- Verizon launched two advertisements that followers say trace at a Beyoncé Tremendous Bowl industrial.
- The advertisements seem to characteristic references to Beyoncé’s music and album artwork.
- Neither Verizon nor Beyoncé have confirmed the speculations on social media.
Why is Tony Hale squeezing lemons and speaking to a silver disco horse in a Verizon industrial? For diehard followers, all indicators level to Beyoncé.
Verizon launched two weird advertisements on Thursday and Friday, main TikTok and X viewers to invest that the celebrity is concerned with the corporate. Some say she could possibly be set to look in a Tremendous Bowl industrial.
“The Lemonade references? My Home enjoying ultimately? Verizon being one in every of Renaissance World Tour’s sponsors? Are we actually going to see thee Beyoncé in a industrial in the course of the Superbowl?” one Beyonce fan account wrote on X.
Within the first industrial launched Thursday, Hale seems surrounded by lemons.
“Maintain up. She desires me to squeeze all these lemons on my own?” Hale says, with a lemon juicer of their hand. “This higher work.”
The “Maintain up” line, followers speculated, might reference a tune in Beyoncé’s 2016 studio album “Lemonade” — therefore the lemons.
“Maintain up, they do not love you want I like you,” Beyoncé sings at the start of the anti-cheater anthem, reportedly impressed by Jay-Z’s infidelity.
The quick clip ends with “2/11/24” within the middle of a black display screen — the date of this 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl — and a split-second tune snippet. Followers rapidly observed that the music on the finish sounded very acquainted to “My Home,” a tune launched by Bey in December that served as the tip credit to her film “Renaissance: A Movie by Beyoncé.”
And simply when the Beyhive thought they couldn’t get extra hype, Verizon dropped a second industrial Friday, this time that includes a silver horse statue.
“Ought to we be in a Tremendous Bowl industrial? Yay or Neigh,” Hale, who performed Buster Bluth within the FOX comedy collection “Arrested Improvement,” says to the horse. The lifeless horse doesn’t chuckle on the joke, and Hale walks away, saying, “OK, it is a downside.”
The identical outro follows the industrial.
Beyoncé hasn’t confirmed something on her social media pages. Nonetheless, the Beyhive identified that the “Love on Prime” singer rides a similar-looking silver horse on the duvet of her “Renaissance” album.
Bey has beforehand labored with Verizon, which sponsored the Renaissance World Tour by offering a platform for followers to buy presale tickets.
Representatives for Verizon and Beyoncé didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider.
Past anticipating the industrial, followers additionally anticipate that Queen Bey might use the chance to announce a Las Vegas residency.
Usher, Mariah Carey, and Adele have all had profitable Vegas residencies not too long ago, and the Beyhive thinks Beyoncé is subsequent on that listing.
Bey devotees additionally assume the residency will happen on the Las Vegas Sphere. Verizon additionally confirmed it might promote on the Sphere into the Tremendous Bowl weekend. The band U2’s residency on the Sphere was introduced in a Tremendous Bowl advert final 12 months.
The U2 residency ends in March, and two residencies have been introduced for 2024: Phish, which can have a four-day residency, and Lifeless & Firm, which is able to play 18 exhibits in Might and June.
If Beyoncé does a residency in Vegas, she might rake in hundreds of thousands. Usher reportedly grossed practically $19 million throughout his first Vegas residency in 2021, and U2 could have introduced in $110 million in the course of the first three months of their residency on the Sphere, Billboard reported.
“If this occurs, I will lose my shit… and possibly spend most of my financial savings,” one TikToker who made the connection mentioned.
Representatives for The Sphere didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider.
