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“Who they came to see?” Beyoncé asks as she performs her 2023 single My House during the Cowboy Carter tour. For many, the answer has been Blue Ivy.
Blue Ivy Carter, the Grammy-winning artiste’s 13-year-old daughter, is more present than ever on stage, and fans are impressed by the growth from her first performance years ago to now.
Isabella Kerr, 15, has admired Beyoncé for years, but said she attended the Cowboy Carter tour specifically to experience Blue Ivy’s moves in person.
“People are saying, ‘Oh, she’s a mini Beyoncé,’ but no, I think she’s the first Blue. Everything about her when she’s on stage is electrifying,” said Kerr.
The Cowboy Carter tour concluded Saturday in Las Vegas and it had fans buzzing that Blue Ivy is well on her way to being a next-generation powerhouse.
Blue first graced the stage at 11 years old during her mother’s 2023 Renaissance tour. She performed again during ‘Beyoncé Bowl’, the NFL Christmas Day Half-time Show that was just nominated for four Emmy Awards. She danced alongside the icon as she performed songs from the Cowboy Carter album for the first time.
“Even the difference between the Renaissance Tour and now, you can tell she’s really grown in her confidence,” said fan and artiste Olivia Ellis. “You can tell she has a different vibe about her.”
On the Cowboy Carter tour, she can almost be mistaken for one of Beyoncé’s professional dancers. She is on stage for nearly every song and has a solo recreating her mother’s choreography from her 2006 Déjà-vu music video, a nod to the undeniable similarities between the two.
Online videos of Blue display professionalism comparable to her mother’s during the Cowboy Carter tour. During a rainy New Jersey stop, she brought out towels to dry her area of the stage before nailing her America Has a Problem choreography.
In another unexpected moment during a Chicago show, her earring got caught on Beyoncé’s hair. Blue remained calm, removed the jewellery and motioned to the singer that it was safe in her hand as they both seamlessly continued.
In Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé, fans were given a behind-the-scenes look at the decision-making process the first time Blue was allowed to perform. Beyoncé expressed how nervous she was about her child being in front of thousands of people made her, revealing she initially said no.
“I made a deal with her, and I said, ‘If you practise and you show your commitment, I’ll let you do one show.’” Blue Ivy fulfilled her end of the deal, and a fan base was formed: the Ivy League.
At last month’s Cowboy Carter Paris stop, members of the Beyhive and Ivy League finally got what they had been asking for — Blue Ivy merchandise. Shirts with the teen’s face and the phrase ‘Déjà Blue’ plastered on the front were available for purchase.
Prior to that, fans were creating their own custom pieces that highlighted Blue and Beyoncé’s connection.
At the MetLife Stadium show, Ellis wore a custom corset top she painted, showcasing Blue Ivy and her eight-year-old sister, Rumi Carter, on stage with Beyoncé during Protector, a track from the Cowboy Carter album that Rumi is featured on.
“I thought that would just be a really fun moment to highlight on a corset,” she said. “It’s just really cool to see her as a mom because we’ve all grown up with Beyoncé, and now it’s like her show is kind of like a family affair,” Ellis said.
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