June 1, 2025 • 27 mins
The moment Beyoncé took the stage and said "there's a lot of talking going on," the tears started flowing. Not just because I was witnessing the artist of our generation, but because her live vocals were an exact match to her studio recordings—a testament to her extraordinary talent that left me speechless.
From "American Requiem" opening the show to her strategic performance of the national anthem leading into "Freedom," every moment of the Cowboy Carter tour was meticulously crafted with intention and meaning. The juxtaposition of these songs created a powerful commentary on America's complex relationship with freedom, especially for Black Americans. This wasn't just entertainment; it was art as social statement.
What truly elevated the experience was witnessing the Carter family dynamics unfold on stage. Blue Ivy's remarkable growth as a performer since the Renaissance tour shows she's exactly who she thinks she is—poised to dominate whatever creative path she chooses. Meanwhile, Rumi's adorable personality and obvious admiration for her mother and sister created some of the night's most heartwarming moments. The genuine love and protection they showed each other humanized these larger-than-life figures.
Beyoncé embodies a philosophy we should all embrace: never ask permission for something that already belongs to you. By reclaiming country music's Black roots and naming her album "Cowboy Carter," she ensures that when people research the connection between the Carter name and country music, they'll find her instead of the white men who have dominated the genre's narrative. Her brilliance extends far beyond her performances—it's in her strategic approach to dismantling barriers.
If you're considering tickets to the Cowboy Carter tour, consider this your sign to make it happen. Whatever the price, whatever the journey, the experience transcends traditional entertainment. You're not just attending a concert; you're witnessing living history, a masterclass in artistic excellence, and perhaps the most important reminder that you can be exactly who you think you are—no permission required.
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Daijné (00:00):
Is this thing on Hello hello.
Uh oh, another yapper with amic.
Hello everyone, and welcomeback to the Napkin In Between
Podcast.
I am your host, Daijné Jones.
I saw Beyonce Full fucking sawbitch.
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I saw Beyonce.
This has not only been the peakof my week, this has been the
peak of my life bitch like.
I can't even really put intowords how amazing seeing her
live was like.
It honestly makes me even moreupset that people play in her
fucking face and try to sayshe's overrated or she's not
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talented or whatever.
Y'all are just racist.
Like that's the onlyexplanation.
That woman is talented out ofthe ass.
Like.
If you want to say you don'tlike her music, okay, odd, odd.
But to say that she's nottalented, you're just racist.
Like you're just racist andstupid and crazy and ridiculous
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because that woman is soincredibly talented like the
artist of our generation,absolutely the artist of our
generation.
From the vocals to theproduction, to the choreography,
to everything.
It's all so carefully craftedout and it's just like nobody's
topping her.
She's just so amazing andseeing her live was genuinely
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one of the best things that Ihave ever done, so I'm gonna
take you all through the entirething.
If you are considering gettingtickets, get them.
Whatever the price is, pay theprice.
I promise you you will not bedisappointed.
I will say, for me personally,it was like a full day thing.
I felt like I needed to likementally prepare myself for the
greatness that I was about towitness.
And you know what?
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The devil and JLo were workingvery hard that morning because
my alarm clock did not go off.
Actually, the day before myinternet was out and I didn't
realize this.
But Alexa if anyone has anAlexa, she needs internet for
everything like this bitch wasuseless without internet.
I couldn't set a timer, Icouldn't set an alarm clock, I
couldn't nothing.
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I could do nothing.
So I set an alarm on my phoneand I already had.
So I wanted to wake up at 10and I saw like in my previously
set alarms it was already onefor 10, so they're like great,
I'll just turn this one on.
Whatever Went to bed the nextmorning I woke up and I said to
myself in my head I'm like I'msleeping a lot Like what's going
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on.
But I was like no, I'm good.
I set my alarm clock Like Ijust laid there.
I didn't even take my eye maskoff to see the brightness or to
see what time it was.
I literally just went back tosleep.
And then I woke up again and Iwas like damn, like I'm sleeping
a lot.
So I took my eye mask off.
I looked at my phone.
My phone said noon, like 12o'clock.
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Mind you, I set my alarm for 10.
So I'm like what the fuck?
I jump out of bed Like I joltmyself up.
It was like someone had likeelectrocuted me and like I
shocked up.
I'm running around because I gota sitter for Luna, because I'm
like I'm going to be gone allday.
I didn't want to chance it, soI got her a sitter for the day,
and the night before I was like,oh my God, because I was
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running around doing so muchlike I wanted to get my nails
done last minute and just dolike final touches, and going to
bed the night before I was like, oh my god, I forgot to pack
Luna's bag for overnight.
But I could just do it in themorning because I'm getting up
early anyway.
So now I'm rushing aroundtrying to pack all her shit up
and I look at my phone and I'mlike why the fuck did my alarm
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not go off?
And I look and at the bottom ofthe 10 am alarm it said every
weekday.
Mind you, it's Sunday.
So like I set an alarm but Ididn't actually set anything
because it was only going to gooff during the week, but
thankfully I was supposed tomeet my friends at three.
I wanted to wake up at 10 justto give myself enough time, but
waking up at noon like I stillhad a bunch of time so I'd walk
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luna to her sitter.
I stopped by the store to get amixer for Teliea and I because
we were going to pre-game theconcert.
I get home, do my makeup.
Teliea and I are taking shotsin between you know different
makeup steps.
We get ready, we go.
We're a little bit late, butlike we were still on time
because we didn't miss any ofthe trains to get out to MetLife
Stadium.
So we get to MetLife Stadiumand Teliea and I are like damn,
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we have to pee.
So there were portapottiesoutside, because we got there
before they even opened thegates and there were porter
parties outside.
So even open the gates andthere were portapotties outside.
So we were like we were in.
So I don't know how to reallyexplain this, but like we were
in the inner circle of theparking lot to get into metlife
stadium.
There was like this innersection where people were, and
then there was like a longerline on the outer section.
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But we were able, like the whenwe got there.
We were early, so we got intothe point like the intersection,
and there were people on theoutside.
The portapotties were on theoutside section of the parking
lot.
So we're like, oh, we're gonnago to the bathroom real quick
and we'll be right back.
We go to the bathroom, we'restanding in line and this guy
looks up to us and he's like hey, if you don't want to wait in
this long ass line, because theline was really long.
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He's like there's portapottiesaround the um, around the side,
if you want to go around there,there's no line.
So we go over there, we go tothe portapotties, whatever.
We come back and we're tryingto get back into the inner
circle where our friends wereand they had blocked it off, and
so we're talking to thesecurity guard and we're like,
hey, like our friends are inthere, can we get back in?
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We were just in there.
