

Other highlights throughout the night included Jay Z's catalog of hits, such as "I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)," ''Dirt Off Your Shoulder" and "Big Pimpin." He went from "H to the Izzo" to ".In Paris," ending it by rapping the Kanye West verse: "She said, "'Ye, can we get married at the mall? I said, "Look, you need to crawl before you ball.A s self-mythologising couples go, not many come close to Beyoncé and Jay-Z. She danced with precision on songs like "Run the World (Girls)," ''Flawless" and "Ring the Alarm." Sometimes it was so clean she appeared robotic. It was also one of many songs where Beyonce danced with skill, enticing and igniting the audience and proving even further that she is contemporary pop's leading performer. She nodded her head and then transitioned to "Diva," where her singing style is not far from rapping, and her swag is not far from Jay Z's. And when Jay Z performed the anthemic "Clique," Beyonce was behind him.

When Jay Z rapped about his "bad chick, H-town" during "Tom Ford," Beyonce crept onstage. They kicked off the nearly three-hour concert with high energy, going from "'03 Bonnie & Clyde" to "Upgrade U" to "Crazy In Love." They changed clothes about 10 times throughout the show, wearing mostly black with touches of leather onstage. The transition from "Why Don't You Love Me" to "Holy Grail" was one of many that worked perfectly as the duo performed three dozen songs - some in snippets - for a feverish group of fans at a stadium with 40,000 seats. She followed that by singing Justin Timberlake's part on the hit "Holy Grail," staring directly at Jay Z and singing the lyrics as if it were written for her.

In concert, they seemed to lay it all out through song.īeyonce was most passionate when she sang the upbeat number "Why Don't You Love Me." She even grew teary-eyed after she belted some of the lyrics and paused for a minute as the crowd cheered. The back-to-back performances full of sentiment and sensation were welcomed since Jayonce is pop's most intimate couple. And a video followed, starting with the line, "Love is an act of endless forgiveness." She changed the lyrics to note she's been "riding with you for 12 years," which earned a rousing roar from the crowd. Beyonce performed the 2006 song sitting down and wearing a wedding veil.
