, with her most recent album a nod to Black history and artists that have influenced country music, as well as the likes of Paul McCartney<\/a>, Dolly Parton<\/a> and Nancy Sinatra.<\/p>\n

While I\u2019m by no means a huge country music fan, I am a massive Beyonc\u00e9 fan, and although the Cowboy Carter album wasn\u2019t necessarily my cup of tea, I appreciated the significance of it. In my eyes, there\u2019s nothing Beyonc\u00e9 can\u2019t do, and her becoming the first Black woman to have a number one album on the US country charts was purely testament to that. So while I admired from afar, when she announced plans for another world tour for Cowboy Carter, just two years after her last one, I didn\u2019t jump to buy tickets.<\/p>\n

News that she would once again be heading to London\u2019s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium<\/a>, the same venue she played at back in 2023 during the Renaissance world tour, seemingly failed to make the same headlines.<\/p>\n

Instead, talk of sluggish ticket sales appeared to be the centre of attention, with The Standard reporting that none of her six performances at Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> Stadium had managed to sell out.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t totally surprised by this \u2014 country music isn\u2019t to everyone\u2019s taste, even for Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s legion of loyal fans. Accepting that I\u2019d had my fun at the Renaissance world tour, I decided to give Cowboy Carter a miss.<\/p>\n

That was until I saw a number of friends posting clips on Instagram<\/a> from her first show in London<\/a> last Sunday. Fast-forward to Tuesday evening, and I was making my way to Tottenham to attend the show.<\/p>\n

A staggering 40-song setlist made up mostly of Cowboy Carter, along with some of her most-loved hits, including Irreplaceable and Single Ladies, but there was one thing that surprised me about this show.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t her flying through the air in a pink Cadillac, her incredible outfits featuring floor-length fur coats and Western-style chaps, or the fact that the stadium actually did appear to be sold out that surprised me the most; it was families with their young children in attendance.<\/p>\n

Less like a concert, the show felt like a tribute and a lesson on the genre, and it was touching to see how in awe and excitement the children and families around me appeared as the musician told a story of African American musical history, of which she is no doubt a huge part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whether you\u2019re a fan or not, the name Beyonc\u00e9 is one you\u2019ve probably heard thrown around here and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[27162,75924,748,75923,31264,74783,393,4884,257,7834,269,46013,10652,21608,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-185338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-beyoncu00e9","9":"tag-beyoncu00e9-tour","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-concert-review","12":"tag-cowboy-carter","13":"tag-cowboy-carter-tour","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-london","17":"tag-london-news","18":"tag-music","19":"tag-ticket-sales","20":"tag-tottenham-hotspur-fc","21":"tag-tottenham-hotspur-stadium","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114685221648882442","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}