Beyonce may have wrapped her ‘Formation World Tour,’ but the slayage continued tonight at the TIDAL X 1015 concert.
Staged at the Barclays Center in New York City, the show saw Queen Bey serve as its centrepiece amidst performances from heavy-hitters such as Nicki Minaj, Alicia Keys, and Lauryn Hill.
Taking to the stage twice, the 35-year-old superstar first delivered a captivating, CGI assisted showing of ‘6 Inch’ and ‘Haunted’ before returning to perform ‘All Night.’
Kudos to Bey for always pushing herself and the envelope.
Given the nature of the event, we’d have preferred to see her hit the audience with more of the familiar (see: ‘Formation’), but it’s clear she does as she pleases. And there’s something inherently satisfying in that. Somewhat.
Nicki stole the show tbh, it was a pure hip hop set. The Melania diss, the twerk, the setlist that had the entire audience rapping along was hilarious and fantastic. I enjoyed it the most cuz of the pure fun enjoyment. Beyonce did excellent as well, much respect to her for not missing a single note even when her ear was bleeding. Her vocals were spot on as usual, outfit was beautiful, and the holograms were great. They were the best of the night for sure.
Beyoncé needs to switch it up!
stop, she’s a great performer and people love her
She needs more new “resent hit songs” before ill go to see her show. Im not going to see hits from 15 years ago.
@?AKAFakeAdeleStan 2.2 million people, $256 million —–> You! She doesn’t nor does she need your hating ass to see her live. 2.2 million people were fine seeing her perform those “15” year old hits. While her haters seeth themselves into a grave, she stays getting paid with a bigger and bigger audience every tour! ???
BEYONCÉ STOLE THAT PERFORMANCE FROM MADONNAS HUMAN NATURE
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My mom and I both said the samething! I had no idea Nicki was this entertaining! Gotta go see her in concert!
Beysus can sit there & hum & life will be given. Y’all will deal.
I saw a video on Twitter of Nicki getting on the floor and bowing down to Lauryn Hill it made me respect her even more. Nicki and Beyoncé both did their thing.
Shoutout to all of the artists Bey has jacked styles and sound from her entire solo career!
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Bey been on
Love her suit for all night.
Good for Bey to mix it up and not rely on high tempo choreography all the time.
That ponytail lethal weapon.
Shout outs to Nicki the crowd lapped her up.
I swear Beyoncé is best performer living SHE F****** SLAYED!
ALL NIGHT! My favourite song on lemonade
My favourite beyonce song
My favourite song
My future wedding song
I just so in love with it
And this performance was so understated that it was heavenly
She has the most stage presence ever
She really enjoyed herself during that and you could see it
She’s the only artist with no ” I have nothing to prove” excuses. I mean, after all those sales, earnings, acclaims, accolades, people worship you and highest grossing tours, you still give me 100% for a CHARITY CONCERT!!!?? I swear she’s the hardest working artist in history. I hope she wins AOTY.
I wish she would sing with the mic on. She seems obsessed with Mariah that she is copying her lip syncing technique.
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I laughed when someone said Kool-aid is an African American movement. Fun fact, over 90% of employees at Parkwood are white.
FRIHANNA SHOULD LIP-SYNC, SHE WOULD SOUND LESS LIKE A SHE-GOAT!!!!
U are a fool if u think that entire performance was LIP-SYNCED…
Bey’s performance on all night is better than most of frih-goat’s performance this entire year. TEA!!!
She was great! If she incorporates this kind of stuff into her next tour it will be a massive success!
Seems like the two creatures are starting to comment again. With the same drags over and over again.
Bey kilt it per usual.
The haters are still with the lip syncing b*******. Its better than the “modified” p**** patting choreography or singing one work per song.
It’s so boring to discredit another artist to make you feel better about the one you like or defend them. Someone has raised that they think Beyonce lip syncs and their comment has nothing to do with Rihanna or any other artist. If you don’t think Beyonce syncs then state why or link videos that prove otherwise than this lazy point
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I love Beyonce, and she looked gorgeous as usual, but her performance seemed off tonight. She sounded sort of tired, and looked like she just wasnt feelin it.
I agree, she wasn’t feeling it, at times it seemed like she couldn’t sing anymore.
I think its obvious she is tired from touring and she was kind of hurt because of her ear bleeding.
Janet you lie stope hating
Bey shut it down as always.
Nicki needs stage presence from lil kim its horrible and so is that ass to thigh ratio.
Beyonce was Amazing!
Omg God she is good this melt y my heart tthank you god for blessing us with out talented queen Bey god continue to bless protect her for life long success career long happy life
Bey did good with all the visuals… sometimes all of that isn’t needed but Nicki came out there and totally slayed the old school way! No background dancers just pure talent! She had the best performance at TIDAL and yes even better then both Bey performances!
I was so amazed by Bey last night. What a woman
I’m just over here living for Haunted!!! Lord knows she has paid that gem dust. So far she has performed FORMATION,PYCM, Hold Up, DHY, Sorry, 6 inch, All Night, and Freedom. Wonder if there will be a medley for Grammys or AMAs or Soultrain for that matter. Say what y’all will about FORMATION but that’s a stage slayer every time. It’s so infectious. Real contender for Record of the year.
When she improved her visual and production, the haters said they are not needed. FYI, Beyoncé has done the simple performance for the last decade of her career as well as the concept of simple videos. The reasons why these poptarts are doing simple performances and videos (Gaga, Rih, Nicki) are because they want to gain respect from the GP like Bey (which however, does not work for them,in GP eyes , they are still not vocalists). And these pop tarts are trying with simple videos as if they will become Single Ladies or 7/11.
Nicki was great
Excited for JOANNE’S first week sales…….i think it will do over 600kSPS and she could have the highest selling female album this year too.
I still haven’t seen nicki I’m so pissed
Bey’s such a warrior on stage! Tumbles down steps, blood spills or locks of hair caught in wind machines is no match for the might Bey!
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I was Tidal X 2016 and I guess I was looking for more dancing from Bey. AND where was Jay Z??!!?? Now Lauryn Hill and T.I did there thang. And yes Ms.Hill was ON TIME LOL!!!
You better lip-synch for your life
Awesome