Genius ushers in 2018 with iconic moment from Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj's 'Feeling Myself'
There's only one person in this entire damn universe with the power to command the world to stop—Beyoncé.
In the final milliseconds of 2017, the dulcet sound of Beyoncé ordered the world—and year— to stop. And, as 2018 began, she gave the world permission to "carry on."
This was no coincidence, friends. Ingenious Twitter user @xavierliciouss spent New Year's Eve conducting an extremely important experiment involving "Feeling Myself" by Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé.
"So I tested out the theory that if you play "Feeling Myself" by Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé at exactly 11:58:50 pm on New Year's Eve, Beyoncé will say "world stop" in 2017 and "Carry on" in 2018, AND BITCH IT WORKEDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!" she wrote.
And, here's the proof...
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This is the only worthwhile way to bring in the New Year. Thank you and good night.
Carry on, world.
Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.
