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Of all the great things about television, the greatest is that it’s on every single day. TV history is being made, day in and day out, in ways big and small. In an effort to better appreciate this history, we’re taking a look back, every day, at one particular TV milestone.
IMPORTANT DATE IN TV HISTORY: September 4, 1981
WHY IT’S IMPORTANT: Nobody needs to tell you why Beyoncé is important. What I’m here to talk about is Beyoncé on TV. While her musical achievements are obviously phenomenal, and her contributions to film — have you seen Obsessed? You should see Obsessed — have been chronicled as well, I want to talk about her best TV moments. Starting with the most important …
106 & Park, November 15, 2004
Destiny’s Child showed up to BET’s live music show in the fall of 2004 to perform their new single “Soldier.” Michelle Williams flat-out fell down. Beyoncé (and Kelly, but we’re talking about Beyoncé here) just kept right on dancing. There is no better moment captured on video.
MTV Video Music Awards, August 28, 2011
Beyonce announced her pregnancy, onstage, in stretchy tuxedo pants. Pregnancy panels never looked to glamorous.
Super Bowl XLVII, February 3, 2013
You can keep your Left Shark, your Right Shark, and all your Bruno Marses. Beyoncé delivered the biggest Super Bowl halftime show of all time.
Life Is But a Dream, February 16, 2013
Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s half-intimate, half-calculated HBO documentary is all fascinating as a portrait of how real people do (and don’t) exist within the bubble of superstardom.
Carmen: A Hip Hopera, May 8, 2001
This is obviously Beyoncé and Mekhi Phifer in an MTV-produced adaptation of the opera Carmen. Happy birthday, Beyoncé. Sing some selections from Carmen: A Hip Hopera today.
Joe Reid (@joereid) is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn. You can find him leaving flowers for Mrs. Landingham at the corner of 18th and Potomac.
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