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04-17-2019, 04:51 PM
Homecoming (stylized as HΘMΣCΘMING; subtitled: "A Film by Beyonc�") is a film about American singer Beyonc� and her performance at the 2018 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. It premiered on Netflix on April 17, 2019.
Notes on the Film
On January 4, 2017, Beyonc� was announced as a headlining act for the April 2017 Coachella festival. However, on February 23, 2017, she postponed her performance until the following year, due to doctor's concerns regarding her pregnancy with twins (born in June 2017).
Playing her rescheduled dates in 2018, Beyonc� became the first black woman ever to headline the festival. In its nearly twenty years of existence, the festival has only had two other women solo headliners, Lady Gaga (who replaced Beyonc� in 2017) and Bj�rk (2002 and 2007). Even prior to Beyonc�'s performance, the nickname "Beychella" emerged for the 2018 festival. Tina Knowles-Lawson, mother of Beyonc� and Solange Knowles, later said that prior to the show, she had expressed reservations about the performance Beyonc� had planned, worried that the largely white audience at Coachella “might not get” a show so steeped in black culture, particularly black college culture. Knowles-Lawson recounted that Beyonc� replied saying that given the platform she had achieved in her career, she felt “a responsibility to do what's best for the world and not what is most popular.”
For her April 14, 2018, performance, some 100 dancers as well as her sister Solange, her husband Jay-Z, and her former girl group Destiny's Child joined Beyonc� on stage. She played a 26-song set to 125,000 concert-goers in attendance including Bajan singer Rihanna as well as millions watching via the live-stream on YouTube and subsequent playback. The set sampled Malcolm X and Nina Simone among others. Beyonc� wore five different costumes through the two-hour performance, designed with Olivier Rousteing of French fashion house Balmain.
Writing in The New Yorker, Doreen St. F�lix described the musical style of the performance as an "education in black expression [... and] musical history – a m�lange of New Orleans and its horns, Houston and its chopped and screwed beats, Brooklyn and its rap velocity, Kingston and its dancehall, and Nigeria and the legacy of its dissenter, Fela Kuti [...] underscoring not only Southernness but the global black vernacular that continues to shape her." Near the beginning of the set, Beyonc� sang "Lift Every Voice and Sing," colloquially known as the "black national anthem". The Wiz, one of Motown's most notable motion pictures, was also sampled in the horn arrangement that heralded Beyonce's return to the stage after her first costume change.
The performance has been credited as paying a strong tribute to the HBCU experience. A full marching band played during much of the set, accompanied by majorette dancers. Writing for Mic.com, Nateleg� Whaley stated that the band consisted of members from various HBCUs and played samples of songs that are often played at an HBCU such as "Swag Surf", Broccoli (song), and "Back That Thang Up", along with samples of gospel and go-go music. Journalists also noted that the set incorporated various aspects of black Greek life, such as a step show along with strolling by probates (pledges). School Daze, a notable Spike Lee film is also referenced. Beyonc�'s first outfit was a yellow sweatshirt with the Greek letters ΒΔΚ which reads Beta Delta Kappa. Later, she came out in a shirt with a shield designed with Nefertiti, Black Panther, black power fist along with a bee, which outlets such as the Washington Post credited as a reference to the shields each black fraternity and sorority have signifying the important values of the particular fraternity and sorority.
The performance received broad and overwhelming critical acclaim. In The New York Times, music critic Jon Caramanica wrote: "There's not likely to be a more meaningful, absorbing, forceful and radical performance by an American musician this year, or any year soon, than Beyonc�’s headlining set" at the festival. "It was rich with history, potently political and visually grand. By turns uproarious, rowdy, and lush. A gobsmacking marvel of choreography and musical direction." In Variety, Chris Willman wrote, "The show served as testament...to Beyonc� as the premier musical performer of our time." The Washington Post, CNN, NBC, Entertainment Weekly, and Billboard all described the performance as "historic".
So I present:
HOMECOMING: THE LIVE ALBUM
Welcome
Crazy in Live
Freedom
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Formation
So Much Damn Swag (Interlude)
Sorry
Kitty Kat
Bow Down
I Been On
Drunk in Love
Diva
Flawless / Feeling Myself
Top Off
7/11
Bug A Boo Roll Call (Interlude)
Party
Don’t Hurt Yourself
I Care
Partition
Yonce
Mi Gente (feat. J. Balvin)
Baby Boy
You Don’t Love Me (No, No, No)
Hold Up
Countdown
Check On It
Deja Vu (feat. Jay-Z)
The Bzzzz Drumline (Interlude)
Run the World (Girls)
Lose My Breath
Say My Name
Soldier
Get Me Bodied
Single Ladies
Lift Every Voice and Sing – Blue’s Version
Love on Top
Shining (Thank You)
Before I Let Go [Bonus Track]
I Been On [Bonus Track]
DIGITAL BOOKLET - HOMECOMING: THE LIVE ALBUM
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