The Beyhive has an unparalleled amount of control over what goes viral these days and they flexed their muscles on Friday, reviving a video from 2013 featuring NFL stars stanning hard over Beyoncé and her biggest hits.
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— BEYVIBES (@bbeyvibes) January 9, 2020
Former NFL stars like Eric Berry, Jason Witten, Duane Brown and Kyle Rudolph shared their favorite Beyoncé tracks and a few players even showcased their vocal skills.
The resurfaced video was an NFL Films production from 2013 when Beyoncé performed during the Super Bowl Halftime Show in New Orleans.
"She has so many different hits, whether its love songs or dancing songs. I'm just mad we can't watch the halftime show," said wide receiver Torrey Smith.
"Single Ladies," "1+1," "Freakum Dress," "Party," "Cater 2 U," "Dance For You," "Check Up On It" and "Upgrade U" were all mentioned as some of the athletes' favorite songs.
The Grammy-winning superstar has performed at the Super Bowl twice already, once in 2013 and again in 2016. The 2013 performance is now considered by fans and music critics as one of the greatest Super Bowl Halftime shows ever. The halftime show was part of the second most-watched performance in the NFL's history, racking up an astounding 110.8 million viewers.
The show received three nominations for the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards that year and was particularly momentous for Twitter. Her performance managed to generate an unheard of 268,000 tweets per minute, one of the highest ever.
"For 12 or so minutes at the center of the Superdome field on Sunday night, she balanced explosions and humanity, imperiousness with warmth, an arena-ready sense of scale with a microscopic approach to the details of her vocals. Amid all the loudness were small things to indicate Beyoncé was answering her skeptics, quietly but effectively," wrote New York Times music critic Jon Caramanica.
"What’s more, she filled the television screen, a human pneumatic drill of intensity, constantly bouncing and whirring. This is part of what set her apart from some past performers, whose songs were big enough, but whose attitude and presentation weren’t. At the beginning of 'Crazy in Love,' she dropped to one knee, then sprawled on her back, continuing her choreography for the cameras in the sky," he added.
Her 2016 performance was similarly viewed as groundbreaking by critics and fans. The Michael Jackson inspiration and political message of the costumes for the show solidified the diva as one of the world's most notable performers.
"In short, Beyoncé dominated the show the minute she stepped onto the field, from her knowing smirks during meticulously choreographed dances to the moment when she joined Coldplay and Mars onstage to make sure everyone knew she could smoke them while sharing the screen. More crucially, she transformed one of the biggest events in sports, corporate synergy, and entertainment into a distinctly political act," Vox's Caroline Framke said.
Beyoncé also performed a beautiful rendition of the national anthem for the Super Bowl in her hometown of Houston in 2004.
We can only hope that we get to see Bey back on the stage for halftime again.