We just left to go to thebathroom and then we just wanted
to get back in and they're like, yeah, yeah, like everybody's
saying that, and I'm like, no,like, I can literally text my
friend to ask her to come overhere and she can like vouch for
us.
But they were like, no, you'regonna have to wait in the line
like everybody else.
So I'm like, damn, not a suckout with the commoners, but
anyway.
So we go around, we're walkingaround and we're trying to find
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the end of the line Massivefucking like that.
And there's like 20 lines andwe're trying to find the end of
one of them because we're justtrying to get in line so that we
can get into MetLife Stadium.
So we finally find the end of aline and we're like, holy shit,
it's going to take us foreverto get inside.
Then I don't know where thesecurity guard comes up and he's
like let some people over herein the vip line.
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So people start going.
Teliea and I follow the peopleand we were actually one of the
first people to get in.
I told y'all the devil and Jlowas working hard, but Beyoncé
and God were working way harder.
So now we're actually one ofthe first people inside this
stadium and we immediately go tothe merch line because I was
like, if I don't get this bluehoodie, I'm knocking all of this
shit over.
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So we go to the merch stand.
Well, actually, first we wentto there was like a cécred not a
really a cécred pop-up becausethere were no products there,
but like we got these little keychains that it looks like the
cécred bottles with a sash.
It says cowboy carter on it.
So we're in line to get the keychain and keep in mind that we
are in the two hands to heavensection, right, right, we're in
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like nosebleeds.
When Beyonce said you can't getno higher than this, she was
talking about our seats, becausewe was in the nosebleeds and so
one of the goals that we hadwas to try to get upgraded.
So we're in line for the cécredkey chain.
And there's like workers outthere and in order to get the
key chain, you had to sign upfor text messages, and so
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they're all out there likesaying like, oh, make sure you
sign up for the text message.
Here's the qr code you have toscan to get the sign up.
And one of the ladies istalking to us about the text
messages and then her eyes, likeshe, like they get wide and
she's like I know you fromsomewhere and I'm like, oh,
tiktok.
And she's like, yes, like shestarts screaming like oh, my god
, I love your videos.
And anytime I meet someone, Ialways black out and I never
remember like what to say orwhat to do, because I'm just not
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used to being noticed.
But like that would have beenthe perfect time for me to be
like hey, can you upgrade us?
But I didn't ask because Iforgot.
Anyway, we get the keychainsand then we go over to get merch
.
So we get to the merch standand the two things that I really
wanted were the blue hoodie andthe black fan.
Those were the two things thatI planned to spend money on the
blue hoodie and the black fan.
They didn't have the black fan,so I got a red, white and blue
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one, whatever.
But then I saw these shorts andI'm nobody is talking about
these shorts, that is, at themerch stands.
They're so fucking cute.
They're like ripped at the topand then on the back there they
have a.
They have a patch that sayscowboy carter.
Immediately, when I saw thoseshorts, I was like, oh, I'm
about to give this lady more ofmy money, because I just
couldn't pass them up.
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They were just so cute.
So then I ended up getting theshorts and also a t-shirt this
t-shirt that I'm wearing rightnow.
So, yeah, I ended up givingthat lady all my money.
Whatever, we're not going totalk about it.
So then we go inside, meet upwith our friends.
Um, we all get food together,and then Talia and I's seats was
in one section, and then myfriend and her husband were in
another section.
So we all wanted to getupgraded, but hopefully
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potentially together.
But if it was still two and two, we planned to do that anyway,
so it didn't really matter.
So after we eat, we're like,okay, we're gonna go to guest
services and see if get upgraded.
Now my thought process was Ididn't want to just walk up to
them and be like, hey, can youupgrade us?
That's kind of rude.
So my thought process was letme start a conversation with
someone at guest services ratherthan just walking up to them
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and be like, hey, can youupgrade us.
Like, let me try to talk tothem a little bit and and slip
it in there kind of sly, youknow.
And and slip it in there kindof sly, you know what I mean.
So we walk up to the guestservices and I immediately go to
the man, because men are easy.
So I figured that was probably,if I was going to get upgraded,
maybe the man would do it,because men easy, like sunday
morning, you know what I mean.
So I walk up to the guestservices and I'm like, hey, like
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, how's your day going?
He's like okay.
And I'm like, oh, he alreadygot a fucking attitude.
But okay, let me just try, letme just see what.
Let's see what's going on.
So I'm like are you a Beyoncefan?
Like, do you like Beyonce?
And he's like, eh, like she'sokay, whatever immediate red
flag.
Because what do you mean?
Okay, like, that's crazy.
But I'm like, okay, like, whatare some of your favorite
Beyonce songs?
And he starts thinking now,mind you, like I don't really
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give a fuck about his favoritesongs, I'm just trying to get
upgraded.
But I didn't want to come offas like hey, can you upgrade me?
So I was like you know what aresome of your favorite Beyonce
songs?
But he's like thinking about,like, what his answer is.
And he's like oh, like, Ireally like me myself.
And I good song, great song.
And I'm like, okay, yeah,that's a good one.
And then I said to him like youknow, one of my favorite songs
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is upgrade you.
And he's like oh, I see wherethis is going.
And I said, oh damn, he's aboutto tell me no.
So he basically explained to melike Ticketmaster sells the
tickets, we just host the party.
So if you want to get upgradedyou have to buy a whole, nother
ticket.
Da, da, da da da.
I'm like that's not whateverybody on TikTok is saying.
I've seen other people getupgraded, but I don't know if
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they were just extra strict onSunday or what.
But like we went to that guestservices and then we went to our
section to talk to, uh, theperson who's checking tickets at
our section.
He's like you have to go toguest services.
We had already been there.
So then we tried to godownstairs and somehow MetLife
Stadium is really confusing.
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So we go down all these stairsand it leads us to outside.
So we're like, oh, we're notgoing to go outside.
So we turn back around, go backupstairs and we're trying to
get to either the 200 level orthe 100 level to talk to the,
the guest services there.
We couldn't find out how to getback down after we had come up.
So we're like you know whatfuck it, like we're just going
to stay in our seats, whatever.
So we didn't end up beingupgraded, but I still feel like
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that was a clever way to ask.
And hot girls don't gatekeep.
So if anybody else is trying toget upgraded, don't just walk
up to them people and be like,hey, can you upgrade me?
Like I feel like that's kind ofrude.
Like start a conversation withthem a little bit and then ask
and if you want to steal that,go ahead.
It didn't work for me, buthopefully it'll work for
somebody else.
So, anyway, we get to our seats.
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We are sitting there waiting forthe show to start because, also
, our feet were hurting.
Like I didn't realize how muchcowboy boots actually hurt.
Like I talked to some peoplewho live in the country and wear
cowboy boots and they told melike, oh, you're going to have
to break them in.
But like, when they came and Iwas walking around in them a
little bit around my house, Iwas like, oh, like these aren't
bad, like they didn't feel likeI needed to break them and they
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weren't hurting my feet.
But after wearing them for alittle bit, I was like, oh, I
definitely should have wornthese a little bit more.
But the show finally starts.
She opens with American Requiem,as she should, and the second.
She said there's a lot oftalking going on.
I immediately started tearingup because, first of all, it's
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Beyonce.
Like what?
Like it it's still had itregistered to me that I was
seeing Beyonce.
Like it's just crazy.
But she also sounds exactlylike she does in the studio.
Is how she sounds live, andI've been to several concerts
and different artists soundsimilar to how they do in the
studio.
But she sounds it's like copyand paste, like it sounded like
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she was and don't y'all don'ttake this around with it because
she wasn't lip-syncing, but itsounded like she was just
lip-syncing because of how muchit sounded like the studio album
.
But anyway, she opens withAmerican Requiem and I need to
figure out how do we start apetition to make American
Requiem the new national anthem.
That's my national anthem.
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If I, if I'm going somewhereand they say please rise for the
national anthem and AmericanRequiem doesn't start playing,
I'm sitting back down becausefuck that other national anthem.
Because, mind you, there's asecond verse that's full of
racism that nobody ever talksabout.
Like fuck that star-spangledbanner bullshit.
My national anthem is americanrequiem.
That's.
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That's what I'm saluting to andalso speaking of.
Okay, there might be a littlespoilers in here, so if you're
going and you don't want anyspoilers, skip ahead a little
bit.
But beyonce does do a littlebit of the national anthem in
the show and, like I said before, everything is so carefully
crafted out and intentional.
With Beyonce, which I absolutelylove, because, as she's singing
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the national anthem, she singsit in a way that sounds like a
protest.
Well, first of all, it's JimiHendrix version of the national
anthem, so that adds up.
But the way that she sings it,it's like I don't really know
how to explain it.
But it's not that she's singingoff tune, because it's beyonce
she could never but she sings itin a way that it's like off.
You know what I mean.
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Like the national anthem issupposed to be the sign of, like
, showing love to the countryand da, da, da, da.
But like america doesn't deserveany respect, especially from
black people, because of the waythat America treats us, and
that's how she kind of sings it.
It's like I don't want to sayshe's like disrespecting the
national anthem, and if she iswhat about it?
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Who gonna check her?
But what I'm trying to say islike it's it's really difficult
for me to explain, I can'treally put into words, because I
mean the concert it's.
It's like it's still kind oflike a blur to me, like the only
way that I knew that I wasactually there is because I have
videos of it.
But like I feel like I, low-key, blacked out a little bit, but
she sings it in a way that it'sjust like, it's like off, as it
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should be, because everything inamerica is off and weird and
and not okay.
But it goes into freedom, which,oh, I can't hear freedom
anymore without thinking ofkamala.
I miss her.
I miss her real bad.
Like, oh, we could have had her, but she had a funny laugh.
Oh, I hate everyone who didn'tvote for kamala.
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I, I will never forgive you andI fucking hate you.
I just want to.
I want you to know I will neverforgive you and I fucking hate
you.
Like, honestly, fuck y'all,because now we have this fucking
orange dictator in the fuckingWhite House.
He wants to be a dictator sobad, and it's just like.
Anyways, I'm reminiscing onBeyonce.
I'm not gonna get into it, butI hate y'all.
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If you didn't vote for KamalaHarris, I hate you.
Anyway, it goes into freedomand I feel like the offset of
these two songs together it waslike this is what America wants
us to believe, that it, thisStar Spangled Banner, is a
representation of our freedom,when it's absolute fucking
bullshit.
And we're still waiting forfreedom.
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You know what I mean.
Oh, I just love her.
I love her brain.
I love her.
She's so smart, she's such aclever girl.
You know what I mean.
Brain, I love her.
She's so smart, she's such aclever girl, you know what I
mean.
Like, she is just sointentional and she thinks
everything through and I, just,as an overthinker, I love how
much she thinks and how much sheputs time and effort and
carefully crafts everything thatshe does.
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I also love how much you cantell as she's performing.
I love how she loves herchildren like she.
She truly is their protector.
They're all, they all protecteach other as they're on stage
and it is just the most amazingthing to see little roomie.
I love her.
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I love her personality.
She's just.
She's so unintentionally funnyand she was.
She was happy to see us onnight three.
She's just so cute and it's soodd I'm seeing people trying to
diagnose her and prefacing this.
If she is autistic, there isnothing wrong with that.
Nothing wrong with Rumi beingautistic.
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What is wrong is y'all tryingto diagnose her off of just
little clips that you're seeingon TikTok, like when did y'all
go to school for this?
When did y'all get your degree?
When did y'all do the work?
Because, as someone who has amaster's in social work and
worked as a children's therapist, if you're in the social work
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field or any sort of therapistfield, you agreed to a code of
ethics and in that code ofethics you agreed to not
diagnose someone without havingproper conversations and without
having the therapist clientrelationship.
You know what I mean.
In order for you to diagnosesomeone or to give your
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professional opinion and I sayprofessional in quotes because a
lot of you bitches who aretalking aren't professionals in
the field.
Let's start there.
But when you're in the fieldand when you have that degree
and when you're working in thosespaces, you are not supposed to
be trying to diagnose someonewithout having that relationship
and without actually workingwith them.
Like that's literally a code ofethics that you agree to and
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that you could lose your licensefor not adhering to.
So it's always so weird to mewhen I see people online who
have a degree in social work orare in the field and they're
like diagnosing people online orlike talk like it's just like
you're not supposed to do that.
This is kind of like I have adegree in social work.
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I, when I was in the field,agreed to the code of ethics and
it's just not something thatyou're supposed to do.
It's it's unethical.
So that's just weird that y'allare doing that.
And I feel like some of thereason that some people are
doing that is because they viewBeyonce as perfect and if her
daughter has autism, then thatsomehow lessens her and that
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makes her imperfect, which isfucking weird in itself, because
you're just showing your ownableism.
You're showing that you viewpeople who have autism as less
than or as imperfect.
There's nothing wrong withbeing autistic or or anything
like y'all are.
Y'all are just weird.
That's just a very weird thingthat y'all are doing.
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It's just really crazy to me,like y'all really be telling on
yourselves y'all, y'all say somuch without realizing you're
saying anything at all.
Y'all need to work on that.
But anyway, rumi was so cute andI love seeing her relationship
with Beyonce and herrelationship with Blue.
Like you can just tell, shelooks up to Blue and Beyonce so
much.
