Beyoncé kicked off her "Cowboy Carter" tour in Los Angeles, and it is a bold blend of country music, political symbolism and cultural reclamation.

In true Queen Bey fashion, the singer declared on one of her tour T-shirts, “This is not a country show. This is a Beyoncé show.” The Cowboy Carter Tour lives up to that promise while still proving that she’s always been country, incorporating old hits and twangy twists with the genre-blurring highlights of Cowboy Carter.

Beyoncé soared across SoFi Stadium in a giant neon horseshoe, and then again in a red convertible Cadillac. She mounted and rode a gleaming, mechanical golden bull — all the while belting tunes from Cowboy Carter and her decades-spanning discography.