It was a white Christmas on Wednesday as Beyoncé made a Houston homecoming in basic Texas fashion.
Clad in all white, the 32x Grammy winner rode into NRG Stadium on a white horse, performing ’16 Carriages’ and her Beatles ‘Blackbiird’ cowl to kick off her A Cowboy Carter Christmas NFL halftime present on the Houston Texans-Baltimore Ravens recreation.
Taking the sphere with a gaggle of white-clad dancers and marching band, Bey continued together with her songs ‘Ya Ya’, ‘Riiverdance’, earlier than she was joined by Shaboozey. She continued with ‘Candy Honey Buckin” and ‘Levii’s Denims’, for which she was joined by Put up Malone.
Beyoncé then sang her model of Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’ whereas sitting atop the backseat of a transferring convertible, earlier than taking the stage and singing her debut nation album’s lead single ‘Texas Maintain ‘Em’.
“I’m so honored to be in Texas proper now,” she mentioned. “It’s solely proper that we do ‘Texas Maintain ‘Em’ for the primary time in Houston, Texas on Christmas.”
The artist was then joined by daughter 12-year-old Blue Ivy Carter, who joined in on the sq. dance choreo together with her mother.
Though Jay-Z didn’t be a part of the household hoedown, Bey’s halftime efficiency comes after NFL commissioner Roger Goodell beforehand addressed the league’s partnership with Roc Nation amid the rape allegation towards her husband.
“We’re conscious of the civil allegations and Jay-Z’s actually sturdy response to that,” he mentioned at a press convention this month. “We all know clearly that litigation is going on now. However from our standpoint our relationship isn’t altering with them, together with our preparations for the following Tremendous Bowl.”
The 24x Grammy winner was accused of raping a 13-year-old lady in 2000 in a current refiling of a civil lawsuit towards Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
