For the primary time in years, Beyoncé has shared a music video. Effectively, type of: The brand new brief, titled “Beywatch” and launched on U.S. Election Day, presents her in a Halloween get-up as Pamela Anderson, singing alongside to an edit of the Cowboy Carter monitor “Bodyguard,” and inspiring individuals to vote, earlier than wishing us a contented “Beylloween.” Watch it go down beneath.
Beyoncé’s final music movies have been excerpted from her visible album Black Is King, as have been their predecessors from the Lemonade movie. Her final standalone solo music video was for “Formation,” in 2015, although she has appeared in some commercials soundtracked by her songs.
The discharge of “Beywatch” follows her look final month at a Kamala Harris rally in Houston, the place she and former Future’s Little one bandmate Kelly Rowland delivered a speech advocating for the Democratic nominee and, particularly, for reproductive freedom. She had beforehand granted permission for Harris to play her music (particularly the Lemonade monitor “Freedom”) at marketing campaign occasions—an honor denied to former President Donald J. Trump.
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