I feel bad for anyone who still hasn’t learned to speak
Beyoncé. Her language is the body. It’s stagecraft. It’s Instagram posts. She
doesn’t speak; she signifies. And her performance on Friday at a Hillary
Clinton rally
in Cleveland won excitement and dismay over the possibility that
she had reached some partisan peak by announcing that she was officially “with
her.”
But anyone who caught her appearance on Wednesday at the
50th annual Country Music Association Awards in Nashville knew that while
Friday might have been, for Mrs. Clinton, strategically necessary, it was also
politically anticlimactic. Beyoncé had already been with her — three hers, in
fact. Partway through the broadcast, she arrived flanked by the Dixie Chicks, a
trio of once insanely popular, then absurdly disgraced musicians who keep on
going anyway. Together, they did a version of Beyoncé’s twangy scorcher “Daddy
Lessons,” with a little of the Dixie Chicks’ “Long Time Gone” woven in toward
the end. As polemical television, it was powerfully sly.
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