Beyoncé and Jay-Z Announce They’ll Hit the Road Together This Summer on a Joint Tour
Beyoncé is gifting the Beyhive with a tour this year, and she’s decided to let her husband tag along. The power couple that puts all other power couples to shame is officially embarking on a European and North American OTR II Tour this summer, according to Variety. They’ll kick things off in Cardiff, Wales, on June 6, hitting numerous cities before bringing their tour stateside, starting with Cleveland, Ohio, on July 25.
Queen Bey confirmed the tour on her Instagram Monday morning with a series of black-and-white photos and videos, including one featuring herself and Jay-Z on a motorcycle (complete with cow-skull accessory) and a video that has everything from a slow-mo Beyoncé hair flip to what looks like more raw, home video–style footage of the musical couple.
Of course, this isn’t the first time Beyoncé and Jay-Z have hit the road together; they did their last joint tour in 2014. The On the Run Tour even became an HBO special, so fans who couldn’t quite swing a ticket could still see the couple perform together.
Immediately post-Lemonade, it might have seemed as if we’d never get to see the pair on the same stage — or even the same room — again. After Beyoncé gave us some of the decade’s best anti-cheating anthems, her significant other all but confirmed his own infidelity was the inspiration for those tracks, rapping on last year’s 4:44, “I apologize, our love was one for the ages and I contained us / And if my children knew, I don’t even know what I would do / If they ain’t look at me the same, I would prolly die with all the shame / You did what with who? What good is a ménage à trois when you have a soulmate, you risked that for Blue?” But now, after the birth of their twins, Rumi and Sir, last summer, the couple seems stronger than ever. They’ve been open about how collaborating in the past has helped them get through bumps in their marriage. Jay-Z even revealed in an interview with T: The New York Times Style Magazine last fall that working on a collaborative album with his wife was “almost like a therapy session.”
If you want summer 2018 to be the summer all your Beyoncé-related dreams come true (or at least one of them), you might want to block off some time on Wednesday morning—as long as you’re an official member of the Beyhive. Beyhive and TIDAL subscribers in the U.S. can snag pre-sale tickets starting at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, according to a press release. Also, Citi cardmembers may purchase tickets beginning March 14 at noon through March 17 at 5 p.m. Otherwise, you’ll have to wait until March 19 to kick off your summer planning in truly epic way.
