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Alert: Beyoncé's Coachella Merchandise Is Available to Shop Online


Less than a week after her face-melting Coachella Beychella performance, Beyoncé is gearing up for Weekend 2 of the Indio, California festival by making her official concert merchandise available to all.

Even if you couldn’t swing Coachella tickets this year, you can still get in on the Beychella experience by shopping the performer’s official festival merchandise, previously only available on-site in Indio, on her website. The appropriately-titled “Beychella Pop-Up Store” will be open through mid-May, according to a countdown clock on the homepage, which is ticking down the minutes until it closes forever (which really just adds a sense of urgency to your purchase). You’ll find hoodies, T-shirts, and even windbreakers to commemorate her legendary performance, ranging in price from $40 for a branded bandana bundle to $115 for a jacket.

PHOTO: popup.beyonce.com

The Coachella merchandise isn’t just a cure-all for Beychella FOMO—it’s one way to join Queen Bey’s sorority: As you may remember from Weekend 1, fans were quick to note how Beyoncé’s on-stage wardrobe had plenty of references to Alpha Phi Alpha, the first Black fraternity; on top of the black-and-yellow color scheme, her sweatshirt featured what looked like the Greek letters beta, kappa, and alpha (though, others read the letter as delta, which are also emblazoned on T-shirts and sweatshirts in the Beychella store). If fans really want to pledge “Beyoncé Alpha Knowles,” as some Twitter users dubbed the mythical sorority, they can now dress the part.

PHOTO: popup.beyonce.com

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Tina Knowles-Lawson Was Worried the Coachella Audience Wouldn't 'Get' Beyoncé's Performance


Beyoncé‘s 2018 Coachella performance was incredible for several reasons. First and foremost, she’s Beyoncé; it’s a blessing any and every time she graces us with her presence. Her set was more than just entertaining, though. Throughout the performance, Beyoncé paid tribute to black culture, specifically historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

She started her commentary right at the beginning when a loud voiceover dubbed the show “Beyoncé Homecoming 2018.” It played into the HBCU theme of Bey’s set, while also nodding to the fact she’s the first black woman to ever headline Coachella. This overarching concept was accompanied by drum lines, choirs, and step squads in between Beyoncé’s outfit changes—all hallmarks of HBCUs. She also channeled Wakanda, the fictional nation in Black Panther, during the show, which augmented its black empowerment theme. Thousands of people, specifically black women, left Beyoncé’s Coachella set feeling inspired and more represented than ever before. Beyoncé followed this up by announcing she’s giving $100,000 in scholarship money to four HBCUs:

But Tina Knowles-Lawson, Beyoncé’s mother, was originally concerned about how the performance would be perceived. The famous matriarch revealed on Instagram this week she thought Coachella’s “predominately white” audience wouldn’t understand her daughter’s messaging. Beyoncé, however, wasn’t fazed by that.

“I told Beyonce that I was afraid that the predominately white audience at Coachella would be confused by all of the black culture and black college culture because it was something that they might not get,” she wrote on Instagram, next to a photo of a quote about the Coachella performance. “[Beyoncé’s] brave response to [my concerns] made me feel a bit selfish and ashamed. She said, I have worked very hard to get to the point where I have a true voice, and at this point in my life and my career, I have a responsibility to do what’s best for the world and not what is most popular.”

Knowles-Lawson added that Beyoncé said she hoped that “after the show, young people would research this culture and see how cool it is, and young people, black and white, would listen to ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ and see how amazing the words are for us all and bridge the gap.” (“Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a hymn Beyoncé performed during Coachella that is often referred to as the “black national anthem.”)

“I stand corrected,” Knowles-Lawson wrote at the end of her post. Not only was Beyoncé’s Coachella performance understood: It was embraced.

See Knowles-Lawson’s post for yourself, below:

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Jay Z Opened Up in a Major Way About His and Beyoncé's Marriage in 'Family Feud'


Jay Z just dropped the visual album for his new “Family Feud” track on Friday, and you can bet there’s a whole lot of Beyoncé in it (as there damn well should be). Like Bey’s Lemonade, the video for the song, directed by the glorious Ava DuVernay, is beautifully done and spans more than 400 years (beginning in 2444 and working back to 2018, just in case you thought time behaved in a straight and linear progression). It also features a host of incredible women in cameos, including Mindy Kaling, Rashida Jones, Jessica Chastain, America Ferrera, Thandie Newton, and Rosario Dawson.

But that’s not all: Jay Z also opens up in a really transparent verse about his infidelity and his marriage with Beyoncé–just like he did in “4:44,” (that’s also the title track for the record that “Family Feud” features on). We’ll break it down for you.

“Yeah, I’ll f— up a good thing if you let me
Let me alone, Becky”

“Becky with the good hair” was infamously mentioned in Beyoncé’s “Sorry” from Lemonade as a name for whomever it was that Jay Z was cheating on Bey with: “They sneaking out the back door/He only want me when I’m not there/He better call Becky with the good hair.” We still don’t have official confirmation about who, exactly, Becky is, but these two lines seem to be a direct reference to the same incident.

