Beyoncé Knowles-Carter dropped a surprise live album titled "Homecoming" Wednesday, coinciding with the release of her highly-anticipated Netflix documentary of the same name. The live album was recorded when she was the headliner of 2018's Coachella festival. Early Wednesday morning, the superstar tweeted a photo of the album's cover art with a link to her website and the words, "HOMECOMING out now." The post garnered over 56,000 retweets and more than 139,000 likes at press time."Homecoming: The Live Album" features 40 songs, including, "Crazy in Love" and "Formation," performed live at the festival. The star performed twice during the two-weekend music festival in California in 2018. She was originally slotted to take the stage in 2017, but had to delay the show when she became pregnant with twins. The nearly two-hour medley became available in the early morning on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes and Tidal, reports Entertainment Tonight.The editor's note on the album's Apple … [Read more...] about Beyoncé releases surprise live album the same day as her Netflix documentary drops
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Homecoming, Netflix, review: Beyoncé’s Coachella concert film is a transcendent musical triumph
5 Since the release of her earth-shaking 2016 album Lemonade, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has become such an enigma –with her inscrutable Instagram feed, and non-existent press access – that it’s enough to leave you awestruck just to hear her voice again. Homecoming, her new concert film for Netflix that revisits her acclaimed headline set at last year’s Coachella Music Festival, is a transcendent musical triumph, but it’s her speaking voice that is the film’s secret weapon. Heard narrating the film’s 15-or-so minutes of behind-the-scenes footage exploring the build-up to the event, it’s likely huskier than you remember, warmer, with less of the hesitant, nervous stickiness that once betrayed her lower-middle-class... Register for free to read this article, or log in to your Telegraph account Register Log in … [Read more...] about Homecoming, Netflix, review: Beyoncé’s Coachella concert film is a transcendent musical triumph
Fans are going crazy for Beyonce’s new Netflix Documentary
Beyoncé's documentary hit Netflix screens this morning, and fans are loving it. The two hour long film, titled Homecoming, gives viewers a part concert movie, part behind-the-scenes look into Bey's historic 2018 Coachella performance, where she became the first black woman to ever headline the festival. Her performance last year left audiences around the world talking for weeks, with some renaming the popular festival Bey-Chella. The documentary synopsis reads: "Shot over eight months, the film follows the global entertainer as she returns to the stage after the birth of her twins, highlighting the comprehensive preparation involved in creating her ground-breaking performance" The film also offers a rare glimpse into Beyoncé's family life with husband Jay-Z, their daughter Blue Ivy, and twins Rumi and Sir who turned two in June. Blue Ivy makes several appearances in the documentary, from cutting some shapes to getting excited and singing to people. Beyoncé's culture, … [Read more...] about Fans are going crazy for Beyonce’s new Netflix Documentary
Netflix accused of hypocrisy after it says use of phrase ‘chick flick’ is sexist… but no one told their algorithms
Netflix has been accused of hypocrisy after saying that the phrase "chick flicks" is sexist, but letting people search for the category on its website. The Netflix Film Twitter account chided those who label romantic films as such, and that it should only be used to describe films that involve chickens. The series of tweets read: "Can we stop calling films “chick flicks” unless the films are literally about small baby chickens? Here’s why this phrase should absolutely be retired. "For starters, 'chick flicks' are traditionally synonymous with romantic comedies. This suggests that women are the only people interested in 1. Romance 2. Comedy. Which...simply isn’t true. "There aren’t sweeping categories specific to men. You don’t hear people asking to watch “man movies” – instead, pretty much every intersection of genre is on the table and seen as for men, except of course, the aforementioned rom-coms. "And nicknaming … [Read more...] about Netflix accused of hypocrisy after it says use of phrase ‘chick flick’ is sexist… but no one told their algorithms
Beyoncé reveals in Netflix documentary Homecoming that one of her twins’ heartbeat stopped in the womb causing her to have emergency C-section
POP superstar Beyoncé has revealed one of her twins’ heartbeat stopped during her traumatic pregnancy. Speaking in her new bombshell Netflix documentary Homecoming, the diva, 37, also admits the twins were unplanned and her “body went through more than I knew it could.” She explained: “I was 218 pounds the day I gave birth. I had an extremely difficult pregnancy. “I had high blood pressure, I developed toxaemia, preeclampsia and in the womb, one of my babies heartbeat paused a few times so I had to get an emergency C-section.” The documentary includes intimate pictures and video footage from her birthing suite, where she is joined by husband, rapper Jay-Z, 49. She is seen cradling Rumi and Sir Carter shortly after the birth, while also filmed being transferred to the delivery room in a hospital bed. Homecoming focuses on the star’s Coachella gig in California last April, which took place ten months after she gave birth to the twins. The … [Read more...] about Beyoncé reveals in Netflix documentary Homecoming that one of her twins’ heartbeat stopped in the womb causing her to have emergency C-section