A pregnant woman from Denver, in a shimmery silver disc shift dress, asked me to take a video of her, her sister, and her best friend fanning their merch fans emblazoned with the number ten - a reference to the lyrics for “Heated” ( Ten ten ten across the board). Two 20-somethings had white glitter cowboy hats hanging down their backs.Īt the stadium close to sunset, half the crowd came to dance in on-theme sequins, glitter, and chrome, and the other half came to dance in whatever was comfortable. When I walked around Gamla Stan, Stockholm’s old town, a few hours ahead of the show, I saw a man in official tour merch recognizable from fans’ posts. The customs agent rolled her eyes and said, ‘Ugh, why did I even ask?’ She turned to the other agent and started speaking in Swedish.” Not to say that every Stockholmer was anti-Renaissance: In stores and at restaurants, every local seemed to know someone who wouldn’t miss it. “Going through customs, they ask why you’re here. “There’s been some mixed reception,” Charles Ray Hamilton, a TV writer living in Los Angeles, told me. Is that the polite way to say even locals seemed to find it random? During a walk around the city Tuesday afternoon, I could count other Black people I passed on one hand - and one was a poster promoting the Shondaland show Queen Charlotte. Stockholm is a pleasant but quaint city to start a global tour in. She remembered it saying “Welcome to Beyoncé.” Every Black person she’d met so far in Stockholm has traveled here for the show - except for one couple from Seattle who just came because it’s spring. A film programmer from Los Angeles told me her hotel had a sign in the elevator specifically for the Hive. They got on the plane wearing compression socks for Beyoncé. going for less than $200 in Stockholm) those fans booked entire Eurotrips around Beyoncé. After a viral TikTok tipped off fans that floor seats abroad were selling for one-tenth the cost of tickets in New York or Los Angeles (with enviably close seats that cost $2,000 in the U.S. I swear I could hear the reply sizzle as it hit skin: “ Ohhhh, well it will still be fun!”įor two nights this week, Stockholm became the capital of Black Planet, the epicenter of all internet activity, when the Renaissance tour - Beyoncé’s first solo tour in seven years and two(-ish) albums - took over the city. Night two, or, as far as his seatmate was concerned, night last. One man asked another what night he was seeing the show. I heard it first on the Delta flight from JFK to Stockholm as an almost entirely Black - and almost entirely Beyoncé-bound - boarding group took our seats. It has received over ten certifications including a seven-times platinum certification from Australia and a double-platinum from Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.There is a certain hierarchy between Wednesday, night one of Beyoncé’s Renaissance world tour, and Thursday, night two of Beyoncé’s Renaissance world tour. "Halo" topped the singles charts of Brazil, Norway, and Slovakia, and reached the top five on the singles chart of Australia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the US. It won Best Song at the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards. "Halo" was nominated for Record of the Year and won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards. The song faced a controversy when Kelly Clarkson claimed that Tedder had reused the musical arrangement in her own 2009 song "Already Gone." "Halo" received positive reviews from music critics, who made comparisons with Lewis's 2007 song "Bleeding Love." Its production and Beyoncé's emotional vocals also received critical praise. It features drum, piano, keyboard, string, synthesizer, and percussion instrumentation. "Halo" is a pop power ballad, the lyrics of which describe a sublime love. It was conceived by Tedder and Nealante specifically for Beyoncé, although there was media speculation that it had been intended for Leona Lewis. Inspired by Ray LaMontagne's 2004 song "Shelter," "Halo" was written and composed by Ryan Tedder, Evan Bogart, Eric Nealante Phillips. Columbia Records released the song, the album's fourth single, to mainstream radio in the United States on January 20, 2009, and to international markets from February 20. disc, it was intended to give a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Beyoncé's life, stripped of her make-up and celebrity trappings. "Halo" is a song recorded by American singer Beyoncé for her third studio album, I Am.
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