In a show that packed 36 songs into nearly 3 hours, the singer focused on her 2024 country and western album ‘Cowboy Carter’ with a earlier hits scattered through the set.

Beyoncé opened her Cowboy Carter world tour Monday night with the first of five shows at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium: a characteristically complicated pop spectacle that framed Black creativity as a wellspring — perhaps the wellspring — of American culture.

Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter tour kicked off in L.A. last night. Here’s everything to know before the show comes to MetLife stadium at the end of May.