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I'm a little picky about music festivals. While I should really take the plunge and attend whatever great-looking event I can afford at the time, it's easy to look at the line-up and wait for something better. There's always the opportunity to find new music to admire, but I tend to look for at least three bands or artists that I really want to see live before I consider going.
My outlook changes quite a bit when it comes to someone like Beyoncé. More so than maybe any other artist, she is loved by music fans with a huge variety of taste. Whether you like obscure heavy metal or 80s pop ballads, there's a good chance you'd get something out of Lemonade.
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Now, Beyoncé is making history as she headlined Coachella, the music festival in Indio, California. Not only is she the first woman of color to headline the festival, but fans have been waiting for this specific performance long in advance.
The singer was originally meant to headline the festival in 2017, but dropped out last minute at the advice of her doctors, being pretty far along in her twin pregnancy at the time.
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Yet once it got to 2018, she decided to double-down on the performance, with TMZ reporting that she spent 11-hour days in a Los Angeles studio with dancers, choreographers, technicians and other crew members.
She even had a team of security guards patrolling the inside and outside of the studio to make sure no one saw anything in advance. And, soon enough, the rumored 12 dancer routine expanded to include 100 dancers, moving rehearsals to a larger studio. In the end, it looks like it all paid off.
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The singer opened with 'Crazy in Love', accompanied by a brass marching band, and later sang a rendition of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing'. "Coachella, thank you for letting me be the first Black woman to headline," Beyoncé said during the performance, before launching into 'Run the World (Girls)'.
Her full set stretched over two hours, with a Nina Simone tribute, Malcolm X quotes, and plenty of cameo appearances to keep things lively. She sang 'Deja Vu' with husband Jay-Z, and Solange even made a surprise appearance to support her sister on stage.
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But the biggest surprise of the night, which sent fans into a frenzy, was the reunion of all-time greats Destiny's Child.
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Towards the end of the lengthy performance, Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland joined Beyoncé on stage, with renditions of past hits like 'Lose My Breath,' 'Say My Name' and 'Soldier'. As you can imagine, her fans were gobsmacked by the surprise and couldn't contain their excitement.
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Even Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, who represents Beyoncé 's hometown of Houston, congratulated the singer. "Houston's own Beyonce is giving us the dream performance at the 2018 Coachella!" she tweeted. "I am very proud of the artist, entertainer and global philanthropist Beyonce has become".
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Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to spend the rest of the day imagining I was lucky enough to attend Coachella this year.
Published 12:02 09 Jul 2018 GMT
When it comes to celebrity news, you don't have to scroll through social media or flick through a tabloid for very long before coming across something that seems to be nothing more than a rumour. Take the recent buzz over David and Victoria Beckham, for example: for a good 24 hours, everyone was convincedthat they were splitting up - but it just turned out to be baseless speculation.
However, sometimes those rumours turn out to be 100 per cent true. Only recently, for example, the fan theories were proven right when it turned out that Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson had got engaged, and earlier this year we were all shocked to find out that Kylie Jenner had actually been pregnant all along.
And speaking of pregnancies, there's another whisper floating around that Queen Bey herself is expecting again.
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A tweet posted yesterday appeared to show the Lemonade artist rubbing her stomach on stage - much like she did when she announced that she was pregnant with her first child, Blue Ivy.
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So, being the thirsty-for-gossip fans that they are, the entire Beyhive hopped on Twitter to discuss the rumour.
"SHE'S CREATING THE NEXT DESTINY’S CHILD BEFORE OUR EYES," wrote one person.
"As long as she’s up and moving, kicks, booty shaking and all by next month... then we good!" said another.
However, at least one person wasn't buying it: "I’m going to believe that this is a food baby and she just dancing sexy."
Here's the clip in question, so you can decide for yourself whether you think there's any truth to the conspiracy that Beyonce Jr no.4 is on the way:
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So, what do you think? Foetus or food baby? Only time will tell...
"I'm here on stage tonight because just like the Dreamers my parents brought me to this country with nothing in their pockets but hope," she said. "They showed me what it means to work twice as hard and never give up, and honestly, no part of my journey is any different from theirs."
Obviously, in the wake of Donald Trump's recent attempts to scrap DACA, her words were incredibly significant. "I'm a proud Cuban-Mexican immigrant, born in eastern Havana, standing in front of you on the Grammy stage in New York City," she went on, "and all I know is, just like dreams, these kids can't be forgotten and are worth fighting for." [[instagramwidget||https://www.instagram.com/p/Beg7EaoAjYG/?hl=en&taken-by=camila_cabello]] However, even though Camila stole that part of the show with her message, it was Beyonce, Jay-Z and Blue who made the most headlines today. Bey turned a lot of heads by wearing $6.8m of Lorraine Schwartz jewelry, and her husband made one of his first public appearances with the family after opening up about his previous brushes with infidelity on the Van Jones show. During the interview, he credited Blue Ivy as one of the factors which drove him to repair his marriage, and said that he and Beyonce "chose to fight for our love, for our family, to give our kids different outcome". Well, no matter what goes down in the house of Bey-Z, we can assume one thing for sure: Blue Ivy is the true queen.Published 16:55 30 May 2018 GMT
If you're a fan of Ariana Grande, then you've probably been eagerly anticipating her forthcoming album for a number of months now. All we know about the record from the tight-lipped songstress is that it's called Sweetener, the names of six tracks, and that it will be released "sometime this summer".
However, maybe we should be giving the the 24-year-old a little more credit, because as it turns out, she's been dropping hints about the album for a long time now. A year and a half to be exact, and no one, not even her most hardcore fans noticed.
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Well, let's take a look at the evidence, shall we? Back in November of 2016, Ariana shared a photograph of herself on Instagram, and it was simply captioned "Sweetener". Yes, it appears that the Bang Bang singer has been thinking about this upcoming venture for quite some time now, and none of us were any the wiser.
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And while many speculated that it could have just been a coincidence, Ariana herself confirmed that the caption was a reference to the album's title after a fan questioned whether we had all really been so oblivious.
"Did you actually plan to call the album sweetener when you posted that pic on ig in 2016," one of Ariana's Twitter followers asked her.
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To which she replied, "Yes! I always knew. I know some people don’t understand it yet but the body of work feels like sweetener. like warm yummy agave. And clouds. W a little big of crying and sex on the side? I gtg." Well, that is a fantastic description of an album. If this whole singing thing doesn't work, maybe Ariana could get a job writing food descriptions for the menus at restaurants.
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Of course, this revelation blew the minds of Ariana's Instagram followers. They had no idea that, much like Edgar Allen Poe's The Purloined Letter, the secret was hiding in plain sight. But once they had a taste of information, they wanted more, more, more. One Twitter follower commanded Ariana to "Tell us about [the song] "Get Well Soon." Could it be dedicated to her ex, Mac Miller, who's struggled with drug abuse, and smashed his car into a pole while drunk driving?
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The gracious pop queen that she is, Ariana replied, writing, "isss ab my anxiety. i felt like i was floating for like 3 months last year & not in a nice way. like i outside my body? was v scary and i couldn’t breathe well. so it’s ab that. & lots of voices in my head singin. i hope it comforts ppl who hear it pls."
Well, Ariana Grande fans, as you wait for the long-anticipated Sweetener, maybe you should spend some time poring over her Instagram photo. There might be clues for her next album there, and you don't even know it.
In related news, Ariana Grande left a sassy comment on Millie Bobbie Brown's Instagram snap with her boyfriend...