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Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Tour Thrills the NYC Area: Review & 7 Best Moments

Beyonce's Cowboy Carter tour kicked off a five-night run at MetLife Stadium. Here were the 7 best moments.

“I said, they NEVER take the country out me!” Beyoncé bellowed in the misty night sky on Thursday (May 22) — repeating a lyric from “Formation” for emphasis, and also presenting the main idea of her sprawling Cowboy Carter tour, which made its way to New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium for the first of a five-night run. The Cowboy Carter tour instead animates every inch of last year’s full-length, with the entirety of the album’s country-music vision unwrapped in painstaking detail, from the instrumentation to the visuals to the choreography; a handful of well-worn hits are grouped together in the setlist, but they come across closer to an afterthought than a point of emphasis. The first break in the set was the most provocative: both recent and historical footage is blended together on the stadium’s gargantuan screens, with a recurring theme of newscasters and pundits questioning Beyoncé’s artistic credibility and country bona fides coming to the forefront.

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