Beyonce Slays The VMAs, Twitter

Beyonce performed a 16 minute long medley of the Lemonade album, and when she was finished, Twitter had passed into the afterlife.

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The VMAs always seem to have one moment that brings down the house. In 1984 it was Madonna. It was Madonna again, for several more years after it, spanning all the way until 2003, with a few others in between. Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Prince, Britney. Two years ago, Beyonce brought down the house with a 16 minute medley of her Beyonce album that seemed to be designed to prove she could, if nothing else.

Tonight, she topped that again. This is the second 16 minute medley that Beyonce has graced the VMAs stage with, and by the fifth song it began to feel like she might actually do the entire album before she was through. Sadly she did not. But it didn’t matter. But the time “Formation” concluded with a stunning image of women’s bodies forming the circle-and-cross sign for “female,” the entirety of Twitter had died from overload.

The video is finally up:

A sampling from Twitter:

The use of women’s bodies to form images was a sample of 1930s choreography. Seeing them laid out….in FORMATION… was everything.

Everyone after that performance. Even her fellow performers:

It’s because no one will remember Ariana’s Soul Cycle performance after that.

Did we mention she broke a camera?

Pity the camera.

We imagine the convo for this number went something like this:

Next time you hear Beyonce is performing at the VMAs, get clean underwear ready.

We will.

Actually, Britney was next. Poor thing wasn’t bad, but one has to wonder who at MTV hates her enough to put her on directly following (and with only one commercial break between them, it was really directly following) that.

Oh and by the way, Beyonce did in fact then go on to break the record this evening for most VMA wins by any artist in history.  Because of course she did. By the time the evening ended, she had 21 wins to her name over the course of her career, with the recorded breaking moonman coming to her for best female video. The previous record holder with 20 wins? Madonna.

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Sorry Madge. Crown is passed. Beyonce rules supreme.