Tag: Beyonce

Jay-Z called out the Grammys for never awarding Beyoncé the Best Album honor during speech

Jay-Z wasn’t afraid to call the Grammys out for never awarding Beyoncé the Best Album award.

One of the strangest snubs in Grammys history has been music sensation Beyoncé never winning Best Album at the awards show.

While accepting a special honor for Global Impact from the Grammys on Sunday night with his daughter Blue Ivy Carter at his side, rap legend Jay-Z called out the Recording Academy for never recognizing Beyoncé in its biggest category despite making some of the definitive albums of the past decade-plus.

Everyone with a rooting interest in the Grammys has openly wondered the same thing, and her husband Jay-Z made sure to make that question known while accepting this career honor during this year’s ceremony.

It’s a very fair thing to mention!

Award shows like the Grammys are fundamentally flawed when trying to parse through the breadth of music, and rarely does the Recording Academy ever “get it right” with its top honors. However, Beyoncé’s impact on the art form will always extend far, far past an awards show like this.

We’re hoping Beyoncé will take home the Best Album honor one of these days, and we’re very much with Jay-Z that it should’ve happened already.

Beyoncé shines at Renaissance tour film London premiere with stars like Taylor Swift in attendance

It’s a dazzling red carpet affair.

Beyoncé is taking center stage tonight in London with the premiere of RENAISSANCE: A Film by Beyoncé. The music goddess toured from May until October 2023, and spanned cities across Europe and the United States. With an estimated $560 million grossed, the Renaissance World Tour is one of — if not the most — successful tours for a female artist.

Much like Taylor Swift with her Eras Tour movie, Beyoncé is bringing the concert experience to fans in the comfort of a theater. The movie debuted in Beverly Hills, California on November 25, and took the party to the United Kingdom.

Beyoncé stunned with a sequined jacket over a bodysuit and hit the red carpet with daughter Blue Ivy.

Swift was in attendance in a sparkly silver dress, much like Beyoncé showed support for the Eras Tour movie premiere last month. Unsurprisingly, the stars were out on the red carpet in support of RENAISSANCE: A Film by Beyoncé,

If Taylor Swift is flying to London for Beyoncé’s movie premiere, will she be back for Travis Kelce’s Chiefs game?

Does this mean Taylor Swift will miss Sunday’s Chiefs and Packers game?

Taylor Swift fans are once again tracking her flights, and it’s setting up to be a really interesting weekend of travel for the singer/songwriter.

The international premiere of Beyonce’s Renaissance tour movie is on Thursday, and just as the superstar singer attended Swift’s Eras Tour movie premiere, it looks like Swift is returning the favor.

That’s awesome and wonderful and, if true, we can’t wait to see the photos.

But will Swift be back in time for Sunday’s Kansas City Chiefs game in Green Bay?

We’ll see. But with a private jet, Swift can go to London, hang out for a day or two and still fly back in time for a game that’s on Sunday night at 8:20 p.m. Eastern. No problem!

 

Panthers fans react to David Tepper’s brief press conference on Tuesday

It seems as though Panthers fans would rather watch a winning football team in their stadium instead of Beyoncé or Lionel Messi.

For the second straight year, Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper had to hold a press conference to address the in-season firing of his head coach. And also for the second straight year, he wasn’t exactly impressive in doing so.

Here are some of the fans’ reactions to Tuesday’s painfully brief presser:

11 photos from Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour movie premiere, including Beyoncé!

Taylor Swift stuns on the red carpet as stars like Beyoncé joins the film festivities.

Taylor Swift took to the red carpet in Los Angeles on Wednesday evening as her new movie version of her incredibly popular Eras Tour made its debut. The movie — which has broken the $100 million mark in pre-sales — releases everywhere October 13 and already has a 100 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

MORE: Jim Nantz described seeing broken-hearted fans while announcing Taylor Swift wasn’t at Chiefs-Vikings game

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour takes viewers through two hours and 48 minutes of the performances of the tour, which will hit the road again November 9 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Unsurprisingly, it was a star-studded affair as celebrities like Mariska Hargitay (Law & Order: SVU) and Simu Liu (Barbie) as well as singers Maren Morris attended the premiere. The iconic Beyoncé was also there for the festivities, looking stunning with the movie’s leading lady before the viewing.

Here are some of the best sights from the premiere.

A’ja Wilson is cementing herself as a legend, winning back-to-back WNBA Defensive POY

A’ja Wilson cannot be stopped!

In the words of Beyoncé, Las Vegas Aces center A’ja Wilson is forever that girl. The reigning WNBA MVP has earned back-to-back Defensive Player of the Year (DPOY) awards.

It’s not every day that you watch history being made, but Wilson seemingly rewrites the books regularly.

As just 27 years old, she’s got enough hardware for a lifetime. Wilson is an Olympic gold medalist, a WNBA champion, a two-time MVP, a five-time All-Star, a two-time WNBA All-Defensive First Team selection and has multiple DPOY awards.

This year, she led the league in blocks (89), averaging a career-high 2.23 blocks per game. Rounding out her impressive season, Wilson also averaged 22.8 points, 9.5 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 1.4 steals a game. If that wasn’t enough, she had one of the most outstanding basketball performances ever as she casually dropped 53 points against the Atlanta Dream. Unreal.

