![]() For good measure, there's also a duet with her husband (“Deja Vu”), a Destiny's Child reunion (“Say My Name,” “Soldier”), and as an added bonus at the end of the album, a backyard-barbecue-ready studio rendition of Maze featuring Frankie Beverly’s “Before I Let Go” that also interpolates Cameo’s “Candy.” In the American college tradition, she called the performance “Homecoming,” packing it over the course of nearly 40 songs with the sounds of brass-heavy New Orleans second-line bands (“Single Ladies ”) reggaetón (“Mi Gente”) bounce music (“Formation”) Washington, DC’s go-go (“Love On Top”) her native Houston’s chopped and screwed music (“I Been On”) dancehall reggae (“Baby Boy”) and the Dirty South hip-hop she grew up on (“Crazy In Love,” “Diva”). Her set-presented in full on HOMECOMING: THE LIVE ALBUM-which included highlights from the whole of her catalog dating back to her Destiny’s Child days, spoke directly to her moment as historymaker, synthesizing generations (and regions) of Black musicality through the filter of an HBCU-style marching band (members of DrumLine Live, performing here as Queen Bey’s “The Bzzzz”). ![]()
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