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Next semester, Daphne Brooks, professor of African American Studies and music, will teach a new class titled “Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition History, Culture, Theory & Politics through Music.” In the class, students will examine Beyoncé’s artistic work from 2013 to 2024 as a lens to study Black history, intellectual thought and performance.

The course is a byproduct of Brooks’ previous class at Princeton University titled “Black Women in Popular Music Culture.” While at Princeton, Brooks served as a faculty member in the English and African American Studies Departments. Much of the content in her Yale course draws from the section in her Princeton course which focused on Beyoncé’s cultural impact.

“Those classes were always overenrolled,” Brooks said. “And there was so much energy around the focus on Beyoncé, even though it was a class that starts in the late 19th century and moves through the present day. I always thought I should come back to focusing on her and centering her work pedagogically at some point.”

Brooks believes that following the 2024 election and the events preceding it, it’s important to recognize Beyoncé’s unprecedented contributions to American culture, popular culture and global culture for the past two decades.

The course primarily centers around Beyoncé’s sonic, fashion and visual media following her 2013 self-titled album all the way through 2024’s “Cowboy Carter.” It also delves into the multifarious Black female experience in media and politics.

Beyoncé led the 2025 Grammy Award nominations, with 11 nods, a new one-year record for a woman artist. Bey had previously shared the record with Lauryn Hill, who received 10 nods at the 1999 ceremony. Bey had 10 nods at the 2010 ceremony. This is the fifth time that Bey has been the outright leader for most Grammy nods. In two other years, she shared the lead. These 11 nods bring Beyoncé’s career total to a record 99 nods. She had previously shared the record with her husband, Jay-Z, with 88 nods each.

Full list of Beyoncé's 2025 Grammy nominations
Record of the year: “Texas Hold 'Em”
Album of the year: "Cowboy Carter"
Song of the year: “Texas Hold 'Em”
Best pop solo performance: “Bodyguard”
Best pop duo/group performance: “Levii's Jeans” featuring Post Malone
Best melodic rap performance: “Spaghettii” featuring Linda Martell and Shaboozey
Best country solo performance: “16 Carriages”
Best country duo/group performance: “II Most Wanted" featuring Miley Cyrus
Best country song: “Texas Hold 'Em”
Best country album: "Cowboy Carter"
Best Americana performance: “Ya Ya”

The Grammys will take place Feb. 2 at the Crypto Arena in Los Angeles.

It’s been a busy last few months for Beyoncé.

Weeks after debuting her collaboration with Levi’s — the campaign for which alone generated $5 million in media impact value in 48 hours — and months after launching her whiskey brand SirDavis in partnership with LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the multihyphenate is bringing her latest fragrance to market.

Called Cé Lumière, the scent is available for preorder on Beyoncé’s website in the U.S. and Canada. It retails for $160.

The eau de parfum includes top notes of Madagascar black pepper and Italian mandarin; heart notes of jasmine sambac absolute and rhubarb, and base notes of Indonesian patchouli and skin musk.

Beyoncé will appear alongside Vice President Kamala Harris for the first time on the campaign trail in Houston on Friday, a person familiar with the planning tells CNN.

Since the moment Harris ascended to the top of the Democratic ticket and received Beyonce’s permission to use “Freedom” as the campaign’s official anthem, the vice president’s team has been working behind the scenes to negotiate a joint appearance before Election Day.

Rumors of a Beyoncé appearance at the Democratic convention threatened to overtake Harris’ acceptance speech. Campaign officials insist it was never the plan to have Beyoncé join Harris in Chicago, even as they sent conflicting signals in the moment.

The Friday appearance in Houston, where Beyoncé will appear with Willie Nelson, is designed to be one of the biggest closing acts of the campaign. It remains an open question whether Taylor Swift will join Harris, given she is back in the United States for the final swing of her Eras Tour.

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Beyoncé and Jay-Z have received a public apology from Piers Morgan after the polarizing talk-show host aired inflammatory allegations about them on his program.

About a week after interviewing Jaguar Wright on Piers Morgan Uncensored — during which the singer-songwriter called the Roc Nation founder and Sean “Diddy” Combs “monsters,” and claimed that the famous couple had hundreds of victims — Morgan kicked off the Tuesday (Oct. 8) episode of his show by sharing he’d been contacted by the Carter family’s lawyers, who denied Wright’s allegations. Noting that “there are legal limits” that even he must follow, Morgan went on to explain that he’d obliged a request from the attorneys to remove the claims from his on-camera interview with Wright before issuing an apology to Bey and Jay.