She wants to be just like herbig sister and it's just so cute
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.
Oh my god, I'm gonna cry.
I love them.
And Blue, big sister, and it'sjust so cute.
Oh my god, I'm gonna cry.
I love them.
And blue let's talk about blue.
Blue is exactly who she thinksshe is.
I am just so excited to see whatit is that she wants to do,
because whatever it is that shedecides to do, I know she's
taking it.
If she decides to sing, popgirl is in j-lo you should be
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trembling in your boot, your,your timbers should be shivered
because she's, she's coming forit, she's she's taking it, she's
gonna.
Whatever she wants to do, she'staking it.
I want y'all to know that.
And it's crazy because I feelsuch a sense of pride with
seeing her growth from therenaissance tour to now, like
she's getting so much morecomfortable on stage.
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With every, every performance,she just is getting better and
better, which is so amazing tosee.
And mind y'all, she's only 13.
She has so much aura at 13.
It is insane.
I'm just so excited to see whatshe does.
And to the men who were sittingbeside us at the concert count
your fucking days, because thatshit y'all pulled just raggedy.
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This is why I say men, mendon't deserve to be in the
presence of beyonce, becausey'all y'all just have no couth
and no decorum.
During america has a problem,they decided that they wanted to
go get beer, so they walked infront of us right before america
has a problem started and thenthey wanted to go back to their
seats right as blue was about todo her dance break.
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I literally they were trying toget by me and I was recording.
Obviously, I literally put myfinger up like this and I was
like you're gonna have to waitor like go behind me, like
something.
During america has a problem iscrazy.
Men need to start their livesin jail and prove themselves out
.
Why would you do that?
Why would you do that DuringAmerica has a Problem is fucking
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crazy.
And then they kept doing it theentire show.
They would leave to go getsomething and then come back,
and I was literally.
It got to the point where meand the girl on the other side
of me not my roommate, but theother woman we literally just
started making them go behind usBecause you're interrupting
everything.
Like sit down somewhere.
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What the fuck are you doing?
Like?
Oh, this is why I hate men.
I hate men.
They deserve nothing.
They need to start their livesin jail and prove themselves out
anyway.
The concert was amazing.
Unfortunately, I didn't get toredeem myself from the mute
challenge, which I'm reallyupset about, because back when
renaissance, when she wastouring for Renaissance, I got
invited last minute to go to oneof the nights in Atlanta.
And when I say last minute, itwas like a couple hours before
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the show was about to start.
I got invited.
And it was also last minutebecause.
So when I lived in Atlanta, Iwas on Bumble BFF.
So Bumble, the dating app, hasa section it's called bumble bff
where you can find friendsright.
And I had matched with thisgirl earlier that day on bumble
bff and she messaged me thatnight and was like hey, I have
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two tickets to see therenaissance.
Like do you want to go?
And I was like obviously I wantto go, but at the same time
like I didn't know if it wasactually real.
Like Atlanta is very scammy andpeople scam a lot in Atlanta.
Atlanta, it's just not a realplace, it's like a simulation
for real, and so I was like, oh,like, do I want to go?
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Do I not want to go?
I I decided not to go because Ijust didn't know.
I didn't know and maybe it wasreal, maybe it wasn't, I don't
know, but I wake up the nextmorning.
Maybe it wasn't, I don't know,but I wake up the next morning
after that night, and that wasthe night that she told Atlanta
that they won the mute challengeand I could have potentially
been in the building when shesaid that.
So my entire goal for theCowboy Carter tour was I wanted
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to win the mute challengebecause I needed that moment,
but we didn't win it ever.
They failed miserably.
I was quiet and most of thepeople in my section were quiet,
but other people weren't.
Anyway, I say all this to sayamazing show Beyonce is.
I mean I need to go again.
I need to go again.
I've been looking at tickets.
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It's so funny.
Me and my roommate were talkingthis morning and she's like
I've been looking at tickets andI literally I looked at her
because I've also been lookingat tickets and she mentioned
atlanta and I was like, oh mygod.
Yes, like I've been looking atatlanta and also vegas and she
goes.
Why are we the same person?
Because I've been looking atthe same two places too.
So if y'all see me at theconcert again, just know I paid
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the price again and if you arethinking about going to see it,
I cannot recommend enough.
Beyonce is an amazing concertand it's crazy because, like I
really grew up with her, likegrowing up I've talked about
this a little bit before I grewup in a very strict Christian
household and so any sort ofsecular or worldly music my
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grandma was not having that shit.
But I feel like the only artistor the only worldly secular
music that she like reallycouldn't stop me from hearing or
listening to was Beyonce,because Beyonce is just
everywhere, like everyone knowsBeyonce, everyone knows a
Beyonce song, like even if youtry, it's like impossible to not
hear Beyonce because she'severywhere, as she should be,
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because she's the artist of ourgeneration, and so growing up
like Beyonce was like one of themain artists that I was just
listening to because of mycousins or my friends at school,
whatever, and so to kind ofhave this like full circle
moment of her being like theonly person that I listened to
growing up because that was likethe only person that I could
listen to to now seeing her inconcert like, oh, I just feel
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like my life is fulfilled andand I have so many other like
music festivals and concertscoming up this year and I just
know that none of them are gonnatop Beyonce.
That's why I need to go again,because I'm just not.
I'm not gonna get that feelingagain.
I need to see Beyonce to getthat feeling.
I just love that.
She's literally like the epitomeof a person who is just never
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going to allow anybody to puther in a box, and I love that.
I think that that's how weshould all operate, like fuck
your norms, your boxes, yourwhatever.
Like I don't have to live inanything other than what I want
to do.
And I love a part of her show.
It said never anything otherthan what I want to do.
And I love a part of her showit said never ask for permission
for something that alreadybelongs to you.
Something along those linesbest advice in the fucking world
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, especially with something likecountry music, because it's
been so whitewashed and and Ilove also so the Carter family
that invented country music,which I say in quotes because
literally old dude just wentaround stealing and then put it
out as himself.
I love that.
She is kind of reclaiming thatas well, like naming the album
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cowboy carter, and now whenpeople look up carter and
country music, beyonce comes upand not that man.
I love her brain.
Like she is just a fuckinggenius and I just love that she
never asked for permissionbecause she never needed to,
especially for something likecountry music.
As a black woman from Houston,texas, bye, get, bye, get the
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fuck.
What are you talking?
What are we even talking about?
Asking for permission to docountry music?
Please be so for real.
Anyway, as we wrap up today, Ijust want to say a million out
of ten show.
If you are thinking about going, please, I am begging you to go
.
I promise you you will have thebest time because not only is
she just an amazing performer,like she's an amazing role model
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too and she's just showing somany black women especially that
, like again, you do not need toask permission for anything
that belongs to you.
