U.S. Democratic candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris has released her first campaign video for the 2024 presidential election, featuring Beyoncé’s “Freedom” as the background music. The song is from Beyoncé’s landmark 2016 album “Lemonade.” This track has now become Harris’s campaign song.
The campaign video addresses issues such as gun violence, healthcare, and abortion, which are particularly pressing and widely discussed in American society today. In the video, Harris states, “We choose freedom,” followed immediately by Beyoncé’s powerful chorus: “Freedom! Freedom! I can’t move; Freedom, cut me loose! Yeah.”
On Monday, at her campaign headquarters in Delaware, Kamala Harris made her first public appearance as a presidential candidate, singing “Freedom.” The next day, Tuesday, she also sang “Freedom” at the beginning and end of a rally in Milwaukee.
Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” is acclaimed as an instant classic. The album was inspired by Beyoncé’s grandmother Agnéz Deréon and her husband Jay-Z’s grandmother Hattie White. At the end of the track, you can hear Hattie White’s words from her 90th birthday party in April 2015: “I was given lemons, but I made lemonade.” The song “Freedom” is a game-changing track, examining personal struggles and social injustice, and was sung by activists before the 2016 presidential election.