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Back To Business: Beyoncé wows at comeback show in Atlantic City

by Claire Ward-Beveridge

Bey is back.

And since she’s on my list of performers-that-if-I-don’t-see-before-I-die-my-life-will-have-been-all-for-nought, I’m just going to imagine that I was there, snuggled in between the Obama girls, front row centre.

Her four-night run of shows this past weekend at the Revel Resort — New Jersey’s new multi-billion dollar entertainment centre — are the result of months of hard work and preparation, as evidenced on her website. As can be expected of Queen B, she did not disappoint.

Saturday’s installment kicked off a little after 10:00 pm with her dance-hit “End of Time,” off of 4, and saw her in fine, wind-blown, gleaming form, complete with requisite choreography and sequins aplenty.

She continued to tear through much of her back catalog in full length and snippet-form, as well as tossing in a few covers, such as “Iris” by the Goo-Goo Dolls (really?!), along with Lauren Hill’s “Ex-Factor,” and “I Will Always Love you” -– which she tacked onto the beginning of her emotional ballad “Halo,” no doubt inspiring a few thousand collective wistful moments of sentimentality.

To close the show, Beyoncé whipped out the gargantuan hit “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” and assured the audience that she’s no average popstar-turned-mother mounting a comeback. As she sings in “Run The World (Girls)” (which she also performed that night, of course), Beyoncé is “smart enough to make these millions, strong enough to bear the children — and get back to business.” And back you are, girl.