Earlier this 12 months, Beyoncé embraced her nation facet for her new album COWBOY CARTER, the follow-up to Renaissance and one of the best projects of 2024. As a victory lap, the pop icon stopped by the Christmas Day matchup between the Baltimore Ravens and the Houston Texans for a commanding halftime present efficiency, the place she carried out the Cowboy Carter songs dwell for the primary time.
Streamed dwell on Netflix, the occasion went down on the NRG Stadium within the singer’s hometown of Houston, Texas. The efficiency started with Beyoncé getting into the stadium on a white mustang much like the one featured on the duvet to COWOY CARTER as she carried out “16 CARRIAGES.” What adopted was a extremely choreographed set that includes a marching band, backing dancers, and visitor appearances from a number of of the collaborators featured on COWBOY CARTER, together with Shaboozey, Publish Malone, Tiera Kennedy, Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, and Reyna Roberts.
The setlist pulled completely from Cowboy Carter, together with Beyoncé’s covers of The Beatles’ “Blackbird” and Dolly Parton’s “Jolene,” together with “YA YA,” “MY HOUSE,” her Publish Malone collaboration “LEVII’S JEANS,” and “TEXAS HOLD ‘EM,” which served because the set’s nearer.
Instantly following the efficiency, Beyoncé teased a January 14th, 2025 announcement.
COWBOY CARTER simply racked up a whopping 11 Grammy nominations (formally making Beyoncé essentially the most nominated artist in Grammy historical past). It additionally served as her newest football-related live performance, as she headlined the 2013 Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present and made an look throughout Coldplay’s Tremendous Bowl Halftime present in 2016.
Trying forward, Kendrick Lamar is about to take cost of the halftime show for Super Bowl LIX, which can go down on Sunday, February ninth.
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— BEYHIVE (@beyhivecombr) December 25, 2024
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— BEYONCÉ (@Beyonce) December 25, 2024
Beyoncé NFL Christmas Day Halftime Setlist:
16 CARRIAGES
Blackbird (The Beatles cowl)
YA YA
MY HOUSE
SPAGHETTII / RIIVERDANCE / SWEET ★ HONEY ★ BUCKIIN’ (with Shaboozey)
LEVII’S JEANS (with Publish Malone)
Jolene (Dolly Parton Cowl) / TYRANT
TEXAS HOLD ‘EM
