This week, I had the great pleasure of attending Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour for her fourth performance at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey (technically her “New York” tour stop). As I prepped to schlep my elder millennial keister across the Hudson via public transit, I…was worried. Would Beyoncé deliver? I had no doubt. Would she and I get soaking wet in the process? The severe rain outside my window made me think it inevitable.
My journey to Jerz included a departure from New York’s famed (and in-desperate-need-of-a-gut-reno) Penn Station. In case there were any question of “who run the world,” it became clear by the throngs of denim-clad and cowboy hat-donning fans clamoring to catch the next train that the answer is, indeed, Beyoncé (and girls, obvi).
As expected, I arrived to the stadium in the rain along with thousands and thousands of others who now had the good fortune of hiding their chic fringe and denim beneath dollar store ponchos. (I personally wore a fringe crop jacket, a denim button-down and a disco ball cowboy hat. Though the only thing people saw during my long wait to get through security was a man in a giant, rain-soaked trash bag with a disco ball hat on top of his plastic hood.)