She’s “Flawless.”
Beyoncé kicked off her Renaissance World Tour in Stockholm, Sweden, on Wednesday, and it appeared to be a show stuffed with memorable moments and elaborate art selections.
The tour is in support of her chart-topping 2022 album “Renaissance.”
The Grammy-winning singer paid tribute to Britney Spears at one point in the course of the concert, sampling the pop star’s 2003 hit “Toxic” during her own performance of the “Renaissance” song “THIQUE.”
In a clip posted on Twitter, Queen Bey is seen onstage in a rhinestone-encrusted, sheer mesh custom Loewe bodysuit entwined with hands and arms; she moves her body alongside two dancers as they perform to a mashup of the stringed notes from “Toxic” blended into Beyoncé’s own song.
Previously, the singer has worked with Spears, who has an explosive TV special coming up about her life post-conservatorship.
In 2004, they sang Queen’s “We Will Rock You” together in a industrial for Pepsi alongside Pink, who also will launch an enormous world tour this summer.
Beyoncé and Spears were speculated to collaborate on a recent music video this yr, but things didn’t quite work out.
But that wasn’t the one highlight of Beyoncé’s show Wednesday night – on Twitter, other fans noticed the ending of the concert, where she was suspended from the ceiling and flew across the stadium.
Some compared it to a moment from the “SpongeBob SquarePants Movie,” during which the animated animal performed his own hit, “I’m a Goofy Goober” — even putting together side-by-side images of the 2 moments on the social media platform.
“Confirmed: Beyoncé is a SpongeBob fan,” one fan on Twitter joked with a comparison photo.
“Yall gon’ hate me but Beyoncé jogged my memory of spongebob while closing the show #RENAISSANCEtour,” one other person admitted.
Another person quipped, “beyonce paying homage to spongebob yes.”
Nevertheless, others weren’t fans of the comparison, with one fan writing, “Here come the rattling ‘Beyonce at the top of the Renaissance tour’ tweets with the image of SpongeBob.”
The theme of the tour definitely appeared to be futuristic, as she was joined by two robotic arms that “formed a metal cube round her body,” in accordance with Billboard, and imitated her every movement.
She had multiple outfit changes throughout the night, too – wearing a custom-made, metallic Alexander McQueen suit with daring shoulder pads to open the show, in addition to a silver metallic bodysuit and sky-high, knee-high boots afterward within the concert.
The setlist for the three-hour show featured a complete of 36 songs – mixing her classic hits like “Crazy In Love” and “Run the World (Girls)” with newer songs like “America Has a Problem” and “Pure/Honey.”
She also performed a canopy of Mary J. Blige’s 1994 jam “I’m Goin’ Down.”
Fans are thrilled together with her return, with some going so far as creating their very own versions of the cowgirl hat covered in disco ball pieces that she was seen wearing within the artwork for her tour announcement.
Overall, it looked like tonight’s concert was thoroughly enjoyed by fans, with one person on Twitter calling her “the most effective performer alive.”
“Queen of the transition!” one other user wrote. “She. Smooth. Killed. It. Girl got me in Sweden losing my rattling mind …. and my voice!!!!”
One Twitter user even joked, “Only Beyoncé would have us sitting at our places of labor, live streaming her concert prefer it’s a live television event. Her power > us being pathetic.”
The North American portion of her global tour will kick off on July 8 in Toronto, and she’s going to travel across the US for 29 stadium shows.
On July 29 and July 30, she’s going to come near Recent York City, touching down at East Rutherford’s MetLife Stadium for 2 major concert events.
