Beyoncé – The Formation World Tour Part 2

Ok, I’m not gonna say much, because this was the same show as Amsterdam, except for the addition of “Beautiful ones” as a tribute to Prince. BUT I really need to say something regarding the organization! While it was excellent in Amsterdam, it was horrible in Frankfurt! And I won’t go into any details, because there were a lot of things that were annoying, but I have to say this: I will never go and see a show in the Commerzbank Arena again if I can avoid it! We had tickets for Golden Circle 2 and as security was too lazy to arrange the different entries to the arena grounds correctly, we were expected to run three-fourths around the whole arena once they let us onto the grounds, because our entrance into the arena was on the other side. Why they didn’t send us the other way around or let us in through the general standing area is beyond me. But as if that hadn’t already been enough, there were no signs to guide us to our entrance and security was completely clueless and sent us and other people in all kinds of directions. We ended up running two complete rounds around this f-ing stadium, about 2,5 kilometers, because it turned out, you had to run away from the arena to get to the entrance – no chance to find this entrance without knowing the grounds, proper help or signs – and none of the above were available to us! Luckily other people had the same problems so we ended up in an ok place, but not at all where we should have ended up!

I said that a million times, but I’ll say it again: I don’t get why local organizers and security don’t understand or care why you are there early. Is it that difficult to understand that you want to get in first, be at the front? No, it’s not just for fun to wait in front of some venue for hours and hours! Dear security, believe it or not, there is an intention behind that. And if you guys don’t bother giving us the chance to get to the place we deserve, it’s as if you stole hours from our lifetime because we waited in vain, and you stole a part of the joy of a concert experience!  Don’t you realize that phrases like: “Stay calm, everyone is getting in!” are extremely stupid and rude? All I’m asking is that you do your job properly and not just use your position to act way cool and talk down to people!

That being said… Thank you, Beyoncé, for another awesome show that let us almost forget our anger! You’re such an inspiration!

Beyoncé – The Formation Tour

She slayed

Full Stop

I guess, if you sell out Amsterdam Arena with a capacity of about 50.000 in just 20 minutes, it means you made it!

If you make people queue for you that early that if people arrives at 11 o’clock in the morning, there are about a hundred people in front of them at their entry alone…;

If people pay 600€ to be as close to you as possible during a concert…;

If you can make people organize through social media to bring yellow and black balloons to your show and blow them up to wave for a specific song…;

If people from non-English-speaking countries know the lyrics to your oftentimes quite complicated, slangy, fast songs word by word…;

– …it means you have the kind of fans that won’t abandon you anytime soon. Bey has all that!

And she deserves it because she’s working really hard and imho she’s one of the most creative artists around these days. Her new album “Lemonade” and the accompanying film are innovative, artistically valuable, interpretative challenging, musically versatile and thought-provoking.

Although the show is less grave and difficult to access, Beyoncé continues to innovate – at least I haven’t seen any water on stage yet: For “Freedom” the whole B-stage was turned into a wadable pool where Beyoncé and her dancers perform their choreography. Visually stunning!

But as always she excels at the good old entertainment-ABC as well. Her vocals on songs like “Me, myself and I” or “1+1” are flawless and her dancing skills seem to enhance with each tour. I could stand there and listen to her and watch her for hours!

Her last song is “Halo“, which this time she dedicates to the victims of the attempted coup in Turkey. And after having wondered, as usual, why we did this while waiting for so many hours, we are so happy that we’ll do this again in Frankfurt in two weeks! See you soon, Queen Bey!