November 05, 2024

Beyonce drops “Beywatch”

With her recent overwhelming support of VP Kamala Harris, Beyonce dropped a visual! Yes you read that right, we finally got a “visual”.

Urging people to vote, Beyonce channeled the legendary Pamala Anderson from her Baywatch role, and to the song “Bodyguard”, Beyonce brings us “Beywatch”. Note that in the behind the scene photos, she pokes fun at the hive by walking the red carpet at BTV NO VISUAL AWARDS. (insert eye roll here lol)

February 01, 2023

Beyonce Announces The “Renaissance World Tour” + Dates

Beyonce has started Black History Month off the only way a queen can…. breaking the internet. With one swift instagram post, the hive is buzzing and getting into formation with money in hand to go on a world tour experience.

05.10 – STOCKHOLM, SE
05.14 – BRUSSELS, BE
05.17 – CARDIFF, UK
05.20 – EDINBURGH, UK
05.23 – SUNDERLAND, UK
05.26 – PARIS, FR
05.29 – LONDON, UK
05.30 – LONDON, UK
06.02 – LONDON, UK
06.06 – LYON, FR
06.08 – BARCELONA, SP
06.11 – MARSEILLE, FR
06.15 – COLOGNE, DE
06.17 – AMSTERDAM, NL
06.18 – AMSTERDAM, NL
06.21 – HAMBURG, DE
06.24 – FRANKFURT, DE
06.27 – WARSAW, PL
07.08 – TORONTO, CA
07.09 – TORONTO, CA
07.12 – PHILADELPHIA, PA
07.15 – NASHVILLE, TN
07.17 – LOUISVILLE, KY
07.20 – MINNEAPOLIS, MN

07.22 – CHICAGO, IL
07.26 – DETROIT, MI
07.29 – NEW YORK, NY
07.30 – NEW YORK, NY
08.01 – BOSTON, MA
08.03 – PITTSBURGH, PA
08.05 – WASHINGTON, DC
08.09 – CHARLOTTE, NC
08.11 – ATLANTA, GA
08.16 – TAMPA, FL
08.18 – MIAMI, FL
08.21 – ST. LOUIS, MI
08.24 – PHOENIX, AZ
08.26 – LAS VEGAS, NV
08.30 – SAN FRANCISCO, CA
09.02 – LOS ANGELES, CA
09.03 – LOS ANGELES, CA
09.11 – VANCOUVER, CA
09.13 – SEATTLE, WA
09.18 – KANSAS CITY, KS
09.21 – DALLAS, TX
09.23 – HOUSTON, TX
09.27 – NEW ORLEANS, LA

June 30, 2022

Beyoncé Gifts Chloe Bailey Flowers After Her BET Awards 2022 Performance: ‘Making Me Proud’

Beyoncé was a fan of her protégée Chloe Bailey’s 2022 BET Awards performance.

Following the award show on Sunday, during which Bailey performed a mash-up of her singles “Surprise” and “Treat Me,” the 23-year-old musician tweeted a photo of a congratulatory flower arrangement she received from Beyoncé.

“You killed it last night!” reads a note from the 40-year-old superstar placed alongside the white and green flowers. “Making me proud. All my love, B.”

https://twitter.com/ChloeBailey/status/1541582929176006656

Watch the performance below.

June 20, 2022

Beyonce readies lead single “Break My Soul”

Beyonce shocked the world last week as she began her promotional campaign for her long awaited album, “Renaissance”, better known to the BeyHive as “B7”.

What started off as fun trolling from the Queen herself, has already proven to be exactly what we wanted, another era, with a proper lead single and hopefully more to come. Last week we were surprised with preorder options in the form of black boxes on the official website. Since the release, 2/4 have sold out.

Today, Beyonce has updated her IG profile with the words “6. BREAK MY SOUL midnight ET“. She also placed the digital download link up for preorder on her site here. See you tonight!

June 17, 2022

B Ready: Beyoncé Is Poised For Her Next Evolution

A Sunday evening in Los Angeles; a drive into a discreet set of gates for a candid dinner with Beyoncé.

Two days before I find myself here, at Beyoncé’s home, we had convened in West Hollywood with photographer Rafael Pavarotti to make a fashion story. New music is coming – a thrilling abundance of it, but let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves. In what might be her most ambitious musical project to date, the culture-shifting, Grammy-dominating Queen Bee of all she surveys has trained her considerable artillery on America’s musical soundscape of the late 20th century. Do I need to add there is also a little mystery at play?

Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, a writer of excellent and lengthy texts, had taken to messaging me as we brainstormed the direction of her Vogue shoot together. A fashion fantasia spun from the tropes of club life during the last century’s final quarter. Mirror balls, light boxes, headdresses? Of course. A horse on the dance floor? Certainly. A motorcycle for her to adorn in Junya Watanabe leathers and Harris Reed & Roker boots? Why not. B wanted to play with fashion like never before, and as we swapped references (from the 1990s garage scene to ’80s excess), talked hair and beauty, and got to know her team, a vision of glittering retro-futurism began to take shape.

And she was so easy. Our one previous time working together had come at the end of 2020, when circumstances dictated that Zoom be our conduit on the shoot days: me in Berlin, B in the Hamptons. As the world opened up again, we ran into one another at a party thrown by a mutual friend, where naturally, after some appropriate small talk, I asked when we might make some more pictures together. Enigmatic as ever, she replied: “I think we could do something for July” and breezed off into the night.