Do whatever you want, don'tallow people to put you in a box
.
You don't have to conform toanything.
You can do whatever you want,because you're exactly who you
think you are, and I just lovethat.
I think that's the best adviceand that's what I mean.
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I was already doing that, butnow I'm about to do that even
more, because witnessing it formy own eyes is just yeah, you
bitches can't tell me shit.
So, anyway, I say all that tosay get tickets to the concert.
Not only is it an amazingperformance, but she's just an
amazing person to look up to andto pull inspiration and take
advice from.
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So if you're on the fence, thisis your sign get those tickets
and go.
You will not regret it.
Thank you guys.
So much for tuning into today'sepisode.
I hope everyone is having agood day, except for that orange
drink, lady, and I will talk toyou in the next episode.
Peace and love.
Talk to you later.
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Podcast.
I am your host, Daijné Jones.
I saw Beyonce Full fucking sawbitch.
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I saw Beyonce.
This has not only been the peakof my week, this has been the
peak of my life bitch like.
I can't even really put intowords how amazing seeing her
live was like.
It honestly makes me even moreupset that people play in her
fucking face and try to sayshe's overrated or she's not
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talented or whatever.
Y'all are just racist.
Like that's the onlyexplanation.
That woman is talented out ofthe ass.
Like.
If you want to say you don'tlike her music, okay, odd, odd.
But to say that she's nottalented, you're just racist.
Like you're just racist andstupid and crazy and ridiculous
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because that woman is soincredibly talented like the
artist of our generation,absolutely the artist of our
generation.
From the vocals to theproduction, to the choreography,
to everything.
It's all so carefully craftedout and it's just like nobody's
topping her.
She's just so amazing andseeing her live was genuinely
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one of the best things that Ihave ever done, so I'm gonna
take you all through the entirething.
If you are considering gettingtickets, get them.
Whatever the price is, pay theprice.
I promise you you will not bedisappointed.
I will say, for me personally,it was like a full day thing.
I felt like I needed to likementally prepare myself for the
greatness that I was about towitness.
And you know what?
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The devil and JLo were workingvery hard that morning because
my alarm clock did not go off.
Actually, the day before myinternet was out and I didn't
realize this.
But Alexa if anyone has anAlexa, she needs internet for
everything like this bitch wasuseless without internet.
I couldn't set a timer, Icouldn't set an alarm clock, I
couldn't nothing.
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I could do nothing.
So I set an alarm on my phoneand I already had.
So I wanted to wake up at 10and I saw like in my previously
set alarms it was already onefor 10, so they're like great,
I'll just turn this one on.
Whatever Went to bed the nextmorning I woke up and I said to
myself in my head I'm like I'msleeping a lot Like what's going
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on.
But I was like no, I'm good.
I set my alarm clock Like Ijust laid there.
I didn't even take my eye maskoff to see the brightness or to
see what time it was.
I literally just went back tosleep.
And then I woke up again and Iwas like damn, like I'm sleeping
a lot.
So I took my eye mask off.
I looked at my phone.
My phone said noon, like 12o'clock.
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Mind you, I set my alarm for 10.
So I'm like what the fuck?
I jump out of bed Like I joltmyself up.
It was like someone had likeelectrocuted me and like I
shocked up.
I'm running around because I gota sitter for Luna, because I'm
like I'm going to be gone allday.
I didn't want to chance it, soI got her a sitter for the day,
and the night before I was like,oh my God, because I was
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running around doing so muchlike I wanted to get my nails
done last minute and just dolike final touches, and going to
bed the night before I was like, oh my god, I forgot to pack
Luna's bag for overnight.
But I could just do it in themorning because I'm getting up
early anyway.
So now I'm rushing aroundtrying to pack all her shit up
and I look at my phone and I'mlike why the fuck did my alarm
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not go off?
And I look and at the bottom ofthe 10 am alarm it said every
weekday.
Mind you, it's Sunday.
So like I set an alarm but Ididn't actually set anything
because it was only going to gooff during the week, but
thankfully I was supposed tomeet my friends at three.
I wanted to wake up at 10 justto give myself enough time, but
waking up at noon like I stillhad a bunch of time so I'd walk
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luna to her sitter.
I stopped by the store to get amixer for Teliea and I because
we were going to pre-game theconcert.
I get home, do my makeup.
Teliea and I are taking shotsin between you know different
makeup steps.
We get ready, we go.
We're a little bit late, butlike we were still on time
because we didn't miss any ofthe trains to get out to MetLife
Stadium.
So we get to MetLife Stadiumand Teliea and I are like damn,
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we have to pee.
So there were portapottiesoutside, because we got there
before they even opened thegates and there were porter
parties outside.
So even open the gates andthere were portapotties outside.
So we were like we were in.
So I don't know how to reallyexplain this, but like we were
in the inner circle of theparking lot to get into metlife
stadium.
There was like this innersection where people were, and
then there was like a longerline on the outer section.
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But we were able, like the whenwe got there.
We were early, so we got intothe point like the intersection,
and there were people on theoutside.
The portapotties were on theoutside section of the parking
lot.
So we're like, oh, we're gonnago to the bathroom real quick
and we'll be right back.
We go to the bathroom, we'restanding in line and this guy
looks up to us and he's like hey, if you don't want to wait in
this long ass line, because theline was really long.
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He's like there's portapottiesaround the um, around the side,
if you want to go around there,there's no line.
So we go over there, we go tothe portapotties, whatever.
We come back and we're tryingto get back into the inner
circle where our friends wereand they had blocked it off, and
so we're talking to thesecurity guard and we're like,
hey, like our friends are inthere, can we get back in?
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We were just in there.
We just left to go to thebathroom and then we just wanted
to get back in and they're like, yeah, yeah, like everybody's
saying that, and I'm like, no,like, I can literally text my
friend to ask her to come overhere and she can like vouch for
us.
But they were like, no, you'regonna have to wait in the line
like everybody else.
So I'm like, damn, not a suckout with the commoners, but
anyway.
So we go around, we're walkingaround and we're trying to find
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the end of the line Massivefucking like that.
And there's like 20 lines andwe're trying to find the end of
one of them because we're justtrying to get in line so that we
can get into MetLife Stadium.
So we finally find the end of aline and we're like, holy shit,
it's going to take us foreverto get inside.
Then I don't know where thesecurity guard comes up and he's
like let some people over herein the vip line.
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So people start going.
Teliea and I follow the peopleand we were actually one of the
first people to get in.
I told y'all the devil and Jlowas working hard, but Beyoncé
and God were working way harder.
So now we're actually one ofthe first people inside this
stadium and we immediately go tothe merch line because I was
like, if I don't get this bluehoodie, I'm knocking all of this
shit over.
