Beyoncé has quietly edited her Cowboy Carter tour visuals to remove a cheeky nod to Las Vegas’ most iconic new venue, following a cease and desist from the Sphere’s owners.
Originally, Queen Bey’s interlude featured her towering over the Vegas skyline, plucking the Sphere from the Strip like a curious bauble and carrying it away. But during the latest stop on her Cowboy Carter run, the video was swapped — this time showing Allegiant Stadium, where she’s set to perform in July. The update was shared online by Parkwood Entertainment with a not-so-subtle caption: “What happens in Vegas starts with a BANG.”
Beyoncé has replaced the alleged Sphere reference in her COWBOY CARTER Tour visuals to Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium (where she is actually performing) after the owner of The Sphere sent her a cease-and-desist claiming “impermissible use and violation.” pic.twitter.com/zgHPeZwe4i
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According to Billboard and New York Post, the change came after Sphere Entertainment Group fired off a cease and desist to Beyoncé’s team, accusing them of using imagery of the venue “without permission” and claiming it could mislead fans into thinking she was set for a Sphere residency.
In the letter, the company points out that the visual depicts Beyoncé — “many orders of magnitude larger than the Sphere” — snatching up the structure, which allegedly fuelled “significant speculation” about a possible future Vegas run.
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A source told Billboard that the visual upset James Dolan, CEO of Sphere Entertainment, who tried to negotiate for Beyoncé to perform at the Sphere in the past. Instead, she’ll perform at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium on July 25th and 26th.
“It has recently come to SEG’s attention that a Cowboy Carter tour interlude video contains the unauthorised use of SEG’s intellectual property,” the letter reads. “SEG is sure that multiple aspects of the interlude video, including other brands, clips and music, were duly cleared by the tour with rights permissions from the rights holders whose works were used in the video, as is common practice. SEG, however, was never asked, and the prominent appearance and manipulation of SEG’s Sphere venue in the video is unauthorised.”
