Well, here we go. Beyoncé might want to saddle up that golden horse of hers because this Cowboy Carter circus just keeps getting wilder, and not in a way that’ll win her any country points.
Turns out that while Queen Bey was busy riding mechanical bulls and flexing her “country” era for sold-out stadiums, her crew left some pretty priceless cargo sitting in the back of a Jeep Wagoneer in Atlanta. Atlanta police say her choreographer and dancer filed the report after someone smashed the trunk window and helped themselves to two suitcases stuffed with unreleased music, watermarked tracks, future setlists, and her precious Cowboy Carter Tour show plans.
So while the Beehive’s out here defending every last neon boot-scootin’ moment as “real country,” the actual brains behind the tour were getting looted in a parking lot like they’d never heard of a lock. Amateur hour. If you’re going to try to roll into the genre that gave us Outlaw country, Johnny Cash’s prison gigs, and George Strait playing rodeo stages without losing a note, at least don’t leave the next album sitting in a trunk next to your AirPods and sunglasses.
And look, don’t get it twisted, theft is theft, and no one wants their stuff stolen. But the irony of a pop megastar who dropped Cowboy Carter to show how “country” she is, now having to chase down AirPods pings to track a stolen hard drive? You can’t write it better. Meanwhile, her PR team is out here telling folks the prop car she flies around in was tilting mid-air in Houston just a few weeks ago. Maybe the universe is trying to say something.