“Jaguar Wright unexpectedly made several serious allegations about Jay-Z and Beyoncé during that interview,” he told viewers of his Oct. 2 interview with Wright. “As I said, in the moment, they were not present to respond or defend themselves, but now they have. Their lawyers contacted us to say that those claims were totally false and have no basis in fact.”

“We’ve therefore complied with the legal request to cut them from the original interview,” the former host of CNN’s Piers Morgan Live continued. “Editing interviews is not something we do lightly on a show called Uncensored. But, like the proverbial cries of fire in a crowded theater, there are legal limits on us, too. And we apologize to Jay-Z and Beyoncé.”

The MTV Europe Music Awards (EMA) nominations have been announced, and Beyoncé is up for three awards.

Fans from 23 regions around the world can vote for their favourites on the EMAs website from now until 6 November.

The MTV EMA ceremony will take place on 10 November, for the first time in Manchester at the Co-op Live arena.

Here is the full list of Beyoncé's nominations:

Best song
Ariana Grande – “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”
Benson Boone – “Beautiful Things”
Beyoncé – “Texas Hold ‘Em”
Billie Eilish – “Birds of a Feather”
Chappell Roan – “Good Luck, Babe!”
Sabrina Carpenter – “Espresso”

Beyoncé and Levi’s officially unveiled their ad campaign on Monday. The collaboration comes after the Grammy-winning singer gave the clothing brand a call-out with her song “Levii’s Jeans” from her eighth studio album “Cowboy Carter,” which released last March.

Beyoncé posted the campaign images to her Instagram account, sharing two placements and amassing $1.3 million in Media Impact Value, according to Launchmetrics. Over a period of 48 hours, the campaign earned $5 million in MIV. (MIV is a proprietary metric that assigns a true monetary value to marketing strategies across print, online and social media in order to calculate ROI.)

The “Reimagine” campaign stars the venerated singer and entertainer in a twist on some of Levi’s most iconic advertisements. The first ad featuring Beyoncé is a call-back to Levi’s 1985 commercial featuring a young man going into a laundromat, stripping off his Levi’s and waiting in his underwear while his jeans go through the washing machine.

Nobody does denim like Beyoncé. The superstar hits the laundromat in a pair of skintight Levi’s 501 jeans for the brand’s “Reiimagine” campaign released on Monday (Sept. 30).

Inspired by “the legacy of Levi’s,” the campaign reimagines the classic 501 jeans as told in a “series of chapters” starring Beyoncé.

“My song ‘Levii’s Jeans’ celebrates what I believe is the ultimate Americana uniform — something we all wear with pride,” Beyoncé said in a statement. “I am honored to work with Levi’s to create quintessential American iconography. Denim-on-denim has often been seen through a male lens, so this reimagining campaign, which celebrates the iconic female perspective, is important to me. I look forward to exploring innovative ways for our visions to align in empowering women and honoring their strength.”

The first chapter, titled “Launderette,” is inspired by a 1985 Levi’s ad. In the commercial, Bey walks into a laundromat wearing ‘90s Women’s 501 Jeans ($98), an essentials Sport T-shirt and a denim cowboy hat. She opens the washing machine, throws in some diamonds — instead of laundry detergent, because she’s a glamorous girlie — before pulling off her jeans (revealing Levi’s undies) and throwing them in the washer. And of course, her Cowboy Carter track “Levii’s Jeans” plays throughout the commercial.

Emmy-winning cinematographer Marcell Rév brought the visual to life, while Levi’s commissioned photographer Mason Poole for the campaign imagery.

Beyoncé’s Levi’s campaign will expand across television, out-of-home advertising, digital, social media, print and brand activations in addition to exclusive products. To kick off the campaign, digital projections launched in San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Paris, London and Berlin on Monday.

“In collaboration with Beyoncé, we explore the power of reimagination through this campaign, helping us to connect with our fans in new ways and supporting the growth of our women’s business as the definitive denim lifestyle brand,” said Levi’s.

Levi’s is getting closer with Beyoncé. The denim mainstay posted a drawing reminiscent of Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” album cover on Instagram Monday morning. While the only text alongside the image of a cowgirl on a horse said, “Introducing: A New Chapter,” clicking on the red and white picture produced a caption that said “beyonce.”

