Sitting to Beyoncé’s left was Rumi, her seven-year-old daughter, tucked under her arm; behind her, Blue Ivy, her 13-year-old daughter, and in front of them, a crowd of 80,000. The MetLife Stadium in New Jersey was a sea of stetson hats and rhinestone handbags, shining silver chaps and American flags, mothers, daughters, teenagers and their friends.
Welcome to the Cowboy Carter and the Rodeo Chitlin’ Circuit Tour, Beyoncé’s three-hour, western yee-haw, a stadium-sized imagining of her ninth studio album, Cowboy Carter. Alongside the camp and the sequins and the flying Cadillac, the horseshoe swing and the chrome mechanical bull was, most noticeably, the singer’s growing family dynasty.
