HOUSTON, TEXAS - DECEMBER 25: Beyoncé performs during the halftime show for the game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Houston Texans at NRG Stadium on December 25, 2024 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images)
Most of us don’t go to a Beyoncé stadium show — a country-era Beyoncé stadium show, no less — and expect to hear Death Grips pumping out of stadium speakers. But that’s what happened on Monday night, when Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Tour held its grand opening at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. The show is exactly the kind of vast spectacle that Beyoncé’s past work would lead you to expect, and it’s full of interludes and costume changes. During one of those interludes, the crowd got an earful of jittery sludge-riffage while ominous news-type footage played on the giant screens.
