Jay-Z & Beyonce “Young Forever (Coachella 2010)”
We’ve never really been all that moved by “Young Forever”. Jay’s hip-hop-ization of the Alphaville ’80′s pop standard “Forever Young” mostly comes across as bland and unnecessary, unless you’re a high school senior searching for a theme song for this year’s prom that is.
Seeing that same record brought to life on the Coachella 2010 stage with a tired-sounding Jay and surprise guest Beyonce subbing in for Mr. Hudson on hook duties though, completely changes our tune.
Mrs. Carter doing her soul-pop diva thing on the intro is amazing unto itself, her dramatic trills, no matter how annoying they might be on her own records, bringing about chills when wrapped around lyrics like “Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?”. But even more special is peeping the usually walled-off superstar couple interacting on the stage, with Be swaying and miming along to her man’s lyrics and Jay shooting giggles back in her direction.
Yeah, we’ll still probably immediately flip the station the second “Young Forever” pops up on the radio, but this performance is one we’ll surely be re-visiting again and again.
This shit is so boring and over rated.
@karma -
you obviously don’t care what the song means.. lol
@ karma –
And you were not at Coachella. Cause this shit was amazing. Huge amounts of fireworks, at the perfect time in the show, palm trees in the back ground, wind blowing perfectly, crowd vibin, really words could not describe it.
Could not have been better time and in is NO way under rated.
@mspzoom – AGREED
The crowd went noots when she came out on stage. I have a couple videos that I will post on my site(PanAndPaans.com) as soon as my body recovers. I’ve got the 1 minute countdown with We Run This Town and couple others.
I was at Coachella and I heard not a peep because I was blowing it up with Deadmau5 in the Sahara tent. Jay-Z is awesome and all but Beyonce is severely overrated. If she didn’t look as hot as she does she would just be another pop fad.
@Richard
of all the great shows jay z was on the bottom. deadmua5 was awesome, you are correct.
“unless you’re a high school senior searching for a theme song for this year’s prom that is. ”
HAHAHAH THIS IS EFFIN SPOT ON!
my grad class had no other song to choose from besides this one.. and i wasn’t surprised but i don’t mind it though.
except it isn’t the theme of the prom its the theme song for the slideshow they show us when were at convocation