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NEWS ABOUT BEYONCE FORMATION
Beyoncé knows how to steal the show.
A day before Super Bowl 50, the deity released a new song and video called "Formation." The song sounds more in line with her last release "7/11" — it's also riskier, filthier, angrier, and pulpier than her gigantic pop hits. The chorus is beguiling — I still can't shake the twangs out of my head — and lyrically, "Formation" is stuff that Bey has never sung before.
"My daddy Alabama / my mama Louisiana," she sings. "You mix that Negro with that Creole, make a Texas Bama."
The video is also a protest. It opens with Beyoncé squatting on a New Orleans police car that's halfway submerged in water, evoking memories of Hurricane Katrina. There's also a haunting image of Bey, draped in all black, holding up two middle fingers to the world, all in front of a Louisiana mansion. And toward the end of the video, there are cops in riot gear facing a little boy dancing; both the cops and the little boy put their hands in the air, evoking the "hands up, don't shoot" gesture.
Bey was already scheduled to perform during the halftime show with Coldplay — she sings on the band's new song "Hymn for the Weekend."
But that part on "Hymn" seemed a little too small for a star like Beyoncé on a stage as big as the Super Bowl halftime show. Now with the release of "Formation", Beyoncé's appearance and hyped performance makes more sense. And, well, it makes everything a little more exciting.
"Formation" is available on Tidal.
Beyonce Formation Video
It was either the protest that never was or the one that folks decided they no longer cared about.
The announced anti-Beyonce protest Tuesday morning in front of the NFL Headquarters in New York was a bust. It instead turned into more of a pro-Bey rally, as more supporters than dissidents showed up.
The turnout was so low that one Beyonce supporter held a sign that read, "Where yall at?"
It all began following Beyonce's "Formation" video release and Super Bowl performance which had some on social media complaining that her Black Lives Matter and Black Panthers themes were offensive and anti-police.
A posting on Eventbrite encouraged those "offended as an American that Beyoncé pulled her race-baiting stunt at the Superbowl" to gather on Tuesday to "show the world that it's not necessary to be disruptive to America while conveying an effective message to the masses."
The evite linked back to an under-construction website of a group calling itself "Proud of the Blues -- Civilian Fleet" and the hashtag #BoycottBeyonce became a popular one.
Whether the protest was a serious attempt or not, Beyonce supporters had a very real response and called for a counter-protest. And they were the ones who actually turned out on a drizzly Tuesday morning.
Early Tuesday a tweet from "Proud of the Blues" account called on protesters to attend.
Beyoncé Reminisces About Her Fierce 2013 Super Bowl Halftime Show: WatchQueen Bey just dropped a new single and its accompanying music video a day before her scheduled Super Bowl 50 halftime performance.
The song came as surprise to fans a day before the singer's scheduled Super Bowl performance.
Beyoncé Reminisces About Her Fierce 2013 Super Bowl Halftime Show: WatchQueen Bey just dropped a new single and its accompanying music video a day before her scheduled Super Bowl 50 halftime performance.
"Formation (Dirty)" came as a surprise to fans when Beyoncé posted the song on her YouTube page on Saturday and made it available for free download on Tidal.
The singer's daughter, Blue Ivy, also makes an appearance multiple times throughout the politically-charged, New Orleans-set video. It begins with Beyonce on top of a police car in a flooded street and later cuts to a man holding a newspaper with Martin Luther King Jr.'s face on it with the title "The Truth." Later on, a young hooded black boy dances in front of a line of SWAT officers before the video cuts to a graffitied wall with the words "stop shooting us" tagged on it.
Beyoncé is set to perform at Sunday's Super Bowl at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., alongside Coldplay.
Beyoncé has performed the trick known as “doing a Beyoncé”, releasing a surprise new single ahead of her appearance in Sunday night’s Super Bowlhalftime show.
Just as she did with her 2013 album Beyoncé, the singer released the single Formation with no warning. Unsurprisingly, it came out through Tidal, the streaming service set up by her husband, Jay Z. She did, however, make a video to go with it, so those without Tidal accounts can hear the song.
Formation is Beyoncé’s first new music since the tracks that appeared on the deluxe edition of Beyoncé in 2014. Have a listen and let us know what you think.
