When Beyoncé sang the American national anthem on the first night of her London Cowboy Carter tour dates, I instinctively placed my cowboy hat over my heart, unsure whether I was pledging allegiance to the US flag or Beyoncé herself.

Rumours of poor ticket sales have plagued Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour, and prices have been slashed in a bid to get bums on seats. Whatever her team did, it worked – there was barely room to dance as a sea of clacking fans in cowboy hats invaded Tottenham Hotspurs’ home ground for the first of her six London shows.