A spokeswoman for the brand declined to elaborate and simply said, “More to come.” Later on Monday, invites went out for a small Paris Fashion Week event with Beyoncé’s stylist Shiona Turini and the brand that will celebrate the opening of Levi’s Haus of Strauss in the City of Light.

Billboards for the new ad campaign have already appeared in Berlin and Paris with the September 30 date for a supposed launch.

Over the past 30+ years Pharrell Williams has written and produced hits for everyone from *NSYNC (and solo smashes for Justin Timberlake) to Usher, Britney Spears, Busta Rhymes, No Doubt, Clipse, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Robin Thicke and many more.

But in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the 51-year-old singer/rapper/producer and fashion designer who is the subject of the upcoming genre-busting LEGO biopic Piece By Piece opened up about some of the mega collaborations that got away, as well as one that he suggested he might be revisiting soon.

When Pharrell, who has worked on a number of albums and singles with Beyoncé over the past two decades — including producing her 2002 debut solo single, “Work It Out” — was asked what it’s been like to see the singer evolve from her Destiny’s Child days to now, the response likely made the Beyhive sit up and take notice.

“So happy for her. And I’m so grateful to be a part of her story and her journey and her trajectory,” said Pharrell of the singer who broke out in yet another direction earlier this year with her chart-topping , country-leaning Cowboy Carter album, on which he co-wrote and co-produced the song “Sweet Honey Buckiin'” featuring Shaboozey. “We’ve had a lot of fun. Get ready, though. Just get ready.”

When asked what we should prepare for, Williams was coy but adamant, reiterating, twice, “Just get ready.”

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Queen Bey is heading to a Pennsylvania college this fall, and it’s not for the reason you might think.

Widener University in Delaware County is introducing a brand new freshman course focused on none other than Beyoncé.

The course will explore the following topics: continuing cultural and social significance of Beyoncé as a source of economic empowerment, feminism and Afrocentricity, a spokesperson for Widener said.

The course is taught by Dr. Richard Cooper, director of the Bachelor of Social Work program and coordinator of African American Studies at Widener University.

Cooper said that during this course, fans/students will use their knowledge of the Grammy Award winner to analyze the singer’s identity and social impact on a deeper level.

“Incoming freshmen are certainly familiar with some of Beyoncé’s amazing work, including the latest project titled Cowboy Carter. “However, part of the dynamic growth process that comes from liberal arts education experiences is to begin with what students already understand as an initial starting point,” Cooper said.

MTV announced the four social categories and their nominees for its 2024 Video Music Awards.

Voting for the categories will be hosted on MTV’s Instagram Story.

The best trending video category “celebrates the artist’s videos and/or songs inspired fandoms to generate tremendous content related to the video and/or song.” Nominees include Beyoncé, Camila Cabello ft. Playboi Carti, Chappell Roan, Charli xcx, Megan Thee Stallion ft. Yuki Chiba and Tinashe. Fans can start voting on Sept. 2 at 11 a.m. ET with voting ending on Sept. 3 at 11 a.m. ET.

Another category fans can vote on is the show’s most iconic performance in years past. Performances include the memorable kiss that took place onstage during Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Madonna and Missy Elliot’s mash-up performance of “Like a Virgin” and “Hollywood”; Beyoncé’s pregnancy reveal after performing “Love on Top”; and Swift’s first VMAs performance with “You Belong With Me.” Voting begins Sept. 10 at 11 a.m. ET and concludes Sept. 11 at 11 a.m. ET.

The VMAs will return to New York and will take place at Long Island’s UBS Arena on Sept. 11 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

Beyoncé doesn’t give her music to just anyone.

But the pop supernova made an exception for Zoë Kravitz, who skillfully deploys a fan-favorite “Renaissance” track during the bloody finale of her provocative new thriller “Blink Twice.”

The film follows a social climber named Frida (Naomi Ackie), who takes an impromptu vacation with billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum) and his hard-partying posse. But their exotic island paradise gradually turns into a cult-like nightmare, as Frida discovers that Slater and his male cohorts have been drugging and assaulting the women in the group to assert their dominance.

When the women wake up to the men's abuse, they kill them off one by one. And at the end of the film, Frida teams up with new friend Sarah (Adria Arjona) to take revenge on Slater. Armed with knives, they stride into his palatial compound, soundtracked by the woozy opening thrums of Beyoncé’s “I’m That Girl.”

