Beyonce Dodger Stadium Concert

Beyonce Dodger Stadium Concert

Zion Igwe, A&E Editor

Recently, the iconic African-American pop singer formally known as Beyoncè Giselle Knowles-Carter performed at the Dodger Baseball stadium in Los Angeles as part of her many revenues that she is performing at during her Formation World Tour. This tour began on April 27th, 2016 and is dated to conclude on October 7th, 2016. On September 14th, she performed for her first time at the Dodger Baseball Stadium in Los Angeles in which seated over 60,000 committed “Beehive” enthusiasts and resulted in a successful, sold-out show. This concert had a duration of three hours of non-stop, exciting dancing and singing exuberated by the Queen B herself.

This concert was highly enjoyed by first-time concert goers and frequent concert enthusiasts alike due to the featuring of spectacular, artistic visuals that perfectly correlated with Beyoncè’s music. These visuals evoked senses of joy (from the distinct and vibrant colors featured in some of her music videos) and senses of melancholy from the portrayal of dark colored visuals such as the images incorporated in her performance of the song “Halo”. She performed this concert only with her dancers, backup vocalists, and her band consisting of drums, piano, an electric guitar, and a bass guitar. She also had a musical tribute to the deceased black singer Prince by playing his famous song “Purple Rain” in which she provided with a constant rotating screen of purple as a homage to him. Some of the dancers executed mind-blowing stunts (like performing acrobatics in a huge open cube, suspended in the air in the center of the stage) with absolute expertise thus further enticing the audience to be as enthusiastic and excited as they were. There was also a somewhat religious allusion in which was exemplified by her performance of the song “Freedom” in which she sang on shallow water (giving the impression of her walking on water) and she was surrounded by her 20 dancers whom were constantly running in circles around her and implemented varying dances of the Arts to demonstrate the purpose and give a more up-beat tempo to the song.

Overall, this concert experience was phenomenal and deserves 9 to 9.5 stars out of 10 since there weren’t any featuring artists from any of her many albums. Even though this was her first concert opening at the Dodger’s Stadium, she provided the vast audience with her best performance. The most memorable portion of this concert definitely had to be when she performed one of her many hit songs “Love on Top”. At first, Beyoncè sang the verses of the chorus once and then began to sing it the second time when everyone in the audience began to empower her incredible voice by maintaining constant rhythm of the song and singing the chorus at least ten times. Within each time, it appeared that the audience’s voices became more powerful and passionate in which touched the heart of Beyoncè so much that she had to sit down, listen, and comprehend the beauty of this amazing sight. The stadium riveted with the echoes of the audience and was brightly lit up by the swaying of flashlights on phones which astonished her and everyone else even more. Also, her performance of “Halo” evoked similar reactions within the audience but this time it caused her to continue singing. Most of the crowd members were singing as well and loud as they possibly could. This probably inspired her to finish this powerful last performance to the best of her capabilities in which she exemplified by hitting incredibly high notes and extending the song for about a minute longer to show her compassion and love towards not just the audience members but to everyone who stepped foot in her life and pushed her through her career. To add on to the brilliance found within this concert, she played hilarious videos of her fans that attended the concert, a tribute to her daughter Blue Ivy Carter, a tribute to her husband Jay Z (Shawn Corey Carter), and also to her grandma and her sisters whom shaped her into becoming the iconic pop artist that she is today.