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Beyoncé Set to Perform ‘Cowboy Carter’ Songs for First Time Halftime of NFL Christmas Day Game

November 18, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Beyoncé will headline Netflix’s inaugural NFL Christmas Gameday this Christmas with a special live performance during the second of the platform’s two marquee games. The Houston Texans will host the Baltimore Ravens at NRG Stadium at 4:30 PM ET on December 25, setting the stage for a hometown performance by the global icon.

The event, produced by Parkwood Entertainment and Jesse Collins Entertainment, will feature the first live renditions of songs from Beyoncé’s groundbreaking and record-breaking album, COWBOY CARTER. Recently earning 11 Grammy nominations, the album is now the most-nominated project by a female artist in Grammy history.

Trailer for Beyoncé’s NFL Halftime Show at the Ravens vs Texans game on Christmas Day. pic.twitter.com/RRdo0N10m6

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Beyoncé’s NFL appearances are already legendary, including her 2013 Super Bowl XLVII halftime show, where she reunited with Destiny’s Child in a performance that became the second-most-watched halftime show of its time. She returned in 2016 for Super Bowl 50, joining Coldplay and Bruno Mars in a show watched by 115.5 million viewers.

The Netflix Christmas Gameday begins a new holiday tradition, with the streaming platform announcing NFL games for 2025 and 2026. The first game will feature the Kansas City Chiefs facing the Pittsburgh Steelers at 1 PM ET, followed by the Texans-Ravens matchup.

While details of Beyoncé’s performance remain secret, fans can expect appearances from special guests featured on COWBOY CARTER. The event will be available to stream globally on Netflix, while local broadcasts and NFL+ will carry the games in the competing team cities.

With Netflix, the NFL, and Beyoncé joining forces, this Christmas promises an unforgettable blend of sports and entertainment.

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Beyonce Breaks Her Own Record With 2025 Grammy Nominations

November 8, 2024 by newhiphopnews

It’s already been a huge year for Beyonce. The hitmaker unleashed her eighth studio album in March, COWBOY CARTER, just a few months after closing her record-breaking “Renaissance” tour. She also launched her own whiskey brand, SirDavis, which has already been a massive success. Now, she’s set a new record with her 2025 Grammy nominations.

According to Billboard, she’s in the running for 11 awards, the most ever in a year for a woman artist. She beat her own record, 10, which she previously shared with Lauryn Hill. Hill received 10 nods at the 1999 Grammys ceremony, and Beyonce at the 2010 ceremony. She’s competing for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Pop Solo Performance, and more.

Beyonce Nominated For 11 Grammys

Beyonce Breaks Her Own Record With 2025 Grammy Nominations — Beyonc√© accepts the award for best dance/electronic music album for Renaissance, becoming the all-time winner for the most Grammy Awards during the 65th Annual Grammy Awards at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. Robert Hanashiro / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Other nominees include Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, Billie Eilish, and more. News of Beyonce’s nominations arrives amid claims that she was snubbed at both the People’s Choice Country Awards and the Country Music Awards. She wasn’t nominated in a single category at the CMAs despite the success of COWBOY CARTER. She also left the PCCAs empty-handed despite being nominated for a whopping 17 awards.

Veteran of the genre Dolly Parton even weighed in on the snubs during an interview with Variety earlier this year. “There’s so many wonderful country artists that, I guess probably the country music field, they probably thought, well, we can’t really leave out some of the ones that spend their whole life doing that,” she said in part. What do you think of setting a new record for most Grammy nominations as a solo woman artist in one year? Share your thoughts in the comments section down below and keep an eye on HNHH for more updates.

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Beyoncé Goes Full Pamela Anderson (Slow-Motion Run And All) In Her Surprise New ‘Beywatch’ Video

November 5, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Beyoncé went all out for Halloween this year, taking to social media to show off multiple costumes. One post saw her modeling a Betty Davis look, and another saw her as topless Prince. Now, a few days into November, Beyoncé has finally concluded her Halloween decorations.

