Queen Bey is back, baby! The day before Beyoncé hit the Super Bowl stage with Coldplay and Bruno Mars, she dropped her newest single on Tidal, called “Formation.” After a mostly quiet 2015, except for Coldplay’s “Hymn for the Weekend” featuring Beyonce, this track was not expected. Like always, she slays the charts and immediately gets her BeyHive hyped for an album.
The track “Formation” is politically charged and has been torn apart by critics. However, there’s a lot of important messages Bey wanted her audience to take away from this controversial piece, and here are some of them.
1. Because she’s a boss lady, she comes out swinging at all her haters with the line, “Y’all haters corny with that Illuminati mess.”
Well, at least she’s addressing the long talked-about possibility.
2. She brought the conversation back to Hurricane Katrina when she was depicted lying on top of a police car emerging in water.
3. She pays respect to her family roots, singing about where her parents came from (dad is from Alabama, mom is from Louisiana) and stating her love for her own hometown: Texas.
Beyoncé reminds us that country is where her heart is at (“I got hot sauce in my bag, swag”).
4. To all the haters talking about Jay Z’s big nose and Blue Ivy’s hair, Beyoncé knows and doesn’t really care.
To be honest, she loves Blue Ivy’s Afro and loves all her black features.
5. "Formation" is also highlighting ladies and their obligation to stand together.
So is Beyonce a feminist? I think so.
6. She’s all for a lack of humility, slaying with the line, “I just might be a Black Bill Gates in the making” and, “I slay, all day.”
She does slay.
7. This video is dripping with black pride and black love and the message that black people are brilliant and bold.
She’s a boss for dropping it in Black History Month and for standing up for the voices unheard from police brutality. She is all about advocating against the violent crimes happening against black youth and wants us all to know. In one scene of the video, “Stop killing us" is written on a wall in graffiti.
8. I think the best part of this video is that the only white people are the cops who put their hands up to a little black kid.
Making a huge statement and call for action, she even refers to the Black Panthers, who practiced self-defense of minority communities in the '60s, in the way her dancers are dressed.
Now, about the Super Bowl performance that also slayed. She came in hot with her fabulous crew of dancers with a performance of her new hit single, “Formation.”
I think it’s safe to say that Beyonce killed it, yet again. I can’t even begin to explain how I felt on that Saturday watching the video and basking in its glory. Although I'm kind of bias because I have always been a fan of Beyonce, I can say that it’s hard not to love this woman. She slays in all things life-related and that’s a fact.
It doesn’t matter if she stays in the dark for a year because she will always come back and be on top in less than 24 hours.
Oh, don’t forget to get tickets to her Formation World Tour, if you can get them!



















