Entertainment
Renaissance Act II: Beyoncé announces new album in Super Bowl advert
The keenly-awaited part two to Beyoncé’s Renaissance project has been announced during a Super Bowl advertisement.
“Okay, they ready. Drop the new music,” the singer instructed at the end of the ad for US communications giant Verizon.
Immediately following the advert, Beyoncé released two new songs titled Texas Hold ‘Em and 16 Carriages.
The album, out on 29 March, is expected to lean into the country genre.
In the advert, Beyoncé attempts to overload Verizon’s capacity and ‘break the internet’ in increasingly absurd ways, such as playing the saxophone, creating a “Beyonc-AI robot”, dressing as Bar-bey (Barbie), running for president and performing from space.
Keeping track of whether the internet has collapsed in response is Veep star Tony Hale.
At the end of the advert, from the orbiting rocket, she radios back to him: “Okay, they ready. Drop the new music.”
Beyoncé was at the Super Bowl in Las Vegas alongside her husband Jay-Z and daughters Blue Ivy and Rumi.
She was filmed in the crowd calmly sipping from a drink in the moments that followed the advert.
The first instalment of Beyoncé’s Renaissance project was released in July 2022. Soon after, she revealed the album was the first of a three-act project.
The album won her a record-breaking 32nd Grammy.
Almost a year later, she embarked on the Renaissance World Tour, which was later released as a film.
- Top Stories10 hours ago
Xi and Putin: The marriage of convenience that is reshaping the world order
- Politics23 hours ago
Lagos Assembly Proposes Geographic Information Law
- Top Stories10 hours ago
‘Tax Evasion’: FIRS amends charge against Binance, Gambaryan
- News11 hours ago
Black Market Dollar (USD) To Naira (NGN) Exchange Rate Today 18th May 2024
- Business and Brands23 hours ago
Access Bank Group, Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation Pledge $300m to Transform Africa’s Economic Landscape
- Top Stories11 hours ago
Primate Ayodele: Tinubu Should End Fight Between Wike And Fubara Quickly
- Politics10 hours ago
#US2024: Biden-Trump rematch is still neck and neck -New Poll Shows
- News11 hours ago
Lagos Court Jails Social Media Influencer,’Keanu Reeves’ For Celebrity Scam