By Yasmin Omar
You may know your ‘Brown Skin Girl’ from your ‘Broken-Hearted Girl’, your ‘Hello’ from your ‘Halo’; you may even think you are Queen of the BeyHive. Sorry to disappoint you, but that title belongs to my sister Leyla, she who burnished her fandom as a child with a Destiny’s Child HitClip – Gen Z, you don’t know what you’re missing – and has since seen Beyoncé live eight times, knows all of the singer’s uncredited backing vocals (Frank Ocean’s ‘Pink + White’??), owns swathes of official merch and dresses up as her at any fancy-dress opportunity. So, who better to discuss Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé with than her? Here, Leyla and I dig into Beyoncé’s cultural impact, creative direction and comedic cuts.
