The Fader: 18 Great Moments In Beyoncé Television !
Destiny’s Child, “No No No Pt. 2” (Live at MTV Europe, 1999)
High Point: Parachute pants dance break at 2:21.
Best YouTube comment: “I love La’Toya!! she is sooooo Beautiful!! Omg!! She got beyonce beat to me!”
Destiny’s Child, “Bills Bills Bills” (MTV Jam in the Park London, 2001)
High Point: Crowd singalong at 3:53.
Best YouTube Comment: “Michelle is in the corner gettin it!! GO CHELLE!!”
Destiny’s Child, “Emotion/ When the Wrong One Loves You Right” (Celine Dion’s A New Day Has Come Special, 2002)
High Point: Celine reacts to Beyonce’s vocal run with a wrist and head shake at 1:55.
Best YouTube Comment: “They gave Celine most of Michelle’s parts! POOR MICHELLE!
Beyonce and Jay-Z, “03 Bonnie and Clyde” (Top of the Pops, 2003)
High Point:: Off-mic, impromptu harmonizing while Jay raps about shopping at 1:32.
Best YouTube Comment: “Beyonce stage presence is wilder when Jay z is around, she looks to him for his rugged energy, jay does not have any tattoos except for the one on his finger representing his love for Beyonce i love them together they are a force to be reckeoned with.”
Destiny’s Child, “Lose My Breath” (Radio Music Awards, 2004)
High Point: Furry intro solo at 0:22.
Best Youtube Comment: “I LOVED THEIR ENERGY BUT REALLY MICHELLE YOU CANT WAIT FOR B AND KELLY TO WALK UP THE STAIRS LOL IT WAS CUTE THO …….. THAT LIL WIGGLE”
Destiny’s Child, “Say My Name/Independent Women/Survivor” (World Music Awards, 2005)
High Point: Vocal battle with Michelle and Kelly from 3:37-3:50.
Best YouTube comment: “What is this wig on Michelle’s head… wtf.”
Destiny’s Child, “Cater 2 U” (Good Morning America, 2008)
High Point: Beyonce breaks out of her chair to thump her chest and yelp, “I don’t care what my mama say! Daddy say! No no no nooo!” at 3:26.
Best YouTube Comment: “michelle looked at her like bitch you aint do that durin rehersal!!”
“The Star-Spangled Banner” (“Dangerously in Love” (Grammys, 2004)
High Point: A nine-second, eyes-closed note followed by a big gulp of air at 3:38.
Best YouTube Comment: “Beyonce looks so beautiful here and its amazing that she sang that entire song with bird seed in her hand lol”
“Ring the Alarm” (MTV Video Music Awards, 2006)
High Point: Backwards, double-arm cop-slap at 1:53.
Best YouTube comment: “Was that break down an homage to Janet???? I think so!!”
“Listen” (Oprah, 2006)
High Point: Jamie Foxx’s expression toward Oprah at 3:23.
Best YouTube comment: “YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSS*SSSS MA’AM. BEYONCE SHUT THAT **** DOWN AND SAID “EAT THE DAMN DUST HATERS” LAAAAWD HAM MERCY. Dear Beyonce, clint eastwood or anyone working on the a star is born movie. WE WANT BALLADS LIKE THIS FOR THE SOUNDTRACK. I miss watching BEY shut it down like this.”
“Single Ladies” (The Tyra Banks Show, 2008)
High Point: Pointer finger into the sky, chased with a smile, chased with Tyra clapping in time at 2:50.
Best YouTube Comment: “I WISH YOU ALL WOULD SHUT THE **** UP WITH THE LIP SINGING THING.. WATCH EVERY PERFORMANCE OF SINGLE LADIES AT ELLEN AT THE AMAS ANYWHERE AND SHE NEVER SINGS THAT PART ‘delivers me’ EVER ITS HER BACKGROUND SINGER.”
“Single Ladies” (“Halo” (NAACP Image Awards, 2009)
High Point: Possible tears at 1:29.
Best YouTube Comment: “was this song for obama?”
“If I Was a Boy/You Oughta Know” (Grammys, 2010)
High Point: Carefully placed transitional headbanging at 4:45.
Best YouTube Comment: “2009 – Beyoncés year, 2010 – Lady Gagas year, 2011 – Adeles year, 2012 – Rihannas year, 2013 – Beyoncés year again <3"
“The Star-Spangled Banner” (Super Bowl XXXVIII, 2004)
High Point: Extra-emphatic OOOOHHHooohhhOooah! sayyy does that at 1:58.
Best YouTube Comment: “The inauguration was a more formal event she couldn’t add extra sounds like she did here to make it better.”
“1+1″ (The View, 2011)
High Point: Infinite layers of MAKE LOVE! at 3:48.
Best YouTube Comment: “She said Algeba because in the song she says she doesn’t know much about it! Goofy”
“Countdown” (Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, 2011)
High Point: Rodeo grind at 1:40.
Best YouTube Comment: “And she was pregnant… *___*”
