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Watch 'The OverExplainer' React To Taylor Swift's Beyoncé-Inspired Performance

Maybe Kanye West shouldn't have let her finish a few years ago...
Watch 'The OverExplainer' React To Taylor Swift's Beyoncé-Inspired Performance
By Danielle Young · Updated December 6, 2020
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Taylor Swift opened the Billboard Music Awards this year alongside Brandon Urie for a very interesting performance of their hit single, “ME!”

And by interesting, I mean…a whitewashed version of Beyoncé’s very Black Coachella—ahem—Beychella performance, complete with a marching band.

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OK, so Queen Bey doesn’t own all marching bands, but doesn’t she?

Check out The OverExplainer‘s inaugural reaction video to Swift’s marching band-laced performance, and why I’m not here for it.

TOPICS:  beyoncé billboard music awards Coachella marching band taylor swift The OverExplainer