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Beychella
or BeyChella [bee-chel-uh]
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叠别测肠丑别濒濒补听is a blend of superstar artist听叠别测辞苍肠茅听and the music festival Coachella.
It refers to 叠别测辞苍肠茅’s historic, headlining performance at Coachella in 2018.
Where does Beychella come from?
Nearly every year since 1999, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has been held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. With its huge, star-powered lineups, the festival has become听one of hottest, hippest musical festivals around the world.
Until 2018, Coachella had never had a black woman as a headliner. (To date, only four women have headlined Coachella: Bj枚rk twice, Lady Gaga, 叠别测辞苍肠茅, and in 2019, Ariana Grande, whose performance some called听Arichella.) That all changed when 叠别测辞苍肠茅鈥攚ho often goes by the nickname Queen Bey, pronounced [bee], not [bey]鈥攖ook the stage in April 2018 with an epic performance incorporating a huge cast of dancers and musicians.
Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for Coachella / NPR
Queen Bey’s performance, spanning more than two hours, became one of the most watched Coachella performances on YouTube鈥攁nd her fans, called the Bey Hive, dubbed it Beychella or #Beychella. Besides the spectacular show itself, 叠别测辞苍肠茅’s set incorporated scores of references celebrating black culture, from the black feminism of Nina Simone to traditions of HBCUs, or historically black colleges and universities.
Beychella got a bump in April 2019 when Netflix released a documentary about 叠别测辞苍肠茅’s Coachella performance, called听Homecoming.听Unlike YouTube clips, Homecoming听allowed people who were not so privileged to attend the original event to see Beychella in its full glory.
No artist can beat ONLY THE QUEEN BEY!!!!!!
— Juan Pablo Cruz (@imthatboypablo)
Examples of Beychella
Who uses Beychella?
Beychella most often refers to 叠别测辞苍肠茅’s performance at Coachella in 2018. Some may use Beychella for听Coachella itself鈥攖he implication being that she’s such a queen, the festival might as well be named after her!
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— Vlan 鈾� (@KvngVlan)
The hashtag “#Beychella” is also found on social media to tag people’s thoughts and feelings about the performance and the Netflix documentary 贬辞尘别肠辞尘颈苍驳鈥�or when trying to mimic its choreography. Sometimes the documentary itself is referred to as Beychella.
Beychella really got me.
— ~ m u s k a a n (@differentisnice)
Beychella is often paired with the honeybee听emoji, 馃悵, a reference to 叠别测辞苍肠茅 as Queen Bey.
6th time 馃悵馃挍 (I鈥檓 trying to learn at least some of the choreography 馃槀)
— Malik馃 (@maalikk00)
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