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“This is making me wanna get assless chaps,” said the person next to me as Beyoncé sashayed onto stage in her fourth pair of the night (all variations of leather, tassled, and sparkly).

Taylor Swift may have nabbed the rights to the word, but Beyoncé is the true queen of eras. She was last at Tottenham Hotspur stadium exactly two years ago for her Renaissance tour, an ode to Black queer club culture which was all latex bodysuits and thumping dance anthems.

But the night club has become a honky tonk bar, and the Beyhive have switched out their cheap spandex for cowboy hats and denim cut-offs. The first night of Beyoncé’s six-date run at Spurs for the Cowboy Carter tour was an exercise in the singer’s ability to do whatever she wants, to an exceedingly high level.

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