She just shared a slew of Pamela Anderson-inspired looks in a new video titled “Beywatch.” Sure enough, it sees Beyoncé modeling the classic Baywatch swimsuit, as well as her Barb Wire character and her look from the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards. The video is set to the Cowboy Carter song “Bodyguard.”

In a follow-up post, Beyoncé wrote, “BEYLLOWEEN FIN,” indicating that Bey has finished her run of 2024 costumes.

This comes after Beyoncé explained why she didn’t release any music videos for Renaissance or Cowboy Carter, saying, “I thought it was important that during a time where all we see is visuals, that the world can focus on the voice. The music is so rich in history and instrumentation. It takes months to digest, research, and understand. The music needed space to breathe on its own. […] Sometimes a visual can be a distraction from the quality of the voice and the music. The years of hard work and detail put into an album that takes over four years! The music is enough. The fans from all over the world became the visual. We all got the visual on tour. We then got more visuals from my film.”

So, this may ultimately be the closest thing we get to a Cowboy Carter video.

Check out the “Beywatch” video above.

Beyonce Shaded By Fox News Analyst After Speaking At Kamala Harris Rally

October 29, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Beyonce does make many public appearances, but she made an exception last week. The musical icon took the stage at a campaign rally in Houston, Texas, and endorsed Kamala Harris for president. She did not perform any music, but she did make it clear that she sides with Harris on key issues. The Bey Hive ate it up, and those who didn’t agree with Beyonce derided her decision. Nobody expected Beyonce to become a major talking point on Fox News, however. The singer was not only referenced, but mocked due to her political affiliation.

Internet personality Xaviaer Durousseau appeared on the news network to condemn Beyonce. He not only claimed that the Harris team is “desperate” to secure celebrity endorsements, but is going after said endorsements from celebrities past their prime. She knows that she doesn’t have any substance herself,” Durousseau alleges, when analyzing the reliance on others. The internet personality then went after Beyonce. “Beyonce doesn’t need to be doing that,” he opined. “[She] needs to focus on keeping her album on the charts because it’s already gone.”

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Beyonce took the stage at the Harris rally to tell prospective voters that she was not there as a celebrity. Rather, she was there to speak to them as a mother and a human being. “I’m a mother who cares deeply about the world my children and all of our children live in,” she explained. “A world where we have the freedom to control our bodies, a world where we’re not divided.” Beyonce stated that Kamala Harris is the person she believes can ensure these freedoms stay intact. “We must vote, and we need you,” she added.

The album Xaviaer Durousseau referenced, Cowboy Carter, has been a particularly controversial one. The album saw Beyonce venture into country music, which received pushback from many of the fans and artists in the genre. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, and sold 407K units in its first week. This is the most for a Queen Bey release since Lemonade in 2016. Cowboy Carter was also the first Beyonce album to hold the top Billboard spot for multiple weeks since 2013. It may no longer be on the charts, but it certainly didn’t flop.

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After Speaking On Beyoncé And Country Music, Luke Bryan Responds To ‘Ridiculous’ ‘Clickbait Headlines’

October 7, 2024 by newhiphopnews

On SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live recently, country star Luke Bryan spoke about Beyoncé, specifically about how she didn’t get any 2024 CMA Awards nominations for her album Cowboy Carter. Some people didn’t care for what he said, to the point that Bryan has come out with a follow-up statement.

In a post shared on X (formerly Twitter) last night (October 6), Bryan wrote:

“Hey yall, I’m wrapping up the last night of my tour tonight and it’s been an amazing time. For that I am thankful.

I am posting tonight based on the ridiculous nature of the headlines I have read the last couple days from an interview on the Andy Cohen show I did this week when I was promoting my album. I feel in my heart I could not let media create a false narrative. As I read thru the comments of some of you I just want to say that I encourage all of you to listen to the interview instead of reading click bait headlines. You will hear my tone and intentions which were not negative. I respect Beyonce and I love how loyal her fans are. I spend a lot of time supporting other artists. I want everyone to win. Love yall.”