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So we go to the merch stand.
Well, actually, first we wentto there was like a cécred not a
really a cécred pop-up becausethere were no products there,
but like we got these little keychains that it looks like the
cécred bottles with a sash.
It says cowboy carter on it.
So we're in line to get the keychain and keep in mind that we
are in the two hands to heavensection, right, right, we're in
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like nosebleeds.
When Beyonce said you can't getno higher than this, she was
talking about our seats, becausewe was in the nosebleeds and so
one of the goals that we hadwas to try to get upgraded.
So we're in line for the cécredkey chain.
And there's like workers outthere and in order to get the
key chain, you had to sign upfor text messages, and so
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they're all out there likesaying like, oh, make sure you
sign up for the text message.
Here's the qr code you have toscan to get the sign up.
And one of the ladies istalking to us about the text
messages and then her eyes, likeshe, like they get wide and
she's like I know you fromsomewhere and I'm like, oh,
tiktok.
And she's like, yes, like shestarts screaming like oh, my god
, I love your videos.
And anytime I meet someone, Ialways black out and I never
remember like what to say orwhat to do, because I'm just not
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used to being noticed.
But like that would have beenthe perfect time for me to be
like hey, can you upgrade us?
But I didn't ask because Iforgot.
Anyway, we get the keychainsand then we go over to get merch
.
So we get to the merch standand the two things that I really
wanted were the blue hoodie andthe black fan.
Those were the two things thatI planned to spend money on the
blue hoodie and the black fan.
They didn't have the black fan,so I got a red, white and blue
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one, whatever.
But then I saw these shorts andI'm nobody is talking about
these shorts, that is, at themerch stands.
They're so fucking cute.
They're like ripped at the topand then on the back there they
have a.
They have a patch that sayscowboy carter.
Immediately, when I saw thoseshorts, I was like, oh, I'm
about to give this lady more ofmy money, because I just
couldn't pass them up.
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They were just so cute.
So then I ended up getting theshorts and also a t-shirt this
t-shirt that I'm wearing rightnow.
So, yeah, I ended up givingthat lady all my money.
Whatever, we're not going totalk about it.
So then we go inside, meet upwith our friends.
Um, we all get food together,and then Talia and I's seats was
in one section, and then myfriend and her husband were in
another section.
So we all wanted to getupgraded, but hopefully
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potentially together.
But if it was still two and two, we planned to do that anyway,
so it didn't really matter.
So after we eat, we're like,okay, we're gonna go to guest
services and see if get upgraded.
Now my thought process was Ididn't want to just walk up to
them and be like, hey, can youupgrade us?
That's kind of rude.
So my thought process was letme start a conversation with
someone at guest services ratherthan just walking up to them
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and be like, hey, can youupgrade us.
Like, let me try to talk tothem a little bit and and slip
it in there kind of sly, youknow.
And and slip it in there kindof sly, you know what I mean.
So we walk up to the guestservices and I immediately go to
the man, because men are easy.
So I figured that was probably,if I was going to get upgraded,
maybe the man would do it,because men easy, like sunday
morning, you know what I mean.
So I walk up to the guestservices and I'm like, hey, like
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, how's your day going?
He's like okay.
And I'm like, oh, he alreadygot a fucking attitude.
But okay, let me just try, letme just see what.
Let's see what's going on.
So I'm like are you a Beyoncefan?
Like, do you like Beyonce?
And he's like, eh, like she'sokay, whatever immediate red
flag.
Because what do you mean?
Okay, like, that's crazy.
But I'm like, okay, like, whatare some of your favorite
Beyonce songs?
And he starts thinking now,mind you, like I don't really
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give a fuck about his favoritesongs, I'm just trying to get
upgraded.
But I didn't want to come offas like hey, can you upgrade me?
So I was like you know what aresome of your favorite Beyonce
songs?
But he's like thinking about,like, what his answer is.
And he's like oh, like, Ireally like me myself.
And I good song, great song.
And I'm like, okay, yeah,that's a good one.
And then I said to him like youknow, one of my favorite songs
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is upgrade you.
And he's like oh, I see wherethis is going.
And I said, oh damn, he's aboutto tell me no.
So he basically explained to melike Ticketmaster sells the
tickets, we just host the party.
So if you want to get upgradedyou have to buy a whole, nother
ticket.
Da, da, da da da.
I'm like that's not whateverybody on TikTok is saying.
I've seen other people getupgraded, but I don't know if
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they were just extra strict onSunday or what.
But like we went to that guestservices and then we went to our
section to talk to, uh, theperson who's checking tickets at
our section.
He's like you have to go toguest services.
We had already been there.
So then we tried to godownstairs and somehow MetLife
Stadium is really confusing.
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So we go down all these stairsand it leads us to outside.
So we're like, oh, we're notgoing to go outside.
So we turn back around, go backupstairs and we're trying to
get to either the 200 level orthe 100 level to talk to the,
the guest services there.
We couldn't find out how to getback down after we had come up.
So we're like you know whatfuck it, like we're just going
to stay in our seats, whatever.
So we didn't end up beingupgraded, but I still feel like
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that was a clever way to ask.
And hot girls don't gatekeep.
So if anybody else is trying toget upgraded, don't just walk
up to them people and be like,hey, can you upgrade me?
Like I feel like that's kind ofrude.
Like start a conversation withthem a little bit and then ask
and if you want to steal that,go ahead.
It didn't work for me, buthopefully it'll work for
somebody else.
So, anyway, we get to our seats.
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We are sitting there waiting forthe show to start because, also
, our feet were hurting.
Like I didn't realize how muchcowboy boots actually hurt.
Like I talked to some peoplewho live in the country and wear
cowboy boots and they told melike, oh, you're going to have
to break them in.
But like, when they came and Iwas walking around in them a
little bit around my house, Iwas like, oh, like these aren't
bad, like they didn't feel likeI needed to break them and they
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weren't hurting my feet.
But after wearing them for alittle bit, I was like, oh, I
definitely should have wornthese a little bit more.
But the show finally starts.
She opens with American Requiem,as she should, and the second.
She said there's a lot oftalking going on.
I immediately started tearingup because, first of all, it's
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Beyonce.
Like what?
Like it it's still had itregistered to me that I was
seeing Beyonce.
Like it's just crazy.
But she also sounds exactlylike she does in the studio.
Is how she sounds live, andI've been to several concerts
and different artists soundsimilar to how they do in the
studio.
But she sounds it's like copyand paste, like it sounded like
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she was and don't y'all don'ttake this around with it because
she wasn't lip-syncing, but itsounded like she was just
lip-syncing because of how muchit sounded like the studio album
.