Hello, Alien Superstar.

Wilson’s teammate and fellow All-Star, Kelsey Plum, thinks she deserves more respect.

“You name it, she’s done it,” Plum said recently on Showtime’s All The Smoke podcast. “She gets shorted all the time.”

Truth be told, what Wilson is doing is otherworldly. She is a living legend and a fantastic representation of the WNBA’s talent. Fans everywhere get fireworks every time she touches the court.

Keep shining, A’ja. The world deserves to see you glow.

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5 great things about the 2023 Grammys, including Lizzo, Harry Styles and that astonishing hip-hop tribute

Lizzo! 50 years of hip-hop! Harry Styles!

The 2023 Grammys have come and gone, leaving everyone with plenty of Beyoncé takes, new Ben Affleck memes and stellar performances to rewatch over and over again.

The night’s biggest moments featured Beyoncé both becoming the most-decorated artist in Grammy history and controversially losing the Best Album honor for a fourth time. Queen Bey was also late to the show because she was stuck in Los Angeles traffic.

The show also featured some hilarious Ben Affleck clips, some incredible tribute performances and great little moments like Adele meeting Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

The Grammys always land with a bang and leave plenty of people both amazed and frustrated.

Rather than dwell on the negative, let’s break down five great things about this year’s installment.

Beyoncé losing Best Album for a fourth time at the Grammys had fans absolutely outraged

Beyoncé got snubbed for Best Album … again.

The Grammys are known for stirring up controversy with their Best Album picks, and this year’s was certainly no exception.

Rather than finally reward music megastar Beyoncé with her first Best Album award, the Recording Academy opted for British pop star Harry Styles and his album Harry’s House.

While Styles’ album earned lots of love and got plenty of airplay, Beyoncé’s unfortunate history with the Grammys’ top category resurfaced after her fourth loss in the category.

She was also nominated for groundbreaking works like 2008’s I Am… Sasha Fierce, 2013’s self-titled Beyoncé and 2016’s Lemonade.

While Beyoncé became the Grammys’ most-awarded artist of all time on Sunday night, she still couldn’t take home the show’s top honor for her 2022 album Renaissance.

It’s a bit like how the Academy Awards didn’t give Martin Scorsese the Best Directing Oscar until 2006’s The Departed. You just home the Recording Academy won’t wait that long to recognize Beyoncé for the top Grammy out there.

Let’s just say there were some folks who were not happy about Beyoncé’s latest Best Album snub.

Beyoncé made Grammys history while she was stuck in Los Angeles traffic, and the internet had jokes

“Where’s Beyoncé?!”

Music superstar Beyoncé found out about one of life’s great equalizers on Sunday night: Los Angeles traffic.

As she won Best R&B Song for her hit “Cuff It” off of last year’s Renaissance, folks attending this year’s Grammy Awards began to wonder why Beyoncé wasn’t the one going to the stage to accept the award.

Well, show host Trevor Noah announced to the crowd that Queen Bey was stuck in L.A. traffic and on her way to the ceremony.

Legendary musician Niles Rodgers got some very deserved stage time to accept his role in creating the song, but Beyoncé’s absence mainly just left everyone wondering what Lizzo said earlier in the show.

“Where’s Beyoncé?”

As you can guess, the internet was aflutter as Beyoncé missed her first award of the night, one that tied her for the record for all-time Grammy wins.

While the megastar wasn’t present, newly minted EGOT winner Viola Davis did love getting to announce Beyoncé’s first win of the night. So that’s nice!

 

Beyoncé announces dates for the Renaissance World Tour

The 41-stop Renaissance World Tour begins in May.

Seven months after the release of her seventh studio album, Renaissance, Beyoncé is taking her music on the road for a 41-leg World Tour.

The Break My Soul songstress announced the Renaissance World Tour Wednesday on Instagram, and added a link to her social accounts that leads to a list of every single date and location of the five-month long tour along with a button to register for each.

Renaissance will be Beyoncé’s first solo headlining tour since The Formation World Tour in 2016, though she co-headlined the On The Run II Tour with Jay-Z in 2018.

Here’s a look at every single date that’s been announced:

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5/10 Stockholm

5/14 Brussels

5/17 Cardiff, UK

5/20 Edinburgh, UK

5/23 Sunderland, UK

5/26 Paris

5/29 London

5/30 London

6/8 Barcelona, Spain

6/11 Marseille, France

6/15 Cologne, Germany

6/17 Amsterdam

6/21 Hamburg, Germany

6/24 Frankfurt, Germany

6/27 Warsaw, Poland

7/8 Toronto

7/12 Philadelphia

7/15 Nashville, TN

7/17 Louisville, KY

7/20 Minneapolis

7/22 Chicago

7/26 Detroit

7/29 East Rutherford, NJ

8/1 Boston

8/3 Pittsburgh

8/5 Washington, DC

8/9 Charlotte, NC

8/11 Atlanta

8/16 Tampa, FL

8/18 Miami

8/21 St. Louis

8/24 Phoenix

8/26 Las Vegas

8/30 San Francisco

9/2 Inglewood, CA

9/11 Vancouver, BC

9/13 Seattle

9/18 Kansas City, MO

9/21 Dallas

9/23 Houston

9/27 New Orleans

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