For most Americans, it’s merely the Friday before Labor Day weekend, a dull smattering of hours that stands between them and a hard-won three days off.But for some, it’s Bey Day.
Beyoncé, America’s luminous sphinx of a superstar, turned 34 years old, and her fans’ enthusiasm around the event falls somewhere between birthday celebration and national holiday.
Beyoncé Knowles? The surname seems a bit extraneous and awkward now, like dangling a “Ciccone” after Madonna, or a “Nelson” after Prince. To her fans, many of them denizens of the BeyHive, she is simply referred to as Queen. To them, she is the physical embodiment of female power, mother of music, mother of style — or, in keeping with popular Internet parlance, she’s just “mom.”
Beyoncé uses few words to respond to the adoration. She has not granted a public interview in months (this month’s Vogue cover story is more like a “think piece,” its Pulitzer-winning writer told
She prefers instead to lead her devoted following by aesthetic example on Instagram — over one million people liked a photo of her boating with her daughter — and on her website. Additional information is carefully doled out and rationed, usually transmitted through finely curated tidbits of praise.
To celebrate her birthday, her friends and family created a playlist of songs that reminded them of her. The song “Yellow” by Coldplay reminds her husband, Jay Z, of their vacations. “Part of Your World,” a song from “The Little Mermaid,” is a favorite of her daughter, Blue Ivy. That’s enough information for now. (Oh, and also, she got bangs.)
Some fans also paid tribute by posting photos, videos and GIFs that span Beyoncé’s decade-plus time as a superstar. Here are just a few of the most popular eras of Queen Bey’s reign, plucked from the #BeyDay archives:
Baby Beyoncé
On Instagram and Twitter, fans seized the opportunity to celebrate the blessed birth by sharing a baby photo that Beyoncé had previously posted (with only the word “throwback”) on her website.
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