Music
Beyonce Shines Spotlight on Team USA in Epic Olympics Opening Ceremony Video
Beyonce, alongside other music legends like Lady Gaga and Celine Dion, helped kick off the 2024 Paris Olympics in style. Instead of a live performance, Beyoncé created a powerful intro video for Team USA that is sure to give viewers goosebumps. “We’ve got superstars and we’ve got legends. We’ve got big dreamers who fought their whole lives to get here. Who gave up everything for one shot, and made it,” Beyoncé declares. The video features iconic athletes such as LeBron James, Simone Biles, Katie Ledecky, Caeleb Dressel, and Sha’Carri Richardson.
The Olympics are unlike any other sporting event, uniting the globe every four years to celebrate athletic excellence and national pride. From July 26 to August 11, the world watches as the best athletes compete at the highest level, and this year, the opening ceremony received an unforgettable boost from none other than Beyoncé.
Draped in a stunning one-piece bathing suit in the colors of freedom, Beyoncé’s visual tribute is set to a rendition of her song “YA YA” from her Americana/country album, COWBOY CARTER. Her inspiring words and the powerful imagery get you hyped for the next 16 days of athletic feats. “America, give it up for Team USA, the very best of who we are. What a vision to behold. What a team to believe in. What a night to celebrate.”
What did you think of Beyoncé’s opening ceremony video for Team USA at the 2024 Paris Olympics? Do you think it was the best musical performance of the night? Are you excited about this year’s games? Which country are you cheering for? Who’s your favorite Olympic athlete, both current and all-time? We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts in the comments, and stay tuned to Honk Magazine for all the latest news on Beyoncé and everything happening in the world of sports and music.
Artist Spotlight
“Subterranean Homesick Blues” finds a new direction through Ghost of Panama
Rearranging a song that carries six decades of cultural weight is a creative challenge, but Ghost of Panama approaches “Subterranean Homesick Blues” with clear purpose. The rock band radically reworks Bob Dylan’s counter-culture hit, reshaping its identity while keeping its rebellious spirit. It’s a tribute to musical heritage and a statement of artistic independence all in one.
This new interpretation is very much shaped by the production, made at Ghost of Panama’s home studio in West London. The setting allows an intimate approach to reinterpreting a familiar song and lets the group engage directly with the material, taking it in a new artistic direction.
“Subterranean Homesick Blues” centers on the tension between conservation and transformation. Ghost of Panama is true to the song’s rebellious spirit without adding to its legacy, and this approach gives the release an adventurous feel, grounded in countercultural energy but driven by a desire to see what the composition can become in a different musical context.
Their version of this 60-year-old classic shows that respecting a song’s history can also mean breaking the rules and finding new ways to express its spirit. Fundamentally, “Subterranean Homesick Blues” presents Ghost of Panama as artists who want to engage with the past without being tied to it. The release’s strongest identity is a familiar heritage reimagined through a singularly forward-looking creative vision.
Artist Spotlight
“NO MORE” by Amanda Holley connects healing, awakening, and survival
“NO MORE“ carries that kind of emotional weight, and some songs feel like they come from lived experience but reach for something bigger. Amanda Holley blends R&B and soul, turning a lifetime of survival into a vision of healing, awakening, and the determination to move beyond what caused the pain.
“NO MORE“ is a healing anthem for people who have gone through bad experiences and reached a place of higher awareness, but it’s also an emotionally charged protest. The duality is introspective and outward-looking at the same time, turning personal survival into a broader declaration that some experiences, conditions, or cycles should end.
Holley had a premonition of the song six months before the world went into global shutdown. In the vocal booth, working out melodies with her collaborators, she pictured people in the streets. Those images were hard to imagine at the time, but subsequent events would make them painfully familiar.
“NO MORE“ is given a particularly contemplative underpinning by the context. The identity of R&B and soul leaves room for emotion. The song’s themes link survival, awakening, resistance, and the need for change. Amanda Holley is an artist using music to process personal endurance and a broader sense of social awakening. It’s got a complicated significance, and its release feels like a glimpse of a moment when personal intuition and public reality collided in an unexpected way.
Photo Credit: Yulia Shusharina
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