But anyway, she opens withAmerican Requiem and I need to
figure out how do we start apetition to make American
Requiem the new national anthem.
That's my national anthem.
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If I, if I'm going somewhereand they say please rise for the
national anthem and AmericanRequiem doesn't start playing,
I'm sitting back down becausefuck that other national anthem.
Because, mind you, there's asecond verse that's full of
racism that nobody ever talksabout.
Like fuck that star-spangledbanner bullshit.
My national anthem is americanrequiem.
That's.
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That's what I'm saluting to andalso speaking of.
Okay, there might be a littlespoilers in here, so if you're
going and you don't want anyspoilers, skip ahead a little
bit.
But beyonce does do a littlebit of the national anthem in
the show and, like I said before, everything is so carefully
crafted out and intentional.
With Beyonce, which I absolutelylove, because, as she's singing
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the national anthem, she singsit in a way that sounds like a
protest.
Well, first of all, it's JimiHendrix version of the national
anthem, so that adds up.
But the way that she sings it,it's like I don't really know
how to explain it.
But it's not that she's singingoff tune, because it's beyonce
she could never but she sings itin a way that it's like off.
You know what I mean.
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Like the national anthem issupposed to be the sign of, like
, showing love to the countryand da, da, da, da.
But like america doesn't deserveany respect, especially from
black people, because of the waythat America treats us, and
that's how she kind of sings it.
It's like I don't want to sayshe's like disrespecting the
national anthem, and if she iswhat about it?
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Who gonna check her?
But what I'm trying to say islike it's it's really difficult
for me to explain, I can'treally put into words, because I
mean the concert it's.
It's like it's still kind oflike a blur to me, like the only
way that I knew that I wasactually there is because I have
videos of it.
But like I feel like I, low-key, blacked out a little bit, but
she sings it in a way that it'sjust like, it's like off, as it
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should be, because everything inamerica is off and weird and
and not okay.
But it goes into freedom, which,oh, I can't hear freedom
anymore without thinking ofkamala.
I miss her.
I miss her real bad.
Like, oh, we could have had her, but she had a funny laugh.
Oh, I hate everyone who didn'tvote for kamala.
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I, I will never forgive you andI fucking hate you.
I just want to.
I want you to know I will neverforgive you and I fucking hate
you.
Like, honestly, fuck y'all,because now we have this fucking
orange dictator in the fuckingWhite House.
He wants to be a dictator sobad, and it's just like.
Anyways, I'm reminiscing onBeyonce.
I'm not gonna get into it, butI hate y'all.
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If you didn't vote for KamalaHarris, I hate you.
Anyway, it goes into freedomand I feel like the offset of
these two songs together it waslike this is what America wants
us to believe, that it, thisStar Spangled Banner, is a
representation of our freedom,when it's absolute fucking
bullshit.
And we're still waiting forfreedom.
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You know what I mean.
Oh, I just love her.
I love her brain.
I love her.
She's so smart, she's such aclever girl.
You know what I mean.
Brain, I love her.
She's so smart, she's such aclever girl, you know what I
mean.
Like, she is just sointentional and she thinks
everything through and I, just,as an overthinker, I love how
much she thinks and how much sheputs time and effort and
carefully crafts everything thatshe does.
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I also love how much you cantell as she's performing.
I love how she loves herchildren like she.
She truly is their protector.
They're all, they all protecteach other as they're on stage
and it is just the most amazingthing to see little roomie.
I love her.
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I love her personality.
She's just.
She's so unintentionally funnyand she was.
She was happy to see us onnight three.
She's just so cute and it's soodd I'm seeing people trying to
diagnose her and prefacing this.
If she is autistic, there isnothing wrong with that.
Nothing wrong with Rumi beingautistic.
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What is wrong is y'all tryingto diagnose her off of just
little clips that you're seeingon TikTok, like when did y'all
go to school for this?
When did y'all get your degree?
When did y'all do the work?
Because, as someone who has amaster's in social work and
worked as a children's therapist, if you're in the social work
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field or any sort of therapistfield, you agreed to a code of
ethics and in that code ofethics you agreed to not
diagnose someone without havingproper conversations and without
having the therapist clientrelationship.
You know what I mean.
In order for you to diagnosesomeone or to give your
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professional opinion and I sayprofessional in quotes because a
lot of you bitches who aretalking aren't professionals in
the field.
Let's start there.
But when you're in the fieldand when you have that degree
and when you're working in thosespaces, you are not supposed to
be trying to diagnose someonewithout having that relationship
and without actually workingwith them.
Like that's literally a code ofethics that you agree to and
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that you could lose your licensefor not adhering to.
So it's always so weird to mewhen I see people online who
have a degree in social work orare in the field and they're
like diagnosing people online orlike talk like it's just like
you're not supposed to do that.
This is kind of like I have adegree in social work.
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I, when I was in the field,agreed to the code of ethics and
it's just not something thatyou're supposed to do.
It's it's unethical.
So that's just weird that y'allare doing that.
And I feel like some of thereason that some people are
doing that is because they viewBeyonce as perfect and if her
daughter has autism, then thatsomehow lessens her and that
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makes her imperfect, which isfucking weird in itself, because
you're just showing your ownableism.
You're showing that you viewpeople who have autism as less
than or as imperfect.
There's nothing wrong withbeing autistic or or anything
like y'all are.
Y'all are just weird.
That's just a very weird thingthat y'all are doing.
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It's just really crazy to me,like y'all really be telling on
yourselves y'all, y'all say somuch without realizing you're
saying anything at all.
Y'all need to work on that.
But anyway, rumi was so cute andI love seeing her relationship
with Beyonce and herrelationship with Blue.
Like you can just tell, shelooks up to Blue and Beyonce so
much.
She wants to be just like herbig sister and it's just so cute
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.
Oh my god, I'm gonna cry.
I love them.
And Blue, big sister, and it'sjust so cute.
Oh my god, I'm gonna cry.
I love them.
And blue let's talk about blue.
Blue is exactly who she thinksshe is.
I am just so excited to see whatit is that she wants to do,
because whatever it is that shedecides to do, I know she's
taking it.
If she decides to sing, popgirl is in j-lo you should be
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trembling in your boot, your,your timbers should be shivered
because she's, she's coming forit, she's she's taking it, she's
gonna.
Whatever she wants to do, she'staking it.
I want y'all to know that.
And it's crazy because I feelsuch a sense of pride with
seeing her growth from therenaissance tour to now, like
she's getting so much morecomfortable on stage.
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With every, every performance,she just is getting better and
better, which is so amazing tosee.
And mind y'all, she's only 13.
She has so much aura at 13.
It is insane.
I'm just so excited to see whatshe does.
