Is Beyoncé about to get in “formation” permanently on the Strip?
According to the good folks over at LoveBScott, The Queen Bey is reportedly planning to return to Las Vegas in 2020 for a new residency. An official announcement is expected in the first half of the year, but according to the report, the residency will “make Beyoncé the highest-paid entertainer in the city.”
This won’t be Bey’s first Vegas residency. In 2009, she performed a series of shows at Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas and released a live album, I Am… Yours: An Intimate Performance at Wynn Las Vegas, featuring recordings from the Vegas stint.
Fans are having a hard time believing that the “Lemonade” singer would agree to a Vegas residency before dropping another album and doing another world tour. One fan tweeted, “He can miss me with that fabricated story. If Beyoncé wanted to do a Vegas residency, it would have happened back in the I am Sasha fierce era, when she was approached for it. Certainly not now, she’s enjoying her stadium status.”
However, other fans argued that she is a mother-of-three and would be able to enjoy stability in her family if she does agree to a Vegas residency. “She’s a mother of 3, she’s nearly her 40’s… the most logical thing for her and her family is to still perform every day but also taking care of her kids and her body,” one fan said.
However you may look at it, Beyoncé won’t be the only megastar on the Strip. Janet Jackson, Lady Gaga, Mariah Carey, Shania Twain, and Gwen Stefani all currently have residencies in Vegas so she’s certainly in good company. What do you guys think? Would you be here for Bey setting up shop in Vegas? Do you believe it? Check out some of the reactions below:
If Beyoncé announces a Vegas residency…y’all will be there.
If Beyoncé announces another tour…y’all will be there.
What have we learned today? Regardless, YALL will be there. pic.twitter.com/fwiM7tU7gi
— Howie (@whal510) December 7, 2019
I called this shit out in 2014-2015, Beyoncé will soon do a residency and a fan dead came out to me and said “Beyoncé would NEVER, Vegas is for washed up bitches like your girl Britney!” EL-OH-EL !!!! https://t.co/XLW4p0j8yi
— #Him (@davidd_jason) December 7, 2019
Chile! Bscott has NEVER had a Beyoncé exclusive. He can miss me with that fabricated story. If Beyoncé wanted to do a Vegas Residency, it would happened back in the I am Sasha fierce era, when she was approached for it. Certainly not now, she's enjoying her stadium status.
— Sir Parkwood (@Rocksteady00) December 7, 2019
Stan twitter is so ill-informed about the music industry and it shows. Artists do quick Vegas residencies all the time just to stadium tours later. And if Beyoncé gets offered 8 or 9 figures to do a residency why would she turn that down? Also she got 3 small children.
— hymen great 'til they gotta be great? (@laurenadinab) December 7, 2019
Actually “residencies” were made popular by Celine Dion and Toni Braxton bc they were both broke (Celine’s husband owed casinos and Toni went bankrupt) and Vegas was a last resort opportunity bc they couldn’t tour successfully.
Beyoncé won’t be doing such a thing.
— KingBeyHive (@KingBeyHive_) December 7, 2019
Imagine how much Beyoncé is going to charge us to see her in Vegas…. I hate her. I need a house. pic.twitter.com/AHUXQGtj4s
— TheGift4Lemonade (@HateTheseFools) December 7, 2019
Beyoncé’s really gonna make me spend my next student finance instalment on a holiday to Las Vegas huh
— Brandon Ellis (@parxdiso) December 7, 2019
Beyonce doing a Vegas residency in 2020 seems weird for someone still current and in the charts.
— MelishaKnows (@LaneMelisha) December 7, 2019