Beyoncé’s Global Impact

Published Sep 4, 2023, 7:00 AM

Beyoncé's impact on music and pop culture is undeniable. The Daily Show dives deep into Queen Bey's global influence. Trevor Noah covers the media freakout over Beyoncé's "Lemonade" album and former correspondent Jessica Williams dissects the political messages in Beyoncé's 2013 Super Bowl Halftime performance. Also, Trevor talks about the time Beyoncé left him starstruck at the Oscars and takes guesses on who he thinks bit Beyoncé at a party.

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So much stuff happened this weekend. Where do I start? I'll tell you exactly where. We starts with Lemonade.

Boy, it is Beyonce No how to drop an album, A.

Big reveal, Lemonade, Beyonce's surprise new album.

Beyonce stopping the world once again, dropping a visual album, The.

Shroud of Secrecy, followed by an HBO special, The Bombshells Masterpiece.

Setting the Internet on Fire.

Yeah, setting the Internet on fire. Thanks for setting the Internet on fire, Beyonce. That's how we get our porn. You know, I gotta go back to magazines now.

Do you know how big this was? Like this, this was huge. Anything that wasn't Lemonade this weekend didn't mean I mean. President Obama said he was quintupling the number of special forces he's sending to Syria.

Nothing.

North Korea launched the missile for the first time from a submarine, making it even harder to defend against nothing. And one of the Koch brothers said that Hillary Clinton might make a better president than any of the current Republican options. That is so insane, That is all insane, And obviously, obviously Hillary Clinton.

She was.

She was like, I don't need the Coke support. I don't need them. But you know, she was like on the side, like hit me up with Snapchat, hit me.

Up chat.

For people paid hardly any attention to all of that, because Beyonce is the news, and the best part of Beyonce is realizing that despite fifteen years of talking about her, news anchors remain unready for her. Jenny Beyonce showing her enormous influence on popular culture. Showing her enormous influence on popular culture. Focus Gail Focus, you're on Live TV. You know, I don't blame Gail though, because this visual album was a feast for the senses. You know, it uses a story of infidelity to touch on everything from female empowerment to so justice, embracing blackness, and the importance of fire safety.

Ah.

Well, you see here Beyonce is showing us the importance of staying calm during a fire evacuation, dress well and walk towards an exits. Now. Ah this this is an example of an artist at are a peak, you know, at the peak of her powers, taking on so many issues musically, visually, socially. Everything is happening, but Apparently all anyone can talk about is.

This infidelity, adultery, cheating, trouble.

For Queen Bee and jay Z, lies and distrust, marital strife.

She adds feel to the rumors her husband, jay Z, cheated on her scandal.

There is just so much to take in right now. Who would have ever suspected that jay Z could possibly cheat on Beyonce? There were no clues. It's not like you ever made a song that said girls, girls, girls, girls, girls. I do adore no clues at all. And Beyonce, why do you keep doing this to us? You know you're causing chaos. We can't handle this, Queen Bee. Every time you drop something, the world stops. We have to analyze it. Every single time Beyonce dropped something, Beyonce.

Just dropped her keys.

What does it mean?

What does it mean?

So now in this album, Beyonce maybe said that jay Z maybe had an affair with someone, And so now Beyonce's fans have declared a fatus on some alleged side chick basically, and that possible side chick is a designer, Rachel Roy. That's what the internet thinks. And no, that's not my accent. I said, Rachel Roy, not Rachel Ray. The difference, Rachel, and You're not the only ones who are confused by.

This misdirected fans seem to be going after the wrong Rachel. Every fans posted elevens and insults all over celebrity chef Rachel Ray's Instagram account, one fan telling her, go caramelize some money.

Yes, what.

The internet is so weird? You're this foody?

Insults?

Now, yeah, caramelize some onions. Why don't you go in saute some mushrooms?