And to the men who were sittingbeside us at the concert count
your fucking days, because thatshit y'all pulled just raggedy.
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This is why I say men, mendon't deserve to be in the
presence of beyonce, becausey'all y'all just have no couth
and no decorum.
During america has a problem,they decided that they wanted to
go get beer, so they walked infront of us right before america
has a problem started and thenthey wanted to go back to their
seats right as blue was about todo her dance break.
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I literally they were trying toget by me and I was recording.
Obviously, I literally put myfinger up like this and I was
like you're gonna have to waitor like go behind me, like
something.
During america has a problem iscrazy.
Men need to start their livesin jail and prove themselves out
.
Why would you do that?
Why would you do that DuringAmerica has a Problem is fucking
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crazy.
And then they kept doing it theentire show.
They would leave to go getsomething and then come back,
and I was literally.
It got to the point where meand the girl on the other side
of me not my roommate, but theother woman we literally just
started making them go behind usBecause you're interrupting
everything.
Like sit down somewhere.
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What the fuck are you doing?
Like?
Oh, this is why I hate men.
I hate men.
They deserve nothing.
They need to start their livesin jail and prove themselves out
anyway.
The concert was amazing.
Unfortunately, I didn't get toredeem myself from the mute
challenge, which I'm reallyupset about, because back when
renaissance, when she wastouring for Renaissance, I got
invited last minute to go to oneof the nights in Atlanta.
And when I say last minute, itwas like a couple hours before
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the show was about to start.
I got invited.
And it was also last minutebecause.
So when I lived in Atlanta, Iwas on Bumble BFF.
So Bumble, the dating app, hasa section it's called bumble bff
where you can find friendsright.
And I had matched with thisgirl earlier that day on bumble
bff and she messaged me thatnight and was like hey, I have
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two tickets to see therenaissance.
Like do you want to go?
And I was like obviously I wantto go, but at the same time
like I didn't know if it wasactually real.
Like Atlanta is very scammy andpeople scam a lot in Atlanta.
Atlanta, it's just not a realplace, it's like a simulation
for real, and so I was like, oh,like, do I want to go?
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Do I not want to go?
I I decided not to go because Ijust didn't know.
I didn't know and maybe it wasreal, maybe it wasn't, I don't
know, but I wake up the nextmorning.
Maybe it wasn't, I don't know,but I wake up the next morning
after that night, and that wasthe night that she told Atlanta
that they won the mute challengeand I could have potentially
been in the building when shesaid that.
So my entire goal for theCowboy Carter tour was I wanted
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to win the mute challengebecause I needed that moment,
but we didn't win it ever.
They failed miserably.
I was quiet and most of thepeople in my section were quiet,
but other people weren't.
Anyway, I say all this to sayamazing show Beyonce is.
I mean I need to go again.
I need to go again.
I've been looking at tickets.
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It's so funny.
Me and my roommate were talkingthis morning and she's like
I've been looking at tickets andI literally I looked at her
because I've also been lookingat tickets and she mentioned
atlanta and I was like, oh mygod.
Yes, like I've been looking atatlanta and also vegas and she
goes.
Why are we the same person?
Because I've been looking atthe same two places too.
So if y'all see me at theconcert again, just know I paid
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the price again and if you arethinking about going to see it,
I cannot recommend enough.
Beyonce is an amazing concertand it's crazy because, like I
really grew up with her, likegrowing up I've talked about
this a little bit before I grewup in a very strict Christian
household and so any sort ofsecular or worldly music my
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grandma was not having that shit.
But I feel like the only artistor the only worldly secular
music that she like reallycouldn't stop me from hearing or
listening to was Beyonce,because Beyonce is just
everywhere, like everyone knowsBeyonce, everyone knows a
Beyonce song, like even if youtry, it's like impossible to not
hear Beyonce because she'severywhere, as she should be,
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because she's the artist of ourgeneration, and so growing up
like Beyonce was like one of themain artists that I was just
listening to because of mycousins or my friends at school,
whatever, and so to kind ofhave this like full circle
moment of her being like theonly person that I listened to
growing up because that was likethe only person that I could
listen to to now seeing her inconcert like, oh, I just feel
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like my life is fulfilled andand I have so many other like
music festivals and concertscoming up this year and I just
know that none of them are gonnatop Beyonce.
That's why I need to go again,because I'm just not.
I'm not gonna get that feelingagain.
I need to see Beyonce to getthat feeling.
I just love that.
She's literally like the epitomeof a person who is just never
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going to allow anybody to puther in a box, and I love that.
I think that that's how weshould all operate, like fuck
your norms, your boxes, yourwhatever.
Like I don't have to live inanything other than what I want
to do.
And I love a part of her show.
It said never anything otherthan what I want to do.
And I love a part of her showit said never ask for permission
for something that alreadybelongs to you.
Something along those linesbest advice in the fucking world
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, especially with something likecountry music, because it's
been so whitewashed and and Ilove also so the Carter family
that invented country music,which I say in quotes because
literally old dude just wentaround stealing and then put it
out as himself.
I love that.
She is kind of reclaiming thatas well, like naming the album
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cowboy carter, and now whenpeople look up carter and
country music, beyonce comes upand not that man.
I love her brain.
Like she is just a fuckinggenius and I just love that she
never asked for permissionbecause she never needed to,
especially for something likecountry music.
As a black woman from Houston,texas, bye, get, bye, get the
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fuck.
What are you talking?
What are we even talking about?
Asking for permission to docountry music?
Please be so for real.
Anyway, as we wrap up today, Ijust want to say a million out
of ten show.
If you are thinking about going, please, I am begging you to go
.
I promise you you will have thebest time because not only is
she just an amazing performer,like she's an amazing role model
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too and she's just showing somany black women especially that
, like again, you do not need toask permission for anything
that belongs to you.
Do whatever you want, don'tallow people to put you in a box
.
You don't have to conform toanything.
You can do whatever you want,because you're exactly who you
think you are, and I just lovethat.
I think that's the best adviceand that's what I mean.
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I was already doing that, butnow I'm about to do that even
more, because witnessing it formy own eyes is just yeah, you
bitches can't tell me shit.
So, anyway, I say all that tosay get tickets to the concert.
Not only is it an amazingperformance, but she's just an
amazing person to look up to andto pull inspiration and take
advice from.
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So if you're on the fence, thisis your sign get those tickets
and go.
You will not regret it.
Thank you guys.
So much for tuning into today'sepisode.
I hope everyone is having agood day, except for that orange
drink, lady, and I will talk toyou in the next episode.
Peace and love.
Talk to you later.
The napkin in between, hostedby Daijné Jones, produced by
Daijné Jones, post-production byDaijné Jones, music by Sam
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