Beyoncé on Sunday introduced new music on her web site and on social media, and in a Verizon advert.
The brand new music is Half 2 of her acclaimed 2022 Renaissance album, which has lengthy been rumored to be a trilogy. As a part of the announcement, two songs dropped on Tidal: “Texas Maintain ‘Em” and “16 Carriages.”
The Verizon advert discovered her at a lemonade stand (a nod to her 2016 album of the identical identify), following a number of playful takes on her identify: “Barbey,” a nod to Barbie, and “BOTUS,” saying she’d be the primary feminine president.
In the meantime, movies posted on her web site and on Instagram featured the tease “Act II” together with the date of March 29.
That video encompasses a nation vibe. It begins out displaying the license plate of a automotive taking off down a mud street with the license plate “HOLD’EM.” A number of songs play as if somebody is flipping by way of nation music stations on the radio, together with a yodeling tune and Chuck Berry’s “Maybelline.”
It then switches to a country-tinged tune by Beyoncé, together with her singing, “Say Texas, ain’t no maintain ’em, lay your playing cards down down down down.” It additionally encompasses a billboard with a picture of Beyoncé waving as a number of males ogle it.
Beyoncé, in fact, hails from Houston. She and her household, together with husband Jay-Z, had been on the Tremendous Bowl in Las Vegas on Sunday to observe the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs play the San Francisco 49ers.
This new album is a part of what followers have speculated is a trilogy, they usually’ve been satisfied for a while that this might be a rustic album.