And while you added, add some paprika to the chicken? Who's insulting you? Martha Stewart? What's going on here? This entire event left everyone asking so many questions. Did jay Z cheat? Who is Rachel Roy? Are you sure it's not Rachel Ray? The only question people weren't asking after that video is why does society always punish the woman in an affair much more than the man? Yeah, people are going after this mystery woman like she tricked jay Z into her vagina, Like like she just laid a trail of Yankee hats leading up to her bedroom for Jaz to follow. I just don't get it. As we all know, last night was the Super Bowl, and it seems like the real MVP of the night was Beyonce. For more, we turned to our senior Beyonce correspondent, Jessica Williams. Everybody people, thanks Trevor.

On Saturday, Beyonce dropped her new song Formation, and in typical Beyonce fashion, there was an epic video to go along with it. Everybody in the Bayhive went to noles Con One, which is reserved only for the most intense Beyonce drops. JK were always in nos Con One and it was awesome because there was so much in this video about black female and Parliament. But it's not just about self love. I mean, she calls out police brutality and the constant fear that black people have of the police. She even threw back to Hurricane Katrina. The black girl magic in that video was out of control. She was like a beautiful black Dumbledore, but wearing a really nice weed and three thousand dollars worth of Gucci. And that was just the tailgame before the Big Game. It really was an amazing show, but not everyone was ready for that jelly.

In the end, we find out that Beyonce dressed up in a tribute to the Black Panthers went to a Malcolm X formation and the song the lyrics which I couldn't make out a syllable where basically it's telling cops to us up shooting blacks.

I thought it was really outrageous that she used it as a platform to attack police officers.

Is there anything in America which can exclude race? I mean, why is race brought into the halftime show at a super Bowl game?

Why race was brought in because Beyonce was brought in and race yourself. You might want to sit down for this, but Beyonce is black, and as a black person, you walk around every day constantly reminded that you are black. We're more likely to get paid less, we're more likely to get sent to prison, and we're more likely to win a dance competition. But it's not all bad. The point is Beyonce is black and this song is her message. That's what artists do their messages in their music, Like how Chris Martin wore his Global Citizen armband to promote his message of ending worldwide poverty, or how Bruno Mars delivered his message about how Uptown was gonna plunk me up. That's a threat I live uptown. I barely slept after that performance. How dare he say something like that? And why are people surprised that Beyonce would send a message during the show. She's done this since the beginning of her career. Have we forgotten when she addressed the importance of mental health and crazy in love?

Oh?

Oh oh oh No? No, indeed, But look, I get it. Beyonce wasn't just doing any television performance. I mean, this was the Super Bowl and that's what got some people pissed.

You're talking to middle of America when when when you got a sweet when you had a super Bowl? So if you can have entertainment, let's have you know, decent, wholesome entertainment.

Okay, So, first of all, are you saying that you can't talk about race issues to Middle America? What are they so delicate and unaware and maybe so white that Beyonce is too much for them? You know what's right in the middle of them, America Ferguson Missouri And furthermore, furthermore, I am so sorry because wasn't wholesome enough for you. I didn't realize that singing about race was equivalent to Janet Jackson getting her titty pulled out at the Super Bowl. But you're right, you know what, the fans deserve wholesome entertainment, like watching three hundred pounds men give each other concussions while a crowd cheers like we're extras in the movie Gladiator. So what is wrong with Beyonce?

Everyone? Were you not entertained? Jessica Williams, Everyone, We'll be right back. The Oscars was amazing, No, jenuine it was my first time there. Im eternally grateful to anyone who made it happen. I was, I was in heaven. I was like, this is genuinely insane. I don't fancy about it. I see people tweeting all the time like nobody cares about the aftercars, whole cats, whole ca I don't care about that, man, I don't care. And then it's like Helen Marion, was that Helen marrin? Oh my god, Daniel Craig, I can't, I can now, I can? People try? And that cool all they want. Man's like, no matter who you are on the world, you watch movies, do you know what I mean? Like movies that will make you happy, movies that will make you sad. These people you see them as part of your life, you've grown up with them. The when you see them in person, it's it's it's a magical experience. It genuinely is like the event was amazing, and then there's like all these after parties that come afterwards. In my opinion, probably the best after party of the night is the jay Z Beyonce off the party. Yeah, so they throw and it's like the coolest thing of is no social media, there's no anything.

