The Democratic national convention in Chicago kicked off on Monday with a Kamala Harris campaign ad soundtracked by Beyoncé.
It’s not a new Beyoncé track just months after the release of Cowboy Carter, nor a tune from that country-inspired record, but Freedom, a driving song from her 2016 album, Lemonade, that’s become an officially licensed theme song for Harris. The song, which plays over almost all of the two-minute, 43-second ad, was also the subject of a cease-and-desist this week – not issued to the Harris campaign, but to Trump’s, which made the baffling decision to post their own, much shorter video on social media of Trump leaving an airplane, scored to the exact same song.
