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"1. Expectation: You and your friends will go shopping before the concert and buy your best outfits ever, and you will look amazing. Reality: Twenty thousand other women did the same thing, so frankly, you look a little underdressed. But you don&amp;#039;t really mind, because even going the bathroom is a spectacle.  2. Expectation: You give yourself a small budget for how much to spend on merchandise at the concert so you still have money for necessities like groceries and rent. Reality: You find at least three Beyonc\u00E9-branded items you absolutely cannot live without and before you know it have somehow dropped $200 on a tote bag, keychain, and tank top. You will then get compliments on said tank top for the rest of your life, so temporary bankruptcy will have been worth it. 3. Expectation: You&amp;#039;ll spend a maximum of $100 on tickets, because you&amp;#039;re sensible about your hard-earned, independently earned money and thus don&amp;#039;t mind sitting in the nosebleed seats. Reality: When the moment of Ticketmaster truth arrives, the cheap seats will be sold out and you&amp;#039;ll select the $250 tickets like it&amp;#039;s nothing. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s for Beyonc\u00E9,&amp;quot; you&amp;#039;ll whisper to yourself while blinking back tears. &amp;quot;She really loves me.&amp;quot;  4. Expectation: Beyonc\u00E9 will falter a little bit on the four key changes in &amp;quot;Love on Top,&amp;quot; because at the end of the day, even she is a mere mortal. Reality: She will fucking nail it and you will squeal with delight every time she goes higher and higher. You will also break your rule about videoing stuff on your phone during concerts for this one song, and you will actually watch it later, several times in a row.  5. Expectation: You&amp;#039;ll waste a lot of money on very weak mixed drinks that cost $15 each. Reality: You won&amp;#039;t buy any drinks, because you&amp;#039;ll quickly realize that you don&amp;#039;t need any alcohol to enhance the experience of seeing Beyonc\u00E9 live in person. Just witnessing all that insane choreography induces a greater high than any drug known to mankind ever could. 6. Expectation: She will mostly do stuff from the new album, which is not your favorite, but you&amp;#039;re stoked to see how she recreates the pole dance from &amp;quot;Partition&amp;quot; on stage. Reality: She&amp;#039;ll do almost everything from BEYONC\u00C9, then bust out a bonus track, a non-album single, a Lauryn Hill cover, and a Southern-fried version of &amp;quot;Single Ladies.&amp;quot; You can&amp;#039;t even believe this is real life.  7. Expectation: You will see Blue Ivy hanging out backstage. Reality: You will not see Blue Ivy hanging out backstage, because she&amp;#039;s too busy playing with diamond-encrusted Barbies in a fur-trimmed playpen somewhere far from the eyes of peasants like yourself. But you will see her on screen, in exclusive home movies Bey has personally chosen for this event, so it&amp;#039;s still a win.  8. Expectation: You will attempt to recreate the entire &amp;quot;Single Ladies&amp;quot; dance along with Beyonc\u00E9 as she does it right in front of your face. Reality: You will immediately realize this is a terrible idea because (1) you will fall out of your nosebleed seat and (2) there is magic happening onstage and your gangly arms look extremely tragic in comparison.  9. Expectation: It will be the greatest night of your life. Reality: It is the greatest night of your life, with the added bonus of making you feel like a woman who can do anything. Go out and get some more seats in Congress! Fight for reproductive rights! Or you know, just wake up ***flawless. Follow Eliza on Twitter.   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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