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Rumours of poor ticket sales have plagued Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour, and prices have been slashed in a bid to get bums on seats. Whatever her team did, it worked – there was barely room to dance as a sea of clacking fans in cowboy hats invaded Tottenham Hotspurs’ home ground for the first of her six London shows.

Queen Bey – as she has been crowned by her “beyhive” of fans – opened with the angelic “Ameriican Requiem”, both a lament about the state of modern-day America and a jab at those who argue she shouldn’t be making country music. The politics continued: the American national anthem swiftly followed – the Jimi Hendrix version, played at Woodstock in protest at the Vietnam War.

Then, it was party time. A stomping, stadium shaking rendition of “Ya Ya” saw Beyoncé run the length of her star-shaped stage, stopping only to set fire to a piano. Her audience tried to match her impossible vocal heights as she asked us to “say ya” over and over again.

It feels almost superfluous to say Beyoncé sounded incredible – but her vocal acrobatics shouldn’t be taken for granted. One minute she was rapping at breakneck speed to “Spaghettii”, the next, belting out some opera for murder ballad “Daughter”. Stripped of the theatrics – the flying horseshoes and fireworks – Beyoncé’s voice is a showstopper in and of itself.

There were seven “acts” to the Cowboy Carter tour, each signalled by a video playing out on the huge screens as Beyoncé changed into yet another glittering Wild West-inspired ensemble. But those who took these as a chance to run to the toilet missed out on the storytelling that weaves the acts together – we saw Beyoncé as the giant from 1958 horror film Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, as a gunslinging gambler, and naked atop an enormous alligator.

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Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter sticks two fingers up at the country music gatekeepers

But Beyoncé was not the only star. Her 13-year-old daughter Blue Ivy joined her mother on stage as one of her dancers, with fans screaming just as loudly for her as they did for the woman whose name was on the tickets. Blue blended in with the other dancers seamlessly and wowed when it was her turn to perform the “Deja Vu” dance – released in 2006, six years before she was born.

Beyoncé is fiercely private. But on stage, in front of (almost) 62,000 people, it was a different story. We were shown intimate home footage of her and her husband Jay-Z with their three children, and childhood tapes of a young Beyoncé practising her singing. Most touchingly, “Protector”, was sung not to the audience, but directly to Beyoncé’s youngest daughter, seven-year-old Rumi, who joined her mother on stage.

Much of the setlist comprised songs from Cowboy Carter, which shocked even Beyoncé by winning Album of the Year at the Grammys. There were some old favourites in there – “Irreplaceable”, “Love on Top”, “Single Ladies” “Crazy in Love” all got a look in as the rain began to fall. But with its American iconography, line dancing and drinking, this show was first and foremost a middle finger to those who thought Beyoncé the pop star could never be Beyoncé the country star.

Beyoncé is performing at Tottenham Hotspurs Stadium, London until 16 June

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