The article was first published on the public account: star storage tank, welcome to pay attention~
In 2017, Beyonce, who was supposed to attend the Coachella Music Festival, interrupted the performance because of an unexpected pregnancy. What's more surprising is that this time I was pregnant with twins. Beyonce went through a painful pregnancy and childbirth process, and also suffered from pregnancy toxemia, hypertension and pre-eclampsia after delivery. The whole process was not only painful, but she was as high as 99 kilograms on the day of delivery, and her postpartum figure was seriously out of shape.
But soon Beyonce began to perform on stage for the first postpartum. This time, it is to prepare for the revival of the Coachella Music Festival in 2018. Beyonce continued to use strict diet to shape his body, take care of the children and perform high-intensity rehearsals and exercises to break the problem of physical weakness and physical incompatibility after pregnancy. At the same time, he personally participated in the planning and detail polishing of the entire concert.
In the end, it became a perfect performance for the diva class at the Coachella Music Festival in 2018. And all these processes were filmed by Netflix into a 2 hours and 17 minute concert documentary "Homecoming: A Film by Beyonce", and the concert live album "Homecoming: The Live Album" was also launched immediately.
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is one of the world's most prestigious and most powerful music festivals. It is held annually in the Indio Desert of California, USA, for three days.
Since the first Coachella Music Festival was held in 1999, the artists or bands that have participated in the performance include Red Hot Chili Peppers, Coldplay, Pink Floyd, Leonard Cohen, Paul McCartney and other heavyweight guests. The leading guests of Coachella Music Festival in 2018 are Eminem, The Weeknd, and Beyonce.
The theme of Beyonce's performance at the Coachella Music Festival is "Homecoming". There are roughly two meanings about Homecoming, one is the return to stage career, and the other refers to the homecoming festival of American universities.
Every year on the homecoming festival of American universities, the previous students will prepare a variety of performances back to their alma mater to celebrate. And the artistic style of the Beyonce concert is to pay tribute to the HBCU (Historically Black Collegesand Universities) traditional black college back-to-school concept for packaging design.
As the first black woman to board the Coachella Music Festival, Beyonce used the hashtag #Beychella (Beyonce+Coachella) on social media before the promotion of the performance, occupying the hot search on Twitter at the same time.
Regarding Beychella's slogan, Beyonce said it was an encouragement to the self-reliance of black American women. In the United States, the group of black women who have difficulty gaining more respect should show their intelligence and power to the world and encourage black women to pursue their due dreams and values. The theme of black women's self-improvement has been throughout the concert and documentaries.
At the beginning of the concert, Beyonce made a strong appearance in a cool jersey of the African chieftain customized by Balmain. Although it did not match the school style, it hadn't been on the stage for a long time, and the queen's aura would never be defeated. The main stage of the whole concert adopts the form of a pyramid structure, and all the orchestras, harmony and dance are gathered in the pyramid tower area for performances.
The documentary editing method uses two different costume theme images seamlessly mixed together, with the hand-held camera image quality, DV image quality, black and white image quality, and normal digital image quality switching back and forth, bringing more to the concert documentary. More narrative.
In the performance, there is not much uniformity, and the orchestra on the pyramid stage will also dance to the rhythm of the dance at the same time. And every dancer has a different figure, characteristic, and personality. Among them, there are many dancers with big belly and elephant legs. They will not be like the Japanese and Korean girl groups, with a unified body, a unified expression, and a unified face.
Regarding the selection of performers, Beyonce believes: I want characters with different characteristics to appear on the stage, and I don't want everyone to sacrifice individuality to achieve stage effects. I hope that all those who are rejected because of their looks can prove themselves on this stage and conquer the audience.
The whole stage is free, but full of rhythm. In the highly intensive stage performances, the queen can sing and dance without a trace of breath, and her strong physical and performance qualities have perfectly conquered everyone.
The concert debuted at Jay-Z, and the Carter couple sang "Deja Vu" together and reached a climax. In Beyonce’s past concerts, husband Jay-Z did not have much opportunity to perform this famous song with his wife.
In addition, Beyonce's younger sister Solange also danced on the same stage with her sister in this concert.
And the most shining moment was Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams's support performance at the end, leaving the most legendary R&B girl group Destiny's Child once again with a historic moment.
At the age of 17, Beyonce formed the girl group Destiny's Child with Kelly Rowland and two other members in 1998. It was not until Michelle Williams succeeded the other two members in 2000 that Destiny's Child was formed.
The theme of the entire concert revolved around the campus. Beyonce, who became famous as a young man, has been regretting that he has not been able to join the traditional black university at the right age. However, in the documentary, Beyonce said: My university is Destiny's Child, and my university experience is to follow a girl. The group travels to the world to tour, and my entire acting career has been my mentor. Although there are regrets, this concert can be regarded as a tribute to Beyonce's pursuit of past dreams.
Just as the documentary quoted Marian Wright Edelman, a black female social activist: You can't be what you can't see.
The article was first published on the public account: Star Storage Tank
Welcome to follow
View more about Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé reviews