She remained true to her word, though. On a bright morning in early April this year – a few days after her performance at the Oscars (and first nomination) – she arrived fresh from the school run and ready to shoot. White T-shirt, skinny jeans, a Louboutin heel, hair in a ponytail: this was B in relaxed collaborator mode. As is Raf’s way, he began the shoot day by gathering everyone into a circle for a shared moment of prayer. It was a magical mood and soon B was walking around feeling easy and free to be herself. Her husband and kids came to surprise her on set. It was a family day out – albeit a slightly surreal one.

And now, two days on, I find myself truly en famille, sitting at Beyoncé’s dinner table on a Sunday night. I’m a little stunned at how relaxed it all is. Sure, the house is impressively minimalist, with acres of white walls, gleaming glass and beautiful art. As a scrumptious dinner of ribs, cream corn, peas, and mashed potatoes is served, I’m not sure the mood could be any cosier.

I’m so struck by how tranquil our hostess is. At this point, her ironclad devotion to professionalism and privacy is legendary and yet here she is at home with her hair loose, not a stitch of make-up on, wearing a hoodie, just being herself. Her armour is so lowered, her laughter so infectious, her skin so glowy, she honestly looks like a teenager.

I can’t help thinking how all those walls we perceive Beyoncé putting up don’t exist to facilitate ego. Quite the contrary. They exist so she can let it all go. “My earth, my heart, my soil and my sanity” is how she refers to her innermost unit, and a great deal of protection goes into allowing her to experience her pocket of the world as calmly as possible. Perhaps it took her a while to get to this point? Either way, the energy shift is beautiful to behold. This is a precious time in her life. Now 40, she’s feeling so good as a mother, an artist and a woman.

She then asked me if I wanted to hear her new music. As someone who first saw her perform live with Destiny’s Child 23 years ago, a moment’s walk from my family home when the group played at the Notting Hill Carnival in 1999, I can feel the tingling excitement build as we make our way to her home recording studio. With minimal ceremony, she takes her laptop and plugs it in as we all sit on some sofas. Quietly, the superstar hits play on her upcoming album.

Instantly, a wall of sound hits me. Soaring vocals and fierce beats combine and in a split second I’m transported back to the clubs of my youth. I want to get up and start throwing moves. It’s music I love to my core. Music that makes you rise, that turns your mind to cultures and subcultures, to our people past and present, music that will unite so many on the dance floor, music that touches your soul. As ever with Beyoncé, it is all about the intent. I sit back, after the wave, absorbing it all.

The creation has been a long process, she explains, with the pandemic giving her far longer to spend thinking and rethinking every decision. Just the way she likes it.

April 25, 2016

Reviews: Lemonade

It looks like the Beyhive isn’t the only people living for Lemonade. Read some of our favorite reviews below.

Like much of her music over the last few years, the music on “Lemonade” is not made for pop radio. Besides the explicit language, it doesn’t fit into neat categories and boxes, ranging from R&B to a bit of reggae to rock and even a country twang. Paired with its visuals, it’s also elevated, becoming a work of art that has many layers to be dissected; there may well be dissertations planned on it at this moment.

It all speaks to Beyonce’s undisputed role the queen of pop — not of music, but of culture. It’s hard to imagine any other artist who could drop a project in the middle of our national mourning for Prince and still not only get attention for it, but captivate us so. – Yahoo! Music

Whether or not Lemonade is based on real-life events has been the subject of fevered discussion by forensic Beyoncéologists, who are poring over lyrical references, old gossip-blog items, and Instagram posts in order to suss out the album’s real-life news pegs. But figuring out whatever blind items Beyoncé is laying down (on her husband’s platform, no less) is hardly essential to enjoying this album. Its songs feel fresh yet instantly familiar, over-the-top but intimate, with Beyoncé’s clarion voice serving as the fulcrum for her explorations of sound and the self. – Time

“Lemonade” is the kind of album that a star like Beyoncé (as well as, lately, Rihanna) can release in the streaming era because she’s already guaranteed attention for her every utterance. The album is not beholden to radio formats or presold by a single; fans are likely to explore the whole album, streaming every track and hearing how far afield — a brass band, stomping blues-rock, ultraslow avant-R&B — Beyoncé is willing to go. As she did with her 2013 album, “Beyoncé,” she has also paired the music with full-length video that expands and deepens its impact.

On their own, the songs can be taken as one star’s personal, domestic dramas, waiting to be mined by the tabloids. But with the video, they testify to situations and emotions countless women endure. It’s not a divorce announcement; the singer, songwriter and director is credited as Beyoncé Knowles Carter. – New York Times

On Freedom, and indeed for much of Lemonade, Beyonce sounds genuinely imperious. She’s obviously not the only major pop star willing to experiment and push at the boundaries of her sound: that’s clearly what Rihanna and Kanye West were attempting to do on Anti and The Life of Pablo respectively. The difference is that those albums were at best a bold and intriguing mess: the sense that the artists behind them were having trouble marshalling their ideas was hard to escape. Lemonade, however, feels like a success, made by someone very much in control. “This is your final warning,” she scowls on Don’t Hurt Yourself, “if you try this shit again, you lose your wife.” You rather get the feeling Jay Z should heed those words: on Lemonade, Beyonce sounds very much like a woman not to be messed with. – The Guardian

With this album, Beyoncé is telling us that she’s made it this far in spite of the system in place; you know — the overtly sexist, subtly racist one. She was served lemons. And she made the most fire, refreshing, delectable, thirst-quenching lemonade ever known to man. Actually, scratch that — ever known to woman. – NPR

May 27, 2015

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