As for what Bryan actually said, he said in part, “Everybody loved that Beyoncé made a country album. Nobody’s mad about it, but where things get a little tricky — you know, if you’re gonna make country albums, come into our world and be country with us a little bit. Like, Beyoncé can do exactly what she wants to. She’s probably the biggest star in music. But come to an awards show and high-five us and have fun and get in the family, too. And I’m not saying she didn’t do that. I didn’t know. I had never seen [her]. But country music is a lot about family.”

Luke Bryan Had An Unpopular Opinion About Beyoncé’s CMA Awards Shutout: ‘Come Into Our World And Be Country With Us’

October 3, 2024 by newhiphopnews

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Last month, Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter earned zero nominations for the 2024 CMA Awards. The snub was suspicious (to put it lightly) because Cowboy Carter is undeniably a country album. Not to mention, the 27-song LP debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and Billboard‘s Top Country Albums chart simultaneously.

The 2024 CMA Awards will go on without Beyoncé on November 20, and Luke Bryan will co-host alongside Lainey Wilson and Peyton Manning. Bryan commented on Beyoncé’s shutout while appearing on SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live.

“It’s a tricky question because, obviously, Beyoncé made a country album, and Beyoncé has a lot of fans out there that have her back,” Bryan told Cohen. “If she doesn’t get something they want, man, they come at you — as fans should do.”

The American Idol judge continued, “It’s a tough thing to say — I don’t know how many albums did she sell? I know she had one song. So, I mean, listen, I’m all for everybody coming in and making country albums and all that. But just because she made one — just ’cause I make one, I don’t get any nominations. A lot of great music is overlooked. Sometimes, you don’t get nominated.”

Bryan saved the most controversial sentiment for last: “Everybody loved that Beyoncé made a country album. Nobody’s mad about it, but where things get a little tricky — you know, if you’re gonna make country albums, come into our world and be country with us a little bit. Like, Beyoncé can do exactly what she wants to. She’s probably the biggest star in music. But come to an awards show and high-five us and have fun and get in the family, too. And I’m not saying she didn’t do that. I didn’t know. I had never seen [her]. But country music is a lot about family.”

Upon announcing Cowboy Carter in March, Beyoncé made it pretty clear that she had never felt welcome to “come to an awards show” or “get in the family,” in the words of Bryan. Beyoncé seemed to reference an unpleasant experience she had while performing “Daddy Lessons” with The Chicks at the 2016 CMA Awards.

“This album has been over five years in the making,” Beyoncé wrote, in part, in her caption of the Cowboy Carter album cover artwork. “It was born out of an experience that I had years ago where I did not feel welcomed…and it was very clear that I wasn’t. But, because of that experience, I did a deeper dive into the history of Country music and studied our rich musical archive. It feels good to see how music can unite so many people around the world, while also amplifying the voices of some of the people who have dedicated so much of their lives educating on our musical history.”

Appropriately, people on X (formerly Twitter) have reacted to Bryan’s take by pointing out that Beyoncé is inherently country, given that she is from Texas and the genre was build on Black musicians’ backs.

As a relevant aside, The Hollywood Reporter exclusively reported Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter “will compete for Best Country Album” at the 2025 Grammys.

“If Beyoncé — the most decorated artist in Grammy history — earns a best country album nod, it would be her first in the genre and she would become the rare artist who has scored nominations across multiple genres at the Grammys,” THR relayed.

Beyoncé’s Fans Are Swarming After The Singer Was ‘Snubbed’ At The 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards

September 28, 2024 by newhiphopnews

The BeyHive are swarming to find out who’s in charge of the People’s Choice Country Awards. After Beyoncé’s latest album Cowboy Carter didn’t earn any nominations at the CMA Awards, the “16 Carriages” singer’s fans have been on high alert.