It's just people having a great time and like everyone's just having fun. But again, it's a little it's a little weird because like if you're not used to it, there are moments when you go like this is surreal, all right, because like one moment, I'm on the.

Dance floor and I'm dancing. I'm like dancing because the DJ Black Coffee was there, so African dj amazing and he's on and so I'm dancing. I'm like yeah, South Africans, South Africans. And then and then Usher comes onto the dance floor and he's like, let's dance.

And it's like no, no, no, Usher, No, You're like a professional, no, like the rest of.

Us is just like eh.

And then USh just like move, move to the other one, to the thing, do it all. Yeah, And it's like, no, there should be like a professional dance floor and then a dance floor for the rest of us. This is both like the rest of us is like making our bodies move and ushers dancing. It's like, what's next karaoke with Beyonce. No, it's not fair, it's not fair. You go dance over there. And speaking of bed like Beyonce and Jane Night like just the sweetest, nicest people.

You know.

This was the weirdest moment of my night and maybe my life. I will see where I categorize it was. I'm on the dance floor, everyone's having a good time, and then Beyonce starts walking in my direction, so I'm like, oh, I should move right because it's Beyonce. Where she is going is not to me, So I'm like, I'm like, I must move. It's Beyonce. And I also do not want to be Hive coming after me because they're like, yo, you block Beyonce's path. I don't want to be involved in this. So she like walks towards me, so I like turn to move out of the way, but it turns out she was coming to say hi. She says hi to everybody, like just like like a nice high. You think she'd be like sitting in a box like waving. No, She's saying hi, and she's really cool and she comes over to say hi. But now I'm like moving away from her, and she's like trying to like come in and hug me and say hi, and I'm like moving And then I realized, I'm like, I'm like, I'm making Beyonce do this weird move. And I'm like, oh, I'm sorry, may I'm I'm toir sorry. There was that it was if it never happens again, it's fine, I'm done. The biggest news story that we need to cover, and I mean it's it's troubling me and it's a tough issue and I'll figure out how to get into it. But it's the big story about who bit Beyonce as a pressing issue. It's been plaguing me every single day. I thought it was like a little story that was going to go away, but it's really big. I don't know if you know the details of this, but Tiffany Hattish was I think it was a GQ interview, and she said that she offered to fight someone on behalf of Beyonce because she was at a party and someone bit Beyonce on her cheek apparently, and now everyone's like, who bits Beyonce. There's all types of speculation, and I'm trying to figure it out in my head. I'm trying to like go through it all, Like I don't think that it would be a black celebrity. I'll tell you why. I just don't think any black person thinks that they would be like comfortable enough to bite Beyonce. If you ever see black people with beyond, everyone is just like the Queen. We're here, we're here, we're here, We're just like stand around. There's like a force field. So in my head, I'm trying to figure out who I've heard rumors of, like Jennifer Lawrence, which I could see, she seems like she would pull something like that. She'd just be like, oh my god, taste that I can see it. But yeah, we're gonna be on the case. Does anyone have like any any suspicions who you think it was? Christy Tegan, No, she's she said she didn't do it. She said, well, she said John Legend told her she didn't do it. She was so like he if she gets like really drunk, he tells her what happened during and he's like, no, you didn't do that. He probably would have made her turn herself in or he would have stopped her. She would have been like, I'm gonna bite Beyonce and he would be like.

No, no, no, no, oh no, I.

Don't think it's Christy Tiger. Who else do you think it could be?

Who?

Mike Tyson? Mike Tyson, No, I bet Mike Tyson. I wouldn't bite.

I'd never bite the Ica, you know, I mean like see the you know, I mean to do something like that. It's my past life and I'm gon by me. I really wonder who, like whoever that person is.

If it comes out, it's over for them. Like the Beehive, you do not want to be on the wrong side of Beyonce's fan base. They will find you. They will find you, and they will hurt you. It will hurt you to the rhythm of single Ladies, all of them will be slapping.

Huh.

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