{"id":14745,"date":"2024-12-26T09:50:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T09:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=14745"},"modified":"2024-12-26T09:50:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T09:50:15","slug":"beyonce-nfl-half-time-show-review-country-ho-ho-ho-down-is-playful-and-infectious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=14745","title":{"rendered":"Beyonc\u00e9 NFL half-time show review \u2013 country ho-ho-ho-down is playful and infectious"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dcr-1fnjjtg\" data-gu-name=\"standfirst\">\n<div class=\" dcr-1mt0mpc\">\n<p>Show livestreamed on Netflix is first live performance of material from country-themed album Cowboy Carter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"dcr-1fnjjtg\" data-gu-name=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"dcr-14emo0l\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"dcr-bjqdol\">\n<div class=\" dcr-1v9sla6\">\n<div class=\"dcr-5oiine\">\n<div class=\"dcr-9dgpdq\" data-print-layout=\"hide\">\n<div class=\" dcr-1csot3r\">\n<div class=\"dcr-14baf59\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dcr-fu29fd\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"dcr-1upb05m\" data-gu-name=\"body\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1a4fred\">\n<div id=\"maincontent\" class=\"dcr-1bwys2b\">\n<div class=\"article-body-commercial-selector article-body-viewer-selector  dcr-1q6n3e0\">\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\"><span class=\"dcr-15rw6c2\">S<\/span>ome of\u00a0Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s most iconic moments have been on an American football field. Her barnstorming\u00a02013 Super Bowl performance, complete with a Destiny\u2019s Child reunion, was outdone by her guest appearance during Coldplay\u2019s\u00a02016 half-time show\u00a0as she paid homage to the Black Panthers and freaked out a sizeable section of the US establishment (\u201cIt is now \u2018cool\u2019 to embrace violence, mayhem and, frankly, even racial separatism in the cause of civil rights,\u201d the rightwing Heritage Foundation thinktank fumed at the time). Her 2018 Coachella performance, Homecoming, though not on a football field, featured college football\u2019s majorettes and marching bands as she celebrated historically Black colleges and universities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">On Wednesday \u2013 in a Christmas Day half-time show streamed on Netflix from her native Houston as the Texans played the Baltimore Ravens \u2013 she again used a football game as somewhere for her to interrogate and play around with American iconography.<\/p>\n<div id=\"sign-in-gate\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot-container \"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">Beyonc\u00e9 is part of the football business: since 2019 her husband Jay-Z\u2019s company Roc Nation has partnered with the NFL to book half-time entertainment and guide its social justice initiatives. (Though Jay-Z has\u00a0faced criticis<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2019\/aug\/16\/jay-z-takes-heat-for-business-deal-with-nfl-slammed-as-betraying-kaepernick\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">m<\/a>\u00a0in the role for aligning with an industry that shut out Colin Kaepernick after his taking-the-knee protests against racially motivated violence.) There\u2019s also the latent sense that Beyonc\u00e9 plays to win, an artist as devoted as an elite sportsperson to improving her craft, and who, like an elite sportsperson, is the subject of endless fan debates about who is the greatest of all time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"bb53c268-4c4e-4046-b568-fe432267078e\" class=\" dcr-173mewl\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\">\n<div id=\"img-2\" class=\"dcr-1t8m8f2\"><picture class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4cf677d48b9623a07d27033bc882bd5711afc962\/0_0_5203_3469\/master\/5203.jpg?width=620&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 660px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 660px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4cf677d48b9623a07d27033bc882bd5711afc962\/0_0_5203_3469\/master\/5203.jpg?width=620&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 660px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4cf677d48b9623a07d27033bc882bd5711afc962\/0_0_5203_3469\/master\/5203.jpg?width=605&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 480px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4cf677d48b9623a07d27033bc882bd5711afc962\/0_0_5203_3469\/master\/5203.jpg?width=605&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4cf677d48b9623a07d27033bc882bd5711afc962\/0_0_5203_3469\/master\/5203.jpg?width=445&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 320px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 320px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4cf677d48b9623a07d27033bc882bd5711afc962\/0_0_5203_3469\/master\/5203.jpg?width=445&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 320px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4cf677d48b9623a07d27033bc882bd5711afc962\/0_0_5203_3469\/master\/5203.jpg?width=445&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" alt=\"Beyonc\u00e9 during the half-time NFL show livestreamed on Netflix.\" width=\"445\" height=\"296.6951758600807\" \/><\/picture><a class=\"open-lightbox dcr-13fd1ms\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2024\/dec\/26\/beyonce-netflix-nfl-halftime-performance-review-ravens-vs-texans#img-2\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><button class=\"open-lightbox dcr-4tmywn\" type=\"button\" data-element-id=\"bb53c268-4c4e-4046-b568-fe432267078e\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><span class=\"dcr-194i6pr\">View image in fullscreen<\/span><\/button><\/a><\/div><figcaption class=\"dcr-1fujct4\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\"><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">Beyonc\u00e9 during the half-time NFL show livestreamed on Netflix.<\/span>\u00a0Photograph: David J Phillip\/AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">The Christmas Day performance is the first live outing for material from Cowboy Carter, Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s 2024 album that added a whole new discipline: country music. She begins with a recorded segment riding a white horse and wearing a cowboy hat so broad that it could have its own postcode, singing 16 Carriages as she passes people standing on horseback, acknowledging the tradition of African American horse riding clubs around the American south and indeed countrywide. Part of the Cowboy Carter project has been to firmly underline the contribution of Black Americans to country music and culture (not convincing everyone), and so it is here \u2013 next up is her cover of the Beatles\u2019 Blackbird, with a quartet of Black country backing singers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-slot-container ad-slot-container-2 offset-right ad-slot--offset-right ad-slot-container--offset-right\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">Any solemnity is swept away as the in-stadium performance begins with Ya Ya, a song whose total effusiveness can grate in its studio version but is transformed live.