For the primary time in years, Beyoncé has shared a music video. Nicely, type of: The brand new quick, 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 observe “Bodyguard,” and inspiring individuals to vote, earlier than wishing us a contented “Beylloween.” Watch it go down under.
Beyoncé’s final music movies had been excerpted from her visible album Black Is King, as had 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 Baby bandmate Kelly Rowland delivered a speech advocating for the Democratic nominee and, specifically, for reproductive freedom. She had beforehand granted permission for Harris to play her music (specifically the Lemonade observe “Freedom”) at marketing campaign occasions—an honor denied to former President Donald J. Trump.
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