And she does so wide-eyed and full-heartedly, even painstakingly. "It's all to give you her point of view, her mind state, into what she was trying to accomplish and communicate with this momentous two-hour performance," says Madden.įor what it's worth: Lemonade still is not on Spotify, so for subscribers, this might be the best way to hear "Formation," "Hold Up" and "Freedom," among other interspersed Lemonade tracks.On Kate Bush’s only studio album of the decade, she sings about catching a snowflake out of the sky, warning a hunted yeti, and sleeping with a dissolving snowman. As Bey and her brigade of dancers - sometimes including her daughter, Blue Ivy - rehearse steps, voice-overs are overlaid from historical figures like Maya Angelou and Malcolm X. In Homecoming, larger-than-life performance shots are offset with intimate, black-and-white rehearsal clips which took place four months before the April 2018 set. "She's always had a love affair with what HBCU's have represented and the type of culture that they've nurtured in the black community," Madden says. Queen Bey's 2018 Coachella performance was a love letter to historically black colleges and universities and black culture writ large even though, as Bey says in the docu-special, she never got to go to one herself.
"She created an entire world to encompass the music that she's put out over the last two decades of her career. "Whereas other artists are chosen to headline a festival or perform at the Super Bowl, it's as if Beyoncé chose Coachella," Sidney Madden of NPR Music says. Covering 40 tracks - which comprises a vast bricolage of her own discography and others' - it features her cover of Maze's "Before I Let Go," her cover of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" and Blue's own take of the black national anthem. A live album showcasing more than 90 minutes of the more than two-hour performance is out now. Mere days after Coachella 2019 - where the specter of Beyoncé's grand performance last year loomed large - Bey premiered Homecoming: A Beyoncé Film on Netflix.īut, ever the generous queen, Beyoncé offered up a worthwhile supplement.
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