Dolly Parton may not consider the act to be a blatant dismissive of her record-recording release, but supporters feel otherwise. To add fuel to the Texas hot flame, Beyoncé didn’t take home any wins following the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards despite receiving the second-highest amount of nominations (17 total) including Social Country Star, Album, Song, two for Female Song, Collaboration Song, two for Cover Song, Crossover Song, Storyteller Song, Female Artist, and People’s Artist.

Following the blowout loss, fans took to X (formerly Twitter) to slam the award show.

“They definitely were hating on her,” remarked one user.

“Not 1, but all 12 of her nominations? Oh yeah, I’m tearing some sh*t up today,” chimed another.

“The People’s Choice my f*cking ass,” penned another.

“How do you lose despite getting the most votes,” questioned another.

“So the People’s Choice Country Awards uses an electoral college,” asked one user.

Others began to predict that this could be a trend going into next year’s award season.

“This might be her first era without winning awards ,” wrote one user.

Beyoncé hasn’t publicly addressed the matter.

Beyonce Leaves People’s Choice Country Awards Empty-Handed Despite 17 Nominations

September 27, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Despite the tremendous success of her latest album Cowboy Carter, Beyonce has walked away from yet another country music awards ceremony empty-handed. The “Texas Hold ‘Em” performer was nominated for an impressive 17 People’s Choice Country Awards this year. Sadly, she lost in all categories, including People’s Artist, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Female Artist, and more.

Of course, Bey’s fanbase believes she’s been snubbed, as she was only recognized briefly thanks to Shaboozey. He won Best New Artist and gave her a quick shoutout at the end of his acceptance speech. “Thank you Beyonce, you’re amazing,” he concluded before making his exit.

Shaboozey Gives Beyonce A Shoutout At People’s Choice Country Awards

This isn’t the only time the hive has been outraged about their queen’s country album getting overlooked, however. She wasn’t nominated for a single Country Music Award either, which sparked a great deal of backlash. Dolly Parton even chimes in on the snub during her interview with Variety this month, providing her best guess as to why Beyonce wasn’t given the recognition her supporters believe she deserves.

“There’s so many wonderful country artists that, I guess probably the country music field, they probably thought, well, we can’t really leave out some of the ones that spend their whole life doing that,” she told the outlet before praising both Beyonce and her album Cowboy Carter. “I don’t think it was a matter of shutting out, like doing that on purpose. I think it was just more of what the country charts and the country artists were doing, that do that all the time, not just a specialty album.” What do you think of Beyonce leaving yet another country music awards show without an award? Are you surprised? Do you think she was snubbed or not? Share your thoughts in the comments section down below and keep an eye on HNHH for more updates.

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Beyoncé And Levi’s Are Cooking Something Up, The Denim Icons Tease

September 23, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Among the highlights on Beyoncé’s hit album Cowboy Carter is the Post Malone collaboration “Levii’s Jeans.” Not long after the track’s release, denim company Levi’s had a significant stock jump, so much so that Levi Strauss CEO Michelle Gass said the following: “I would just say that denim is having a moment and the Levi’s brand is having a powerful moment around the world. One of the things that really is significant about the Levi’s brand and we place a lot of emphasis and investment is making sure that Levi’s brand remains in the center of culture. And I don’t think there’s any better evidence or proof point than having someone like Beyoncé, who is a culture shaper, to actually name a song after us.”

Well, it appears Gass figured it wouldn’t be a bad idea to formally get into the Beyoncé business.

On Instagram today (September 23), Levi’s shared an illustration of Beyoncé riding a horse in silhouette. (They tagged Beyoncé in the post, so that’s how we know for sure it’s her.) The post is captioned, “INTRODUCING: A New Chapter.” Furthermore, the Levi’s Instagram now features a highlight titled “Levii’s.”

It’s not currently clear what’s going on here, as the aforementioned is so far all the publicly available information about the situation.