You know our collective hearts stopped on Monday when reports started circulating that the iconic Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, is gravely ill and apparently in hospice care.

Well, we can’t say we didn’t see this coming; Beyoncé’s been giving us head-to-toe logo looks for years—most recently in all-custom Gucci for her On the Run II tour and in body-conscious MCM and Burberry during her designer-laden “Apeshit” video; both alongside husband and collaborator Jay-Z.

It’s the last #WomanCrushWednesday in July, and Beyoncé—and her husband—kick off the American leg of her On The Run II (OTRII) tour tonight in Cleveland, Ohio. Since we know many of our American readers have been clutching their tickets in breathless anticipation since the tour kicked off last month in Europe, we…

Updated: Thursday, July 12, at 9:45 p.m. EDT: As promised, we’re back with details: the color-blocked blouse Bey was rocking is from French fashion house Céline and the studded denim cutoffs are from Coal N’ Terry Vintage, creators of her Beychella cutoffs. The red cat-eyed sunglasses are from Illesteva.

Here’s what I’m doing on my summer vacation: writing hundreds of posts for The Glow Up, maybe fitting in a trip or two to midwestern meccas in Wisconsin, Minnesota or Iowa to catch up with the fam, catching a few free concerts in the park in Chicago and intermittently catching a few rays at my building’s pool or while…

How’s this for #MotivationMonday: Clearly, being on the seemingly nonstop On the Run II tour is no excuse for not keeping it fresh for the ‘gram, because Bey blessed the hive with a little on-the-go glamour this weekend, en route to her Warsaw, Poland tour stop.

Was it fact or fiction? Did Jay-Z and Beyoncé renew their vows, as filmed footage from their On the Run II Tour suggests? In a blink-and-you-might-miss-it clip, we see the Carters clearly in wedding mode, as their twins (or stand-ins for their twins) are nearby.

I’m not screaming, you’re screaming.

Beyoncé and her husband, rapper Jay-Z, kicked off their highly anticipated OTR II Tour at Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, on Wednesday. Everyone was ready.

Allow me, a Beyoncé and Jay-Z expert, to break down the goddamn saga that was Bey and Jay’s On the Run II Tour announcement: At the beginning of this month, whoever runs Queen B’s Ticketmaster and Facebook pages made a “mistake” (that’s music industry for “caused purposeful chaos”) when a Philadelphia concert date for…