She Coming reference

[u/BarBey_1981]

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.

[u/LastNamePancakes]

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 🙄

[u/Bitchdidiasku → u/LastNamePancakes]

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.

[u/LastNamePancakes → u/Bitchdidiasku]

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?

[u/imthewiseguy → u/LastNamePancakes]

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)

[u/LastNamePancakes → u/imthewiseguy]

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

[u/BarBey_1981 → u/LastNamePancakes]

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.

[u/LastNamePancakes → u/BarBey_1981]

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.

[u/cherryspritz → u/LastNamePancakes]

Damn this is such a dehumanizing response.

[u/rtimmor → u/cherryspritz]

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