The stars at night, were big and bright - when "Cowboy Carter" came to town. A stable of celebrities showed up for both nights of Beyoncé's homecoming at NRG Stadium, from rap royalty to comedy queens.

The superstar referenced two fellow Houstonians while playing off the technical mishap from one of her hometown stops during the Cowboy Carter Tour.

In a stadium of strangers dressed in fabulous fringe, denim, boots, cowboy hats and other adornments in keeping with the immaculate Cowboy Carter aesthetic, I rediscovered something that I had long misplaced: Ebullient joy.