Dear Gossips, 

Beyoncé has now wrapped up three shows in Chicago and will next be taking the COWBOY CARTER tour to the greater New York area with five shows at Met Life Stadium. Between the Knicks making it to the conference finals and the Queen being in town, NYC is going to even more hype than usual. 

 

So much of my feed the last few weeks has been people sharing footage from Beyoncé’s concerts. And especially footage of her daughters, Blue and Rumi, since they both have parts to play on their mother’s stage. Blue more than Rumi, of course, because she is more experienced, but Rumi’s scene has been a major highlight and in particular it’s her joyful and innocent reactions to the crowd but also the spontaneity of both sisters reacting to each other. 

 

Beyoncé is known for total control but if there’s one thing that she cannot control or rehearse or practise the sh-t out of, it’s her children. And it’s through her children where we can get a better sense of who Beyoncé is. Here’s a clip, just a brief moment, that tells us something about who these babies are to each other. Note the expression on Blue when the choreographer requires her to bend down, but it means her hair slips down in front…and Rumi’s like, oh no girl, you are not blocking my face, LOL. 

Blue’s smirk! 

 

That’s pure big sister energy right there. It’s exasperation and it’s affection and it’s all love. Blue’s almost eyerolling the fact that she’s the one up there working and Rumi’s all like… get that out of my way! But she’s also amused by her kid sibling’s impulse to take care of her own need. OK, Rumi, don’t let me come between you and your public, haha. It’s familiar because it’s familial. And adorable. 

Beyoncé herself is a big sister and her little sister is also a performer. She understands this dynamic more than anyone else. And, no doubt, she’s creating as much space for them to find themselves in each other’s orbit the way she and Solange did in their youth…

 

Which Miss Tina, their mother, writes about in her book Matriarch. Duana wrote a wonderful piece about this for The Squawk, our Substack, that was published last week. Click here to subscribe and read it.

I wonder, in 30 years, what stories we’ll be hearing about Blue and Rumi – and who will be the one telling them. 

Attached: shots from the shows in Chicago. 

Yours in gossip, 

Lainey