\u00a0Beyonc\u00e9\u00a0has occasionally been guilty of stiffness or boring regality in live performance, but she noticeably loosened up on the Renaissance world tour and continues to be thrillingly rangy here. She prowls down bleachers filled with brass players and dancers, her eyes bugging out, her hands mock-testifying, her moves gleeful and antic in the manner of Black artists from Little Richard to Janelle Mona\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">Half-time shows are always stuffed harder than the day\u2019s turkeys, but this quickly becomes a veritable turducken of hits: a megamix that pulls in My House then Riiverdance then Sweet Honey Buckiin\u2019 with special guest Shaboozey. It feels a little ungenerous then to not give him even a brief blast of the year\u2019s defining Black country anthem, A Bar Song (Tipsy).<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">A bit more space is given to Levii\u2019s Jeans, as Beyonc\u00e9 and Post Malone sing while mooching around a denim-upholstered pickup truck. The whiff of branding thus intensifies, and some might find the way they lean into this song\u2019s cornpone melodies to be close to mockery of the genre, but it is self-knowing and charming enough in its silliness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">A banner proclaims we\u2019re in the middle of a \u201cho-ho-ho down\u201d, and it continues with her cover of Jolene. Even Beyonc\u00e9 stans struggle to get behind this version, which egregiously changes the original\u2019s dynamic. Beyonc\u00e9 lets her imperiousness get the better of her; she simply won\u2019t be vulnerable and beg in the way Parton did, and instead merely issues threats. Live, the marching band drummers and brass sound terrific and give it some razzle dazzle, but there is so much to take in as lasso tricks are done in the background while Beyonc\u00e9 cruises in a lowrider. It hardly suits this bruised American standard.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"29aa9096-5bed-467e-9d18-a2561d327835\" class=\" dcr-5h0uf4\" data-spacefinder-role=\"showcase\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\">\n<div id=\"img-3\" class=\"dcr-1t8m8f2\"><picture class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e76484b6e29d536885253b74e8fe8530444dd094\/0_0_5588_3726\/master\/5588.jpg?width=880&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 1300px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 1300px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e76484b6e29d536885253b74e8fe8530444dd094\/0_0_5588_3726\/master\/5588.jpg?width=880&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 1300px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e76484b6e29d536885253b74e8fe8530444dd094\/0_0_5588_3726\/master\/5588.jpg?width=800&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 1140px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 1140px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e76484b6e29d536885253b74e8fe8530444dd094\/0_0_5588_3726\/master\/5588.jpg?width=800&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 1140px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e76484b6e29d536885253b74e8fe8530444dd094\/0_0_5588_3726\/master\/5588.jpg?width=640&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 980px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 980px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e76484b6e29d536885253b74e8fe8530444dd094\/0_0_5588_3726\/master\/5588.jpg?width=640&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 980px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e76484b6e29d536885253b74e8fe8530444dd094\/0_0_5588_3726\/master\/5588.jpg?width=620&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 660px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 660px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e76484b6e29d536885253b74e8fe8530444dd094\/0_0_5588_3726\/master\/5588.jpg?width=620&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 660px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e76484b6e29d536885253b74e8fe8530444dd094\/0_0_5588_3726\/master\/5588.jpg?width=605&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 480px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e76484b6e29d536885253b74e8fe8530444dd094\/0_0_5588_3726\/master\/5588.jpg?width=605&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e76484b6e29d536885253b74e8fe8530444dd094\/0_0_5588_3726\/master\/5588.jpg?width=445&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 320px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 320px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e76484b6e29d536885253b74e8fe8530444dd094\/0_0_5588_3726\/master\/5588.jpg?width=445&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 320px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e76484b6e29d536885253b74e8fe8530444dd094\/0_0_5588_3726\/master\/5588.jpg?width=445&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" alt=\"Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s half-time performance.\" width=\"445\" height=\"296.71975662133144\" \/><\/picture><a class=\"open-lightbox dcr-13fd1ms\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2024\/dec\/26\/beyonce-netflix-nfl-halftime-performance-review-ravens-vs-texans#img-3\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><button class=\"open-lightbox dcr-4tmywn\" type=\"button\" data-element-id=\"29aa9096-5bed-467e-9d18-a2561d327835\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><span class=\"dcr-194i6pr\">View image in fullscreen<\/span><\/button><\/a><\/div><figcaption class=\"dcr-1pvqcrw\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\"><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s half-time performance.<\/span>\u00a0Photograph: Eric Christian Smith\/AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">Everyone is at least in place, though, for a triumphant ending, with Texas Hold \u2019Em proving gorgeously contradictory: there\u2019s something down-home and comforting about its beat, like a gentle thwack on the hide of a trusty old horse. Only here it\u2019s being done here with dozens of musicians and dancers, including, by Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s side, her daughter Blue Ivy. The brilliant whiteness of everyone\u2019s garb is dazzling and straightforwardly theatrical, but perhaps there\u2019s also a wink at how her all-black outfits were received back in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">At the end she\u2019s held aloft, the word \u201cBang!\u201d unfurled beneath her as if from a cartoon pistol. That playfulness \u2013 poking fun at cowboys, even emasculating them \u2013 is what riles some country fans, who see Beyonc\u00e9 as a tourist. 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