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Beyoncé NFL half-time show review – country ho-ho-ho-down live-streamed on Netflix is playful and infectious
Show live-streamed on Netflix is first live performance of material from country-themed album Cowboy Carter
Her barnstorming 2013 Super Bowl performance, complete with a Destiny’s Child reunion, was outdone by her guest appearance during Coldplay’s own 2016 half-time show as she homaged the Black Panthers and freaked out a sizeable quotient of the US establishment (“It is now ‘cool’ to embrace violence, mayhem, and frankly even racial separatism in the cause of civil rights”, the right-wing Heritage Foundation thinktank fumed at the time). Half-time shows are always stuffed harder than the day’s turkeys, but this quickly become a veritable turducken of hits: a megamix that pulls in My House then Riiverdance then Sweet Honey Buckiin with special guest Shaboozey. Photograph: Eric Christian Smith/APEveryone is at least in place, though, for a triumphant ending, with Texas Hold ‘Em proving gorgeously contradictory: there’s something down-home and comforting about its beat, like a gentle thwack on the hide of a trusty old horse.
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