No matter how killer the spread you laid out for your Super Bowl LX experience was, you can rest assured that Beyoncé‘s was several levels above it. We know this because on Monday (Feb. 16) Queen Bey posted an Instagram reel featuring photos from her private suite at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. on Feb. 8, where the Seattle Seahawks dismantled the New England Patriots 29-13.
Beyoncé wasn’t spotted during the game and was not one of the many special guests Bad Bunny brought out during his inclusive, celebratory halftime set. But the series of pics proved that Bey lived it up and joined Benito in paying tribute to his Puerto Rican heritage.
The series of snaps opens with the singer pretending to chat on an old-fashioned rotary dial phone while wearing a brown animal-print coat with leather and feather accents. The second slide is a stop-motion series of snaps in which Bey smokes a stogie in front of the suite’s window, followed by one in which she uncovers a football from underneath a golden room service food dome. The fourth slide finds Bey seated at a desk with a cheeseburger on a golden tray and mini American and Puerto Rican flags flying in the foreground.
The singer also strikes some fashionable poses around the suite, takes a bite of the burger, lounges on the suite’s bed, poses on the balcony, checks her ‘fit in the mirror and includes a still life-like image of the stubbed-out stogie, the golden room service set and the two flags laying side-by-side on the desk. Interestingly, Bey chose to highlight an older version of the P.R. flag, which has a lighter blue triangle on it, versus the official, darker blue version adopted in 1952 when it officially became a commonwealth of the U.S.
The lighter blue version, which is preferred by citizens who support a drive for the island’s independence, was also carried by Benito during his halftime set, paying homage to the original 1895 design.
In another set of photos, the Cowboy Carter star shows off her full brown leather coat and matching hat, peers through the suite’s peephole and holds up a fortune cookie fortune that reads: “Your team’s Super Bowl dreams are looking bright.” She also provided her followers with a suite’s-eye view of the America 250 placard display in the seats at Levi’s Stadium, included a brief clip of the famous dancing bushes from Benito’s show and a snap with hubby Jay-Z.
The second set also featured a snap of Beyoncé digging into a yummy-looking desert and a black and white shot of the unifying message on the Jumbotron at the end of Bad Bunny’s set reading, “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.”