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Beyoncé Thrillingly Mashes Up ‘Cowboy Carter’ and ‘Renaissance’ in Nearly Three-Hour L.A. Tour Opener: Concert Review
Beyoncé's 2025 tour features a constant combining of her 'Cowboy Carter' and 'Renaissance' projects, to exciting genre-mixing effect.
Now, with her new road show, which opened Monday night at L.A.’s SoFi Stadium, the world gets to enjoy an extended what-if moment in which both projects really are conjoined as part of the same “era.” It’s a 2-hour-45-minute mashup of hardcore dance music and country/Americana leanings, in which neither primary genre has to say: “Don’t fence me in.” And it’s deliriously great, blurry, boundary-busting fun. The tour name alone guaranteed a decent emphasis on the Grammys’ latest album of the year winner, but would the whole thing be hoedown-themed, or would she give only lip service to “Cowboy Carter,” which isn’t exactly an easy fit with the rest of her catalogue? (If you’ve come to be nervous, as many have in modern times, about the folks who speed around with giant flags on their vehicles, Beyoncé provides a nice spin on that, in which everyone of every ideology or color can welcome that sight of someone rocking the stars and stripes on her ride for a few minutes.)
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