Frida and Slater tussle on the floor, knocking over candles and burning the mansion to the ground. But rather than let him go up in flames, Frida saves the corrupt tech CEO, and with the help of some memory-wiping substances, blackmails him for his fortune. And in the film's final scene, she hosts a swanky gala of her own.

The hypnotic “I’m That Girl,” with its rousing declaration of “ain’t stopping me,” was perfect for the movie’s empowering climax.

The Trump campaign does not have the freedom to use Beyoncé's "Freedom."

Former President Donald Trump's team has taken down a video featuring the singer's song after her record label and music publisher reportedly threatened to send a cease-and-desist letter, Rolling Stone reported on Wednesday.

The video featured the Lemonade track playing as Trump walked off a plane in Michigan. Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung posted the video on Twitter on Tuesday with the caption "Touchdown in Michigan!! @realDonaldTrump." The tweet has since been deleted.

The 2016 song has become Vice President and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris' unofficial presidential campaign anthem with her running mate Tim Walz, and Beyoncé's team previously gave Harris' camp permission to use it. Harris has used the song since beginning her presidential campaign earlier this summer, walking up to the podium while "Freedom" played in her first appearance after President Joe Biden's endorsement, and as recently as Monday in a new ad also featuring Jeffrey Wright's narration.

Beyoncé's "Freedom" has also been played throughout the ongoing Democratic National Convention, currently taking place in Chicago.

Representatives for Trump's campaign and Beyoncé did not immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly's request for comment.

Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has joined forces with Moët Hennessy, a subsidiary of LVMH, to create SirDavis, a groundbreaking new whisky. The first-of-its-kind joint venture reflects a shared vision between Knowles-Carter and Moët Hennessy, two vanguards of culture and craft, around the future of American whisky.

This unique product was years in the making after Knowles-Carter, a Japanese whisky enthusiast, sought out Moët Hennessy to help craft a one-of-a-kind flavor profile that reflected her whisky ideal. Meanwhile, Moët Hennessy had been exploring ways to deepen its presence in the American whisky market, making the timing kismet for a partnership between the world-leading luxury group and Knowles-Carter.

"I've always been drawn to the power and confidence I feel when drinking quality whisky and wanted to invite more people to experience that feeling," says SirDavis Founder Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. "When I discovered that my great-grandfather had been a moonshine man, it felt like my love for whisky was fated. SirDavis is a way for me to pay homage to him, uniting us through a new shared legacy. In partnering with Moët Hennessy, we have crafted a delicious American whisky that respects tradition but also empowers people to experience something new and unique in the category. You can taste it better than I could ever tell you — welcome, SirDavis."

Zach Bryan and Beyoncé are the leading nominees for the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards, with 19 and 17 nods, respectively.

Hosted by Shania Twain, the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards will air live Thursday, Sept. 26, at 8 p.m. ET/PT across NBC and Peacock from the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville.

The show bills itself as “an award show for the people and by the people.” Winners are chosen entirely by the fans. Voting begins now and runs through Friday, Aug. 23, at 11:59 p.m. ET. Fans can vote online at VotePCCA.com. Votes cast on Turbo Tuesday, Aug. 20, from midnight to 11:59 p.m. ET, will count twice, equaling a maximum of two votes per day, per category. (Complete rules can be found here.)

Here are Beyoncé's nominations for the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards:

MTV has revealed the nominees for this year's Video Music Awards.

Beyoncé hasn't released a music video since 2021 but earned a song of the year nomination for "Texas Hold 'Em" from "Cowboy Carter." She's up against Jack Harlow, Kendrick Lamar, Sabrina Carpenter, Taylor Swift and Teddy Swims.

The VMAs will air live from New York at 7 p.m. Sept. 10.

On the off-chance you’ve been living under a rock and don’t know, Kamala Harris has emerged as the front-runner for the Democratic pick for president in the 2024 election.

If you did know about that (as we hope you do), you may have also noticed that her campaign is full of the song “Freedom” by Beyoncé from her Lemonade album. Many may also know that Beyoncé isn’t one to give out rights to her songs very easily, so that in itself is a huge feat.

Also, whoever’s running the KamalaHQ accounts on social is doing an incredible job (and honestly most likely run by a fierce gay).

Well, Beyoncé has taken her support just a little bit further than clearing the rights for “Freedom” and is, according to The Daily Mail, also clearing her schedule to attend one of the campaign’s fundraisers.

Even further, the source also claimed that she has set aside $4 million dollars to donate to the campaign, with “plans to donate more if she sees the need to.”