Beyoncé Bids Farewell to the U.S, “Nobody Listens to My New Country Album”
Beyoncé on Sunday announced new music on her website and on social media, and in a Verizon ad.
The new music is part two of her acclaimed 2022 Renaissance album, which has long been rumored to be a trilogy. As part of the announcement, two songs dropped on Tidal: “Texas Hold ‘Em” and “16 Carriages.”
The Verizon ad found her at a lemonade stand (a nod to her 2016 album of the same name), following several playful takes on her name: “Barbey,” a nod to Barbie, and “BOTUS,” saying she’d be the first female president.
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Meanwhile, videos posted on her website and on Instagram featured the tease “Act II” along with the date of March 29.
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That video features a country vibe. It starts out showing the license plate of a car taking off down a dirt road with the license plate “HOLD’EM.” Several songs play as if someone is flipping through country music stations on the radio, including a yodeling song and Chuck Berry’s “Maybelline.”
It then switches to a country-tinged song by Beyoncé, with her singing, “Say Texas, ain’t no hold ’em, lay your cards down down down down.” It also features a billboard with an image of Beyoncé waving as several men ogle it.
Beyoncé, of course, hails from Houston. She and her family, including husband Jay-Z, were at the Super Bowl in Las Vegas on Sunday to watch the Kansas City Chiefs play the San Francisco 49ers.
This new album is part of what fans have speculated is a trilogy, and they’ve been convinced for some time that this would be a country album.
Harris camp responds to Trump telling Christians they ‘don’t have to vote again’ if he gets elected
As former President Donald Trump wrapped his nearly 75-minute speech on Friday night, he delivered a final pitch to the Christian conservative crowd, saying if they vote for him on Election Day, they would never be obligated to vote again.
“I don’t care how, but you have to get out and vote,” Trump said at Turning Point Action’s Believers Summit in West Palm Beach. “Christians, get out and vote just this time.”
“You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? It’ll be fixed,” Trump said.
PHOTO: Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump Holds A Campaign Rally In Charlotte, North Carolina (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
He added: “I love you, Christians. I’m a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again, we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.”
The Harris campaign is characterizing Trump’s comment that if Christians vote this one time they won’t have to do it anymore as a “vow to end democracy.”
“When Vice President Harris says this election is about freedom she means it. Our democracy is under assault by criminal Donald Trump,” Harris for President Spokesperson James Singer said. “Donald Trump wants to take America backward, to a politics of hate, chaos, and fear – this November America will unite around Vice President Kamala Harris to stop him.”
The gathering centered around divine intervention – where Trump reiterated that the power of prayer and the grace of Almighty God saved his life two weeks ago when a bullet struck him in an attempted assassination.
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“We want to thank each and every one of the believers in this room for your prayers and your incredible support. I really did appreciate it. Something was working, that we know, something was working,” Trump opened his remarks. “I stand before you tonight, thanks to the power of prayer and the grace of Almighty God.”
Trump also suggested that Christians don’t vote “proportionately,” which Trump often bickers about on the campaign trail.
“I don’t want to scold you, but do you know that Christians do not vote proportionately?” Trump asked the crowd.
Trump’s comments made the rounds on social media as users suggested that his comments sounded similar to when he commented that he’d be a dictator, but just on “day one” and suggested that Trump was alluding to never leaving the White House.
The Trump campaign released a statement clarifying what the former president might have meant with his message to Christian voters, his campaign suggested he was talking about the “importance of faith,” “uniting the country,” and bringing prosperity.”
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“President Trump was talking about the importance of faith, uniting this country and bringing prosperity to every American, as opposed to the divisive political environment that has sowed so much division and even resulted in an assassination attempt,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung wrote in a statement.
