Beyonce has grabbed fans attention by sharing a new video for her song Bodyguard in which she urges viewers to vote in the US Presidential election.
The superstar, 43, had previously said she wouldn’t be making any music videos for Cowboy Carter to allow fans to ‘focus on the voice.’
The clip, shared with her 314million Instagram followers, is the closest eager members of the Bey-hive have gotten to visuals to go along with the beloved album.
The video sees the singer pay homage to Pamela Anderson’s character C. J. Parker from Baywatch, with the opening showing her with a prop gun that ejects a flag that reads: ‘Vote!’
The video ends with Beyonce wishing viewers a ‘happy Beylloween,’ before once again encouraging them to go out and vote.
She previously told GQ about visuals to go with the album: ‘I thought it was important that during a time where all we see is visuals, that the world can focus on the voice,’ she explained.
‘The music is so rich in history and instrumentation. It takes months to digest, research and understand. The music needed space to breathe on its own,” Beyoncé continued.
‘Sometimes a visual can be a distraction from the quality of the voice and the music. The years of hard work and detail put into an album that takes over four years! The music is enough. The fans from all over the world became the visual. We all got the visual on tour. We then got more visuals from my film.’
But the singer quickly made it clear that the video wasn’t teasing more visual content to come, posting an Instagram soon after the first post in which she stood in front of a red carpet style backdrop that cheekily reads: ‘No Visuals Awards.’
Fans commented in droves, expressing faux outrage, with @thecarmyn writing: ‘NO VISUAL AWARDS ?!?!? OH YOU REAL FUNNY LMAOOO’
@filmsbratz agreed: ‘“no visual awards” oh she’s SICK for that! how dare you ma’am?! 😭😭😭 you ate with the iconic looks of Miss Pamela tho!’
The unexpected visual is Beyonce’s latest form of political activism, having recently made her endorsement for Presidential Nominee Vice President Kamala Harris clear.
The hitmaker spoke in front of 30,000 people in Houston, Texas at a Kamala Harris’ rally.
‘I’m not here as a celebrity; I’m not here as a politician. I’m here as a mother,’ she began, claiming that a Republican government would reduce women’s rights.
She continued: ‘A mother who cares deeply about the world my children and all of our children live in, a world where we have the freedom to control our bodies, a world where we’re not divided.
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‘Imagine our daughters growing up seeing what’s possible with no ceilings, no limitations. We must vote, and we need you.’
Beyonce is one of many big name celebrities coming out to support Vice President Harris.
Taylor Swift just about broke the internet when she publicly backed Harris on Instagram last month, in a post that has been liked more than 11million times and counting.
In August, the Foo Fighters came out swinging after the Trump campaign used their song, My Hero, at an event in Arizona without permission – a representative confirmed that any royalties the group receive from the unpermitted usage will be ‘donated to the Harris/Walz campaign.’
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