r/beyonce • u/BarBey_1981 • 22h ago
She Coming reference Analysis
Thanks to my toddler, I believe Beyonce is referencing "She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain." So I knew this song was about the rapture. But when I did some research, I learned this popular folk song is a rendition to the negro spiritual, "When the Chariot Comes." It is believed that it was code for the Underground Railroad. And the "she" is a reference to the Chariot. We have seen her driving a bus in the Amen visual during the tour and other vehicles in "I'm that Girl." She sings running through the river in "Riiverdance," which was a common method to escape to freedom during slavery. "She'll be coming around the mountain," originally being a negro spiritual falls in line to reclaiming our history and our culture. The rapture reference also makes sense for the transition to Renaissance and her singing lift off during the tour. Not to mention in the song, "When the Chariot Comes," it ends by she will take you through portals. We also see the imagery of portals in "I'm that Girl" visual.
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u/ilikecocktails RENAISSANCE 17h ago
I dunno, I think sometimes people look too hard at every little thing and find something in nothing.
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u/HoneyBeyBee 12h ago
This is this sub in a nutshell at this point
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u/trilla94 11h ago
I love Delulu Hive and I know it's all in good fun but sometimes it's just too much lmao
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u/Sad_hat20 11h ago
I’m ready to get flamed but it makes me want to leave this sub, I’m here for our mutual appreciation of beyonce not these daily manic conspiracy theories about hidden codes
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u/DrGlamhattan2020 7h ago
She uses a religious painting in the opulence Renaissance interlude that represents the Feast of the Ass which occurred on January 14th...
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u/BDashh 17h ago
Nah “she coming” is just a phrase. This is a gigantic stretch
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u/Bookpoop 11h ago
“She coming” was probably a play on the lyric “she gone”, I don’t think she says “she coming” in the album, so I assumed it meant “cowboy Carter” is about to assume lead persona for the performance. “She gone” means she’s back to Sasha for sweet honey bucking. The beep at the end was Beyoncé returning to her earthly body.
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u/lokomanlokoman 20h ago
If your theory is right, then the theory of her visual being a legit featured film can also be right because I can't think of her visual being anything less than 30 min or so.. like, from what I'm seeing, it gonna takes around 1hr 30 min- ish..
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u/BarBey_1981 19h ago
I am personally convinced that it is a film. There is some impatience in the hive, me included. There is a lot of connecting imagery in her previous films, black is King and lemonade, from her tours, performances, and music videos. I really think we are about to get Beyonce's life's work. I mean even a lot of the conversations we are having about Cowboy Carter started with Cadillac Records. And that was the first project she did with Parkwood. So I am thinking at least one film but maybe more to tie together a lot of plotlines.
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u/LastNamePancakes Bounce on that shit. Dance. 13h ago edited 10h ago
Y’all need to stop.
Y’all go off these cliffs and down in these worm holes looking for shit, or y’all take things you don’t understand or don’t have context of and try to reframe it into something you can relate to when a lot of times it’s nothing at all and if you would have just asked a Black American person what was going on or what was being said you would get a simple ass answer that solved everything., just her being a Black American woman from the South saying or doing things that are apart of everyday life in African American communtities across the country. If you all would just stop and consider that, and come ask if there’s a cultural significance you would likely get a simple answer that would save you the trouble.
Edited to appease u/cherryspritz 🙄
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u/Bitchdidiasku 12h ago
Yes because every black person will provide the same response. Shit at least the post was informative about something and Beyoncé definitely leaves Easter eggs even if this was a “reach” that’s what happens with analysis sometimes.
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u/LastNamePancakes Bounce on that shit. Dance. 11h ago
They won’t. Black people don’t come in one ethnicity or culture but 80-90% of the things that people in this sub go off the deep end searching for meaning in or producing theories around are references to things, phrases or activities that occurs daily without thought in black communities.
On that note, bitchdidiasku?
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u/imthewiseguy 8h ago
Like I saw one person saying that Beyoncé saying fifty-leven was a reference to something in the Renaissance visuals (the teaser she posted where she was running her fingers across deposit boxes and one of them was number 51)
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u/LastNamePancakes Bounce on that shit. Dance. 5h ago
She said “Looka Here” on one of the Cowboy Carter tracks and they was up in here posting links and posting pictures of folks talking about it was a call back to this person, or it was a not to such and such….
Chiiiiileee
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u/BarBey_1981 12h ago
I'm Black and I am not sure why you thought otherwise. You can enjoy the art simply how you want. That is what art is for. This is how I enjoy art. I am not going off the cliff with a simple Google search. Almost all art references other art. That is why we study literature. Beyonce references other works all the time. Cowboy Carter is full of historical context, so is Lemonade and Black is King. In Homecoming, she references multiple poets. Nothing Beyonce does is simple.
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u/LastNamePancakes Bounce on that shit. Dance. 11h ago
I never made an assumption as to what your race was. I also specified race in my point, but rather ethnicity. You being black doesn’t change what I said and what I said was meant to be a general statement based on my observations here and not aimed 100% at you.
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u/cherryspritz 11h ago
Damn this is such a dehumanizing response.
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u/rtimmor 8h ago
Right? Idk why everyone’s responding to this theory like this. I get that the overanalysis for tour dates and album drops are annoying, but this is just an artistic interpretation? Something that you could do in a high school english class????
What happened with that patriotism girl on tiktok is one thing, but this is a creative theory, I don’t understand
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u/Kikidikikidii 11h ago
As a Houstonian I can confirm “she comin” or “he comin” is a very common way for us to talk about ourselves especially in a performance aspect. Like we say it casually if we got that shit on. If we have something to show off. And it’s competitive in nature. Like I’m telling you to tuck your chain
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u/Beysus2 RENAISSANCE 14h ago
can y’all stop this over analyzing nonsense already ? not everything’s a reference or easter egg 💀
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u/BarBey_1981 12h ago
You clicked on the post that is labelled analysis. That is what the tags are for. 💀
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u/imthewiseguy 17h ago
Y’all want her to be Taylor Swift with the endless Easter eggs and it’s getting to the point where y’all are running yourselves ragged trying to find meaning in every single thing and it’s past delusion and full blown mental illness.
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u/JessLV702 12h ago
There was a trend before her performance #beyoncecoming #shecoming kind of like her reference "I'm back by popular demand "
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u/Sad_hat20 11h ago
These delusional analyses were entertaining at one point, now it feel like I’m on a schizophrenic forum
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u/ArticulateAvocado 11h ago
I'm not sure why folks are upset at another theory post. Maybe we're all on edge waiting for the 14th, but at least I learned something new today about this folk song.
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u/ElleBelle901 LEMONADE 11h ago
There’s on edge, then there’s… this. From what I’m gathering, OP is bordering on deifying Beyonce and/or comparing her to Harriet Tubman. Either way… no. This is embarrassing and makes it hard for the hive to beat the “delusional in real life” allegations.
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u/rtimmor 8h ago
I think they are saying that this could be used in some sort of feature film down the line as a theme, not that bey is literally saying that shes god and bringing the actual rapture.
We discussed the possibility of themes of aliens and brainwashing in the visuals for Renny, why can’t it be theorized that CC is bringing the change (rapture) that we see in Renaissance?
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u/Disastrous-Goat-5348 Honorary Beyhive 10h ago
I think this makes a lot of sense! I could totally see Beyoncé referencing something like this. I don't get what's with all of the negative comments here.
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u/cherryspritz 11h ago
I learned a lot through this post and I can totally see where you’re coming from here, I think you’re getting a lot of unnecessary hate in this here Beyhive chat.
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