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It Sure Looks Like Netflix Just Announced a Beyoncé Special


Netflix sent Beyoncé fans into a frenzy on Sunday (April 7) after the streaming giant tweeted out a promotional graphic for an upcoming project called Homecoming. Though there’s no other information available so far besides the title and a release date of April 17, the Beyhive immediately started to draw connections between the project and the Lemonade singer. Let’s break it down.

First, multiple fans quickly pointed out that the colors and the Greek font used in a teaser poster is similar to the ones used for the merch from Beyoncé’s iconic 2018 Coachella set.

There are also quite a few other clues to suggest fans are on the right track, including the timing of the release date. The alleged new doc premieres right after this year’s first Coachella weekend, which is scheduled April 12 to 14. Secondly, Us Weekly reported earlier this month that the singer is working on a new album and a Netflix special, with sources saying the project “will be tied to her Coachella 2018 performance”. Her two set dates last year were April 14 and 21; a release date of April 17 would fall pretty squarely between the one-year anniversaries of those two performances.

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Her show-stopping Coachella set, quickly nicknamed “Beychella,” was widely interpreted as an homage to the HCBU experience, as well as to black fraternities and their traditions. It also featured a Destiny’s Child reunion and performances with her sister Solange Knowles and Bey’s husband Jay Z. Beyoncé also made history as the first black woman to headline the festival.

Beyonce Knowles performs onstage during the 2018 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Field on...
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Meanwhile, HuffPost also pointed out that Beyoncé recently announced the Homecoming Scholars Award Program, which perfectly coincides with the documentary’s name.

At least one fan account is sure it has it nailed, theorizing that the special will give viewers a behind-the-scenes look at how her performances came together.

And Twitter being Twitter, it’s safe to say the Beyhive is collectively losing its mind over this rumored documentary drop:



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Beyoncé and Jay Z Used Meghan Markle's Portrait as the Backdrop of Their Brit Awards Speech


To the public’s knowledge, Beyoncé and Jay Z and Meghan Markle have yet to come into contact with one another. But that doesn’t mean there’s any less love between them. The Carters gave their stamp of approval to the Duchess of Sussex in a surprising way when they made a cameo at the 2019 Brit Awards. Well, technically the awards show only featured a video of them, as they weren’t in attendance. But when the video played, Markle was at the center of it.

After the Carters were announced as the winner for Best International Group, Beyoncé and Jay Z gave their thanks in a pre-recorded video message that was shot in front of a portrait of Markle. The clip plays like a riff on their “Apesh*t” video, from Jay Z wearing a similar double-breasted blazer and Beyoncé wearing a vibrant suit blazer without a shirt like they both did in the original to the way the camera pans out on them standing still in front of the portrait — in place of the Mona Lisa — while their Everything Is Love standout plays. In the portrait, Markle isn’t just a glowing royal; she looks to be an actual queen, which is quite the compliment from one queen to another.

In their speech, Bey and Jay didn’t acknowledge the painting, which made it all the more surreal. Instead they gave a rather boilerplate speech, with Bey saying, “Thank you so much to the Brit Awards for this incredible honour. You guys have always been so supportive. Everything is love. Thank you,” to which Jay jokingly added, “You’re Welcome.” The pair then turn their backs to the camera and face the portrait of Markle. All the while, in the background, you can hear what is most likely Blue Ivy’s voice.

The painting of Markle has a surprising origin. It was created by artist Tim O’Brien for the alumni magazine of Markle’s former sorority Kappa Kappa Gama. O’Brien acknowledged that his painting has now been immortalized by the Carters on Twitter, where he wrote, “Interesting to see my painting of Megan Markle behind @Beyonce and JZ for their Brit award. Congratulations to them both.”

Meanwhile, Beyoncé explained why they chose to use the painting as a backdrop, later on Instagram, writing, “Thank you to the Brits for the award for Best International Group. I won this award back in 2002 with my besties, Kelly and Michelle. How lucky am I to have been in a group with my other best friend, the GOAT Hova. ?? In honor of Black History Month, we bow down to one of our Melanated Monas. Congrats on your pregnancy! We wish you so much joy.”

Hopefully, for both parties (and their voracious fans), this culminates in a real-life meeting.



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Beyoncé Is Offering a Lifetime Supply of Tickets If You Go Vegan, and People Are Losing It


Beyoncé just gave everyone a huge incentive to eat lettuce. The music queen took to Instagram on Wednesday night (January 30) and revealed she’s offering the chance to win free tickets to her concerts for life if you go vegan. Yup, that’s right: If you want to see Bey from now until the end of time (eh?), all you have to do is give up meat. And dairy. And all the other delicious foods vegans don’t eat. But there’s a silver lining, people: Beyoncé. For. Life.

The giveaway is happening through The Greenprint Project, which is dedicated to showing you how eating just one plant-based meal a day can help the environment. “What is your Greenprint? Click the link in my bio for a chance to win tickets to any JAY and/or my shows for life,” Beyoncé wrote on Instagram, linking to the sweepstakes.

In all seriousness, there’s no logical way Greenprint can actually check to see if you’re vegan should you win this contest—but that’s not stopping people from metaphorically throwing out all the meat in their freezers. When Beyoncé wants something, you just do it. I don’t make up the rules.

Check out a few folks prepared to give up all the cheese for Queen B:

Beyoncé’s partnership with this project shouldn’t come as a surprise. After several buzzy teasers, she infamously “revealed” on Good Morning America in 2015 that she’d adopted a vegan lifestyle.

