Beyoncé tells her followers to go “VOTE” in her first Cowboy Carter music video. (YouTube/Beyoncé)
Saddle up, it’s occurred: Beyoncé has dropped the primary official music video from her Cowboy Carter period.
Queen B selected US election day, Tuesday (5 November), to lastly keep in mind her YouTube password and drop the music video for her music, “Bodyguard”, one of many greatest pop numbers on her most-recent album.
The discharge date is on no account an accident both, as she seems in the direction of the top of the uncharacteristically simplistic video with a prank gun, with the phrase “vote” written on a crimson flag draped over it.
Importing the two-and-a-half-minute video to YouTube, the “Texas Maintain ‘Em” singer captioned it with a straight-to-the-point message, writing: “#Vote.”
The video additionally reveals the star lolling about whereas paying homage to Baywatch legend Pamela Anderson, with blonde hair, and sporting a crimson bathing go well with, emblazoned with the phrase Beywatch.
Different scenes present her tackle the function of Anderson in her 1996 superhero cult traditional, Barb Wire, and recreate the actor’s 1999 MTV video music awards outfit. The seems made up Beyoncé’s Halloween costume for this 12 months.
The clip reveals Beyoncé in her Anderson look accumulating the “no visuals award”, a reference to her refusal to drop any music movies from her previous two eras.
It’s the primary official music video the star has launched from both Cowboy Carter or her earlier album – a tribute to the LGBTQ+ group – Renaissance.
After two years of fan calls for, who knew it will solely take one of many tightest US elections in fashionable historical past to get Beyoncé to (type of) drop the visuals?
On social media, it’s secure to say that the BeyHive is not OK.
“By no means thought we’d get Cowboy Carter visuals earlier than Renaissance,” wrote one fan, alongside a weeping emoji. One other mentioned: “Three birds, one stone. Halloween outfits reveal, “Bodyguard” visible and advocating to vote. Queen.”
A 3rd wrote: “Neatest thing in regards to the election is the very fact we obtained Bey visuals.”
Final week, the music titan gave a prolonged speech at presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s rally in Houston, Texas, endorsing the Democrat and her stance on girls’s rights.
“I’m not right here as a star, I’m not right here as a politician. I’m right here as a mom,” she instructed the group. “A mom who cares deeply in regards to the world my youngsters and all of our youngsters dwell in, a world the place we have now the liberty to manage our our bodies, a world the place we’re not divided.”
Thousands and thousands of Individuals are heading to the polls at present to vote for the subsequent president, and, in some locations, senators, representatives and governors.
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