“A man that don’t take care his family can’t be rich
I’ll watch ‘Godfather,’ I miss that whole sh–
My consciousness was Michael’s common sense
I missed the karma that came as a consequence
N—as bustin’ off through the curtains ’cause she hurtin’
Kay losin’ the babies ’cause their future’s uncertain
Nobody wins when the family feuds
We all screwed ’cause we never had the tools.”

At first glance—and we’re sure more fan theories and analyses will come out—but it seems like Jay Z’s comparing himself to Michael Corleone from the Godfather trilogy. As Bustle points out, Michael put his lil’ Mafia biz before his family, which had destructive consequences on the unit as a whole. In Jay Z’s world, the connection could be made to his infidelities coming before his marriage and family, which brings us to…

…his last line: “We all screwed ’cause we never had the tools.” Strengthening the above theory is an interview Jay Z did with the New York Times in November, when he first went on record saying that he’d cheated. In it, he says that a difficult childhood led to him shutting down emotionally because he was in “survival mode”—maybe a parallel to his statement about how he didn’t have the tools to, apparently, deal with his issues with connection. “You have to survive. So you go into survival mode, and when you go into survival mode, what happens? You shut down all emotions,” Jay Z said, referring to “a difficult childhood that resulted in a tendency to isolate himself” (as Vogue put it). “So even with women, you gonna shut down emotionally, so you can’t connect . . . . In my case, like, it’s deep. And then all the things happen from there: infidelity.”

Listen to a preview clip below, or fire up Tidal to listen to the whole thing.

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Beyoncé's Pregnancy Announcement Is the Most-Liked Instagram Photo of 2017


It’s hard to forget the day when Beyoncé revealed she and Jay Z were expecting twins. I mean, her announcement was truly bonkers—in the best way possible, of course. Queen B decided to break the news on Instagram via an original, fabulous photoshoot. She tossed on a green veil, a brown-and-blue lingerie set, and posed like a regal goddess surrounded by flowers. It was a moment, to say the least—an iconic photo from arguably the most iconic performer of our time.

The snap went viral. We covered it—several times—and so did literally every other outlet that cares about celebrities. Beyoncé’s name quickly started trending on Twitter. Social media exploded. The memes came in hot. In under an hour, Beyoncé’s pregnancy announcement morphed into a bonafide pop-culture sensation. We’re still talking about it!

So we’re not exactly surprised that B’s pic is the most-liked Instagram photo from 2017. The social media platform just released the stats today, and Beyoncé’s baby bump debut racked up an impressive 11.18 million likes. The photo of Bey holding her twins, Sir and Rumi, is the fourth most popular pic of the year.

Coming in behind her is the photo Cristiana Ronaldo posted of his girlfriend, Georgina Rodriguez, and his fourth child, who he welcomed on November 12. That photo received an impressive 11.03 million likes. (Ronaldo has two other entires on the list, as well—both family pics.)

Rounding out the top three is Selena Gomez, whose photo revealing her kidney transplant scooped up 10.31 million likes. Again, this story went completely viral—and Gomez is the most-followed person on Instagram—so this number shouldn’t shock anyone, either. In fact, five of the the top 10 celebrity Instagram photos from this year came from her account. Five!

With these numbers, just imagine if Gomez and Beyoncé posed for a photo together. Now that would actually break the Internet.

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This Video of Young Girls Dancing To Beyoncé's 'Freedom' Will Give You Chills


PHOTO: Courtesy Project Everyone

There’s a lot to be mad about in the world today. (Think: Trump, Congress, Harvey Weinstein, the wage gap… you get the idea.) Which might be why this new video is really resonating with us.

Beyoncé lent her song “Freedom” to the #FreedomForGirls campaign just in time for the International Day of the Girl on Wednesday. It features fierce little girls, ages 5 through 11, singing along to the power anthem. And they. Are. Angry.

The #FreedomForGirls campaign is promoting the UN’s Global Goals, an ambitious set of objectives for what the world should look like by 2030. It’s a partnership between Project Everyone, UNICEF, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The video was directed by MJ Delaney.__

This is the second time Delaney has teamed up with Project Everyone to create a video promoting the Global Goals. Last year, she used the classic Spice Girls song “Wannabe” to ask girls what they really, really want. (Answer: equality.) But this year, Delaney decided to strike a very different tone. “Happy, smiley joy doesn’t really cut the mustard now,” she says. “A lot has happened globally, and I wanted to do something defiant and angry and demanding.”

Also, Delaney says, “I feel like the only place you can go after the Spice Girls is Beyoncé.”

So what are the girls mad about? Violence against girls (which kills a girl every 5 minutes), child marriage (1 in 4 girls is affected), trafficking (71 percent of victims are female), female genital mutilation (63 million girls have undergone it), access to education (130 million girls are out of school), and HIV/AIDS (girls are twice as likely to be infected). For starters.

The Global Goals can create a world free of all of that injustice by 2030. But the only way to get there is by pressuring world leaders into action, and inspiring individuals to make a difference in their own communities. “Hopefully, we can use the Global Goals to define this spirit of defiance and optimism and demanding that we all feel,” Delaney says. “Every single person in the world has the ability to change something.”

To take action, share the film with what #FreedomForGirls means to you. You can also visit the Global Goals website for more information on groups that are working toward gender equality around the world.



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