{"id":26498,"date":"2025-07-28T03:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T03:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26498\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T03:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T03:11:08","slug":"destinys-child-reunites-for-beyonces-final-cowboy-carter-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26498\/","title":{"rendered":"Destiny&#8217;s Child reunites for Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s final Cowboy Carter show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Destiny&#8217;s Child has reunited for the first time in seven years during the final show of Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s Cowboy Carter tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Queen B welcomed her former band mates Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams on stage in Las Vegas to perform a medley of the group&#8217;s biggest hits, including 2001 hit Bootylicious and 2004 anthem Hold My Breath.<\/p>\n<p>Loading Instagram content<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The two special guests \u2014 dripping in gold and introduced by Beyonc\u00e9 as &#8220;Destiny&#8217;s Child&#8217;s, b&#8212;!&#8221; \u2014 also helped to sing the hit Energy from the artist&#8217;s seventh studio album Renaissance (also referred to as Act II: Renaissance).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The performance marked the first time in seven years the chart-topping group has shared the stage together.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The last time they reunited was in 2018 during &#8220;Beychella&#8221;, when Beyonc\u00e9&#8217; <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2018-04-16\/beyonce-reunited-destinys-child-for-coachella\/9662144\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/9662144\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">made history as the first black woman to headline Coachella.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Fans were quick to flock to social media, dubbing the trio &#8220;the most legendary girl group of all time&#8221; and their performance &#8220;the perfect ending&#8221; to the tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Texas Hold &#8216;Em singer kicked off her highly anticipated Cowboy Carter tour in late April, taking her Grammy-winning album across stadiums in Europe and the US before closing out the historic tour in Las Vegas after 32 shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">She also welcomed her famous husband Jay-Z on stage to perform their 2003 song Crazy In Love and Shaboozey to perform their hit Sweet Honey Buckin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s finale would not be been complete without a special mention to her 13-year-old daughter Blue Ivy, who danced alongside her mother for nearly every song across the tour \u2014 winning over fans along the way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;What will be Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s Act III?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Renaissance was Act I. Cowboy Carter was Act II.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;What if Act 3 features EVERYONE she did music with?&#8221; one user wrote on Instagram, referring to the three-part musical project by Beyonce, dubbed the &#8220;Renaissance trilogy&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2024-03-20\/beyonce-country-music-cowboy-carter-new-album\/103610808\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beyonc\u00e9 hits back at critics<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Beyonc\u00e9 addresses criticism she has experienced since releasing several country-inspired singles as she gears up to release a new album.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It could happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s last two albums, the house-inspired Renaissance and country-Americana Cowboy Carter, were the first and second in a planned trilogy of albums the artist made famous for challenging genre conventions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The criticisms I faced when I first entered this genre forced me to propel past the limitations that were put on me,&#8221; she wrote upon the release of Cowboy Carter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Act II is a result of challenging myself, and taking my time to bend and blend genres together to create this body of work.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Fans are convinced the third instalment will follow the same pattern in reclaiming a new genre \u2014 but are yet to know what that genre could be.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Destiny&#8217;s Child has reunited for the first time in seven years during the final show of Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s Cowboy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25711,64,63,8661,25709,25710,25706,134,22026,25707,2623,25708,1562],"class_list":{"0":"post-26498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-act-iii","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-beyonce","12":"tag-blue-ivy","13":"tag-cowboy-carter","14":"tag-destinys-child","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-jay-z","17":"tag-kelly-rowland","18":"tag-las-vegas","19":"tag-michelle-williams","20":"tag-renaissance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}