Beyoncé is once again rewriting the rules of pop spectacle.
Her new tour, Cowboy Carter and the Rodeo Chitlin’ Circuit, launches April 28 at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium and will travel to 32 cities across North America and Europe. The two-night stop at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey — slated for July 27 and 28 — marks one of the tour’s biggest U.S. engagements.
The tour follows the release of Cowboy Carter, her genre-bending eighth studio album, which dropped March 29. Drawing deeply from American folklore and cultural memory, the album confronts the myths, fractures and legacies of U.S. identity — starting with the opening track, Ameriican Requiem, where Beyoncé interrogates what it means to belong in a country still struggling to define itself.
Don’t expect a straightforward country concert. While the lead single Texas Hold ’Em gave a nod to familiar Southern motifs, the project quickly unravels any conventional boundaries. Cowboy Carter fuses country, gospel, psychedelic funk and R&B into a sound that’s raw, restless and defiantly unclassifiable.
If Renaissance turned the dance floor into a site of liberation, Cowboy Carter heads straight for the heartland, raising questions about inclusion, erasure, and who gets to claim the American narrative.
On stage, Beyoncé isn’t seeking validation. She’s not leaning on nostalgia or waving protest signs. Instead, she’s offering a reframed vision of the American experience — told from a voice long sidelined by history, and now impossible to ignore.
