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.

The global “Cowboy Carter” tour kicked off in Los Angeles on Monday, and fans turned out in their western best.