Beyonce left a secret message at the MTV Video Music Awards. Photo / AP
Beyonce left a secret message at the MTV Video Music Awards. Photo / AP
For anyone (everyone) too busy being mesmerised by Beyonce's show-stealing performance during Monday's MTV Music Video Awards, there's every chance you might have missed a powerful political message in her set.
We say performance, but what Bey delivered was pretty much a mini-concert - a jaw-dropping medley of hits fromher visual album, Lemonade, that still has all of social media talking.
Beyonce performs onstage during the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards. Photo / Getty Images
After serving up fierce renditions of hit singles, Pray You Catch Me, Hold Up, Don't Hurt Yourself, and Sorry, flanked by her body paint-adorned backup dancers, the reigning queen finished with the very last track on the album - Formation.
The subtle, yet unmistakeable feminist message became evident at the very end, when her dancers arranged themselves on the stage, forming a Venus symbol - the universal symbol for women.
Fans who picked up on the Venus symbol commented that it was the perfect close to Formation, a song celebrating black womanhood.
Factor in the bold statement she made on the red carpet about Black Lives Matter, along with her record-setting eight wins (including video of the year for Formation), and it's fair to say Beyonce WAS the VMAs this year.
