Do you know what’s giving me all the energy I need right now? This video of Beyoncé not having it with a woman chatting up Jay-Z at a basketball game. Who needs coffee when you have Bey serving up some piping-hot shade, am I right?
OK, I’m mildly kidding. For all we know, Beyoncé isn’t being shady at all in this clip. Maybe the cameras just caught her in a moment when her face wasn’t “on.” Smiling all the time can be exhausting—even for superhuman deities like Queen B.
Let’s back up for a second and give some context: Beyoncé and Jay-Z attended Game Three of the NBA Finals in Oakland, California on Wednesday night (June 5) and were seated court-side, naturally. A woman, whose name we don’t know, sat to the left of Beyoncé, and at one point she leaned over her to have a discussion with Jay-Z. Bey’s face as this is happening seemingly transitions from all smiles to pure annoyance. That’s what fans on the Internet are positing, at least—but take a look at the video for yourself, below.
Whatever the case, the Twitter reactions to this moment are hilarious. “I would leave the Earth if Beyoncé looked this ready to smack me,” one fan posted, while another said, “Mood: Beyoncé dissociating at a basketball [game] while a white woman talks over her.”
Of course, there were some “Becky with the good hair” jokes. (Remember that moniker from Lemonade? It was used in the song “Sorry” to describe “the other woman” in a cheating narrative.) “This ‘Becky with the good hair’ bout to get her wig split,” one fan joked online. “Y’all Beckys really keep trying Beyoncé as if she doesn’t have a Cancer sister named Solange,” wrote someone else.
Check out more reactions to this moment for yourself, below:
