Beyoncé kicked off her Cowboy Carter Tour in characteristically fashionable, choreography-dense vogue at SoFi Stadium, in Inglewood, California, final night time. Wearing a white, fringed leather-based ensemble with a cowboy hat, she launched right into a set together with quite a few stay debuts for Cowboy Carter tracks, cameos from Blue Ivy and Rumi Carter, and a canopy of “Earlier than I Let Go” by the Maze and the late Frankie Beverly. Try the total setlist under.
Earlier than Beyoncé took the star-shaped stage with a troupe of red-robed dancers, an electronic screen lit up with an American flag beside a speaker tower emblazoned with the letters “KNTRY,” Cowboy Carter’s fictional radio station. Merchandise designs included a depiction of Beyoncé driving a mechanical horse above the slogan, “By no means ask permission for one thing that already belongs to you.”
After opening with “Ameriican Requiem” and “Blackbiird”—paying homage to the Black girls pioneers of rock, folks, and nation—she pivoted right into a twisted rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” modeled after Jimi Hendrix’s Woodstock traditional. Throughout “Freedom,” video confirmed Beyoncé in dreadlocks smoking a cigar, with a sash studying “the reclamation of America.” Blue Ivy stepped up for the “Formation” choreography and caught round to carry out together with her mom on quite a few songs, together with a efficiency of “America Has a Drawback” preceded by an interlude that seemingly sampled Loss of life Grips’ “You May Suppose He Loves You….” Rumi later joined for “Protector,” apparently going off-brief to wave excitedly throughout the dance routine, prompting Beyoncé to break character and giggle whereas giving her a hug.
Regardless of loads of Renaissance cuts and a handful of staples from her catalog—in addition to a playful riff on the viral “she ain’t no diva” TikTok—Cowboy Carter dominated the present, within the composition of each the setlist and the themes. A mechanical bull noticed backstage transpired to fit right into a wider narrative presenting Beyoncé as a Wild West outlaw overcoming alienation and outsiderdom to say her declare on the territory. The third act climaxed with video of a shootout through which she took up arms towards an older, white cowboy whose bullets pinged proper off her physique. Beyoncé sang remaining encore nearer “Amen” in entrance of a Statue of Liberty with braided hair.
Beyoncé launched Cowboy Carter, the follow-up to 2022’s Renaissance, final March because the second a part of a deliberate trilogy. The album went on to grow to be the pop icon’s eighth No. 1 and made her the primary Black lady ever to debut at No. 1 on the High Nation Albums chart. It additionally earned her three trophies at the 2025 Grammy Awards, the place she claimed her first victory for Album of the Year, in addition to for Best Country Album and Best Country Duo/Group Performance. Final December, Beyoncé carried out in her Houston hometown for the halftime show throughout one of many NFL’s first Christmas video games to stream stay on Netflix.
The Cowboy Carter Tour is Beyoncé’s seventh headline tour, following 2023’s huge Renaissance World Tour. The latter, which spanned 56 dates throughout the globe and featured visitor appearances from Kendrick Lamar and Megan Thee Stallion, was captured within the box office–topping documentary live performance movie Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé.
The Cowboy Carter Tour continues on Thursday, Could 1, with a second night time in Inglewood; the remainder of the itinerary will take her to New Jersey, Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C., earlier than European stops together with London and Paris.
Beyoncé:
Ameriican Requiem
Blackbird
The Star-spangled Banner
Freedom
Ya Ya / Why Don’t You Love Me
America Has a Drawback
Spaghettii
Formation
My Home
Diva
Alliigator Tears
Only for Enjoyable
Protector
Flamenco
Desert Eagle
Riiverdance
II Arms II Heaven
Candy ★ Honey ★ Buckiin’ / Pure/Honey / Summer time Renaissance
Jolene
Daddy Classes
Bodyguard
II Most Wished
Cuff It
Tyrant
Thique
Levii’s Denims
Daughter
I’m That Lady
Cozy
Alien Celebrity
Texas Maintain ‘Em
Loopy in Love
Heated
Earlier than I Let Go
16 Carriages
Amen