“This is something I have to share with everyone,” she said at the time. “I am not naturally the thinnest woman. I have curves. I’m proud of my curves, and I have struggled since a young age with diets. And finding something that actually works, that actually keeps the weight off, has been difficult for me…. I felt like my skin was really firm, a lot tighter than when I deprived myself of food and got the weight off fast. And the weight stayed off.”



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Beyoncé and Jay-Z Just Surprised This Teenager With a $100,000 Scholarship


When Jay-Z and Beyoncé aren’t busy being two of the biggest stars on the planet, they’re changing lives. The latest example of their altruism came Wednesday night (September 19) at their most recent stop on the couple’s On the Run II Tour, in Glendale, Arizona. The dynamic duo surprised an Arizona teen, Mikayla Lowry, with a $100,000 college scholarship.

“They said my name and I was like, ‘WHAT?’,” Lowry told ABC about the experience. “It just felt unreal.” The scholarship comes courtesy of an initiative from the Shawn Carter Foundation and the BeyGOOD Initiative, which is responsible for doling out over $1 million in scholarships to youths who are in major need of assistance.

On Sunday, Jay and Bey were in Houston, where they continued making dreams come true. “I didn’t know what to say, and she gave me a huge hug and Jay-Z was just like chilling,” Alezae Uresti, another 17-year-old who received a scholarship (this time in Bey’s hometown) told ABC. “So I gave her a hug, and then after that, me and Beyoncé took a picture and I told Jay-Z, ‘Come on, come on, get in the picture,’ so we all took a picture.”

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Each winner of the scholarship is selected by the Boys & Girls Club of America, an organization devoted to enabling “young people most in need to achieve great futures as productive, caring, responsible citizens,” according to an official official press release. According to the Shawn Carter Foundation website, “The mission of the Shawn Carter Foundation is to help individuals facing socioeconomic hardships further their education at post secondary institutions.”

Beyoncé has a long history of giving scholarships to exceptional teens in need of financial aid. After her game-changing Coachella set in April, she donated $100,000 to four historically black colleges and universities.

As for Mikayla, she’ll get to be the first person in her family to go to school, thanks to the scholarship. “Everyone was just happy for me,” she told ABC. Watch Mikayla have her life changed forever, courtesy of DJ Khaled, in the above video.

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Beyoncé Stopped Herself From Falling Down the Stairs in Concert Like a Pro


Beyoncé performs almost every single one of her concerts in stilettos, and her ongoing On the Run II tour with Jay-Z is no exception. That means, though, that the occasional trip or misstep is bound to happen. The latest hiccup happened Thursday night (August 23) at Bey and Jay’s OTRII show in Nashville: Queen B nearly fell down the stairs on stage, but she used some kind of otherworldly strength to catch her balance on one foot. That, my friends, is truly defying gravity.

One concertgoer, who shared their angle of the breathtaking save on Instagram, titled the moment “Beyoncé Vs ‘The Stairs,'” declaring, “Beyoncé Wins!” In the video, you see Bey walk down the stairs; her right ankle begins to wobble, causing her to come down hard on her left foot and sink into a squat. At this point, a normal human would’ve been unable to stop their legs from flying out in front of them, but not Beyoncé: Instead, she did a subtle body roll to fight the fall and used her leg strength to push up and out of the squat.

See it for yourself, below:

This isn’t the first on-stage mishap to happen on the OTRII Tour. During her and Jay-Z’s show in Warsaw, Poland in early July, Bey was flying over the audience while performing “Young Forever” when her floating stage malfunctioned, leaving her stranded in midair. Rather than freaking out, Beyoncé remained nonchalant and blew kisses to the fans below until a crew member could set up an emergency ladder.

During her Philadelphia concert at the end of July, Bey’s ponytail braid reportedly got stuck in her earring while she was dancing up a storm. Fans described on Twitter how, despite that annoyance, she never missed a step and never even tried to unhook her hair. Dedication!

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Beyoncé Wears This Highlighter, and No Higher Endorsement Exists


Beyoncé’s cover for the September issue of Vogue dropped on Monday, and the Internet hasn’t stopped talking about it since. From Beyoncé’s overarching creative direction, to Tyler Mitchell (at 23-years old, the publication’s first-ever black cover photographer), to the candid as told to essay, everything came together to solidify its place in history. And while Beyoncé’s glow may have seemed like it was radiating directly from the light inside of her, some important knowledge just dropped: the name of the highlighter responsible for her soft-lit sheen.

It’s all thanks to her makeup artist, Sir John, who broke down exactly how to get the glow.

According to reps for the brand, Sir John started off by prepping Bey’s skin with Marc Jacobs’s Beauty’s Under(cover) Perfecting Coconut Face Primer (recently crowned a Glamour staff fave). Then, he used a two-part step to get that precise “bronzey, rose-gold finish”: First up, Marc Jacobs Beauty’s Dew Drops Coconut Gel Highlighter in Fantasy, which he put on the high points of her face.

After that, he mixed Marc Jacobs Beauty’s Dew Drops Coconut Gel Highlighter in Fantasy with foundation slightly darker than her face for what he calls a “3D cheek.” “It’s all about a glowy contour. Dew Drops are worth their weight in gold. It’s the one thing I have in my bag everywhere. I use it for concerts, for shoots, for tours—I use it religiously,” he said. Finally, Sir John topped off his gorgeous creation with Marc Jacobs Beauty’s Finish-Line Perfecting Coconut Setting Powder.

Dew Drops is no stranger to celebrities’ faces—stars from Selena Gomez, to Cardi B, to Gisele and Janelle Monae have worn the original highlighter and the Fantasy version on the red carpet and beyond. But Sir John’s tip? “Always avoid shimmer on the front of the face. Apply it to your angles for sexiness.” And that, friends, is how you get a Beyoncé-worthy highlight.

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