Rumors Fly About Beyonce’s DNC Performance
One headline from The Hill: “Beyonce to perform at Democratic convention: Sources.”
NBC Chicago asked, “Did the White House political director just drop a major hint about Beyoncé DNC appearance?”
Blared TMZ, “BEYONCÉ DNC’s PERFORMING AT Final Night!!”. (The Washington Post has sought comments from TMZ.)
The Build-Up to Kamala Harris’s Speech
“🚨🚨SHE’s THERE!!!” the X account @beyoncepress announced at 7:16 p.m. Central time alongside a video of a black SUV driving through Chicago’s River North neighborhood escorted by a motorcade roughly an hour and a half before Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris arrived at the United Center.
Eventually, though, it was not for Bey. Over the previous two days, conjecture ran wild about the 32-time Grammy winner who would show up at the convention accepting the Democratic candidacy. But the last speaker of the evening, Harris, was accompanied by 100,000 balloons and a piped-in rendition of Beyoncé’s “Freedom,” a song the Harris campaign has been utilizing in campaign advertising and videos that ran all through the event.
The Big Reveal: Kamala Harris Takes Center Stage
And yet: poor Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt of D.C. and the Rev. Amos Brown of San Francisco had to deliver the benedict evening to a crowd that was deflating faster than the helium orbs littering the stage even after the red, white, and blue balloons dropped and the hugging Harris, Emhoff and Walz families were warned via teleprompter to PLEASE LEAVE THE STAGE.
“If you think about it in a macro sort of way, Kamala harris was the surprise guest all along,” reporter Sopan Deb said on X.
“Imagine arriving for a Beyoncé concert and finding Leon Panetta,” said another X user.
Columnist Laura Bassett said, “Teasing a huge surprise guest and leaking that it’s both Beyonce and Taylor Swift just to get people to tune in is actually kind of funny.”
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Beyonce’s Past Support for Biden-Harris
Fairness would have made it hardly out of the question. Beyoncé seemed to support President Joe Biden and Harris in 2020: on the eve of the election, she urged Texas citizens to cast their votes via an Instagram footage featuring her sporting a Biden-Harris mask. She congratulated Biden and Harris on their win five days later. Her contribution to the competition this year has been “Freedom,” which was utilized as a rallying cry following George Floyd’s 2020 police murder and to promote Black Lives Matter protests in 2016.
Legal Drama Over “Freedom”
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung also made fleeting use of it in a video, which spurred rumors that the Trump campaign would be allowed to utilize it. But the video was taken off Cheung’s X page hours following Wednesday’s Rolling Stone revelation of Beyoncé’s team’s consideration of a cease-and-desist letter.
Concurrently, the artist agreed to use the song for the Harris campaign based on many sources.
Beyoncé’s representatives did not answer many inquiries for comments.
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