Beyonce at Glasto: not everyone is crazy in love

The closing act on Glastonbury's main stage last night was historic in at least one sense of the word: Beyonce became the first woman in over 20 years to headline the world-famous festival. "I always wanted to be a rock star and tonight we are all rock stars," she told the audience early on.
 
Reviews for her extravagant 90-minute set were mostly glowing. The Guardian's Alexis Petridis called the opening "gobsmacking", writing that apart from a "confusing" appearance from musician Tricky, "she never put a foot wrong".
 
Just as questions were raised when her husband, rapper Jay-Z, was booked for Glastonbury in 2008, many wondered whether the pop star would work at the "rock" festival. But Neil McCormick at the Daily Telegraph writes that she has "a band to match the best, a ripe horn section and a voice capable of pyrotechnical twists and turns to match any lead guitar solo."
 
NME's Tim Chester praised her decision to mix up her well-known booty-shaking singles (Single Ladies, Crazy in Love) and Destiny's Child hits (Say My Name, Survivor) with a few more left-field covers, including Kings of Leon's Sex on Fire and Alanis Morissette's You Oughta Know.
 
The performance dipped a bit when she did previously unheard tracks from her new album, Chester writes, but was "mostly electric".
 
The Sun called her set an "epic climax" to Glastonbury, while the Daily Mail said it was "ground-breaking".
 
Not everyone was so impressed, however. One Twitter user noted that "99 per cent of people tweeting about Glastonbury are talking about how good Beyonce looks, not how bad she sounds. Welcome to modern music!"
 
Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe didn't seem too impressed either. During yesterday's BBC coverage of the Somerset festival, BBC 6 Music's Lauren Laverne waxed lyrical over how Beyonce was a great performer who fitted into Glastonbury perfectly.
 
But when she asked Lowe for his thoughts, he merely burst into laughter, and introduced the next act to be shown on TV. ·