The pop star debuted a politically charged music video for “Formation” on Saturday.
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That message was unmistakable, especially in the song’s music video – featuring imagery that evokes Hurricane Katrina, with Beyonce being submerged on top of a sinking police cruiser.
It’s a big, cinematic song, and embodied the spirit of the Super Bowl, especially when Coldplay frontman Chris Martin said, “Wherever you are, we’re in this together”. Let’s have decent, wholesome entertainment and not use it as a platform to attack the people who risk their lives to save us.
“The performance featured dancers donning the iconic berets of the Black Panthers, and at one point creating in formation the letter ‘X”, which many saw as a reference to Malcolm X. I don’t know what the heck it was.
“I had front row seats and witnessed these two incredible artist do their thing”.
Chris explained she said no ‘in the sweetest possible way: She told me, “I really like you – but this is bad”‘.
“What we should be doing in the African-American community, and all communities, is build up respect for police officers”, Giuliani added. We’ll work on that. It also depicts graffiti that reads “stop shooting us”, suggestive of the Black Lives Matter movement, which emerged in the wake of killings of unarmed black men, several at the hands of police. As the New York Daily News reported, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani blasted the singer’s performance of “Formation”.
The issue here is that something is always going wrong and no one is working on it. Black people, including Beyoncé, are exhausted of it.
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Beyonce fans are in for a treat as the Grammy-winning singer has announced a brand new tour.
