Beyoncé tour kick-off: Her whisky is hardly left unshown in any video

Media criticism, Black History and, for the three hundred and fiftieth time, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”: singer Beyoncé’s London concert fluctuates between great conceptual art and a revue of numbers.

Many have put on chaps, half exposed in the front and half in the back, and now their backsides are freezing. At Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on this Thursday evening, you can see more snakeskin boots than anywhere else in the world, more fringed jackets, shirts with strange appliqués. Above all, of course: cowboy hats. With pompoms and chains, made of denim, straw, and linen, with disco ball silver, tartan, and flashing lights. Even a hat that appears to be wearing tiny pants.