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Beyoncé review – ever-evolving star kicks off electrifying Cowboy Carter tour
The singer delivers a rousing, seven-act spectacle as she performs many of her country songs on stage for the first time while also harking back to her previous dance-leaning era
On opening night of her Cowboy Carter world tour at the four-year-old SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, she brings forth a sweeping, theatrical spectacle that reclaims country music, reframes American identity and reminds everyone who’s still driving pop’s evolution after all these years. Images of Linda Martell and other Black country pioneers flash behind her as Beyoncé – in a white Mugler leather set and matching cowboy hat – thanks “those who came before me” and praises fans for “giving me the creative liberty to challenge myself”. She closes with Amen – the bookend that concludes Cowboy Carter – draped in a US flag gown in front of a masked Statue of Liberty head with braided hair: a final image both symbolic and searing.
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