Beyoncé turns NFL Christmas Halftime Show into ‘Cowboy Carter’ party

Hope your Santa hat was mounted, as a result of Beyoncé gave us the last word “Cowboy Carter” reward this Christmas.

The celebrity unfold vacation cheer throughout Wednesday’s Halftime Present on the Christmas Day Texans-Ravens NFL recreation in her hometown of Houston, Texas, marking the primary time Beyoncé carried out songs from her hit 2024 album “Cowboy Carter” in entrance of a reside viewers.

Beyoncé started her iconic efficiency on horseback, actually using in whereas singing “16 Carriages.” After dismounting with traditional automobiles organized within the background, she started her her cowl of The Beatles’ traditional hit “Blackbird,” accompanied by nation singers Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, Tiera Kennedy and Reyna Roberts, who she collaborated on the track with.

Publish Malone made a shock cameo to carry out their collaboration “Levii’s Denims,” following Bey’s duet with nation singer Shaboozey.

Backed by a full marching band, Beyoncé additionally carried out “Ya Ya” and was joined on the sector by her daughter Blue Ivy, who danced subsequent to her mom throughout the track “Texas Maintain ‘Em.”

“Merry Christmas, god bless y’all,” Beyoncé mentioned on the finish of the set, as she was raised excessive above the sector on a white platform.

Beyoncé performs throughout halftime of an NFL soccer recreation between the Houston Texans and the Baltimore Ravens, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024, in Houston. (AP Picture/David J. Phillip)

Beyoncé is not any newcomer to main NFL-related occasions. The Grammy-winner headlined the 2013 Tremendous Bowl in New Orleans and joined Coldplay and Bruno Mars on the sector throughout the 2016 Tremendous Bowl present.

She additionally used an advert spot that aired throughout the 2024 Tremendous Bowl to announce “Cowboy Carter,” the extremely anticipated “Act II” comply with as much as her 2023 album “Renaissance.”

“Cowboy Carter” was launched in March and has gone on to earn 11 Grammy nods.

Queen Bey teased this week’s efficiency on Tuesday with a cheeky video of herself stopping a rolling soccer together with her sky-high heels whereas finger-picking a banjo alongside to her in style track “Texas Maintain ‘Em.”

Beyoncé performs throughout halftime of an NFL soccer recreation between the Houston Texans and the Baltimore Ravens, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024, in Houston. (AP Picture/David J. Phillip)

The video is made to seem as if it’s buffering at one level – with a pink spinning circle on Beyoncé’s nostril – poking enjoyable at Netflix’s earlier lagging livestream points that many known as consideration to throughout the barely glitchy livestream of the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul struggle. After the fake ‘glitch,’ Beyoncé is heard guffawing and winks to the digicam.

A consultant for Netflix beforehand informed CNN that they made extra optimizations of their methods to enhance the viewing high quality and higher deal with the large-scale viewership that they anticipate the Christmas Day NFL video games to attract.

Netflix was the streaming host of each the Chiefs-Steelers recreation – which was performed earlier within the day – and the Texans-Ravens recreation on Christmas Day.

Mariah Carey, the so-called Queen of Christmas herself, additionally made a splashy look throughout Netflix’s Christmas Day NFL video games when she appeared in a pre-recorded video of her traditional Christmas hit “All I Need For Christmas is You,” which was streamed forward of each video games.

Carey’s efficiency marked the track’s thirtieth anniversary and showcased the Grammy-winning singer acting on a rooftop in Los Angeles. Carey was surrounded by dancers and kids in Christmas-themed costumes and sang amid a pretend snowfall.