‘I ain’t no regular singer’, declares Beyoncé on Cowboy Carter, her critically acclaimed country-and-western album, released earlier this year. ‘Now come get everythin’ you came for.’
On Christmas Day, she will perform tracks from the album during halftime of the National Football League game between her hometown team, Houston Texans, and the Baltimore Ravens. It will be broadcast live on Netflix and available to the streaming service’s 280 million subscribers.
Those tuning in for Beyoncé’s half-time show will get a better deal than those fans who showed up to the Democrats’ rally in her native Texas in October, to watch her endorse Kamala Harris for the presidency. They got nothin’ of what they came for. They were short-changed by a brief speech in which Beyoncé (largely) mouthed the platitudes found on the lips of Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama throughout Harris’s campaign.
Beyoncé was far from the only superstar to throw her weight behi…