MusicNewsBeyoncé shares full ‘Hold Up’ video on 35th birthdayThe singer released the standalone clip on YouTube yesterdayShareLink copied ✔️September 5, 2016MusicNewsTextDominique Sisley Beyoncé celebrated her 35th birthday yesterday by sharing the full standalone video for “Hold Up” on YouTube. The clip, which won the VMA’s Best Female Video award last week, has been plucked from the singer’s iconic, hour-long visual album Lemonade. Despite initially only being viewable on Tidal, it has now been posted to Vevo; making it freely available to all fans who have yet to see her smash shit up with a baseball bat. The video, which runs over five minutes, opens with Beyoncé reading a poem from Somali-born Brit Warsan Shire. “I tried to change,” the singer recites. “Closed my mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less awake. Fasted for 60 days, wore white, abstained from mirrors, abstained from sex, slowly did not speak another word.” “I grew thickened skin on my feet, I bathed in bleach, and plugged my menses with pages from the holy book, but still inside me, coiled deep, was the need to know ... Are you cheating on me?” “Hold Up” is the second track to shared outside of Tidal, and follows on from her June-released video for “Sorry”. Watch it in full above. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREWesley Joseph is the Marty Supreme of R&B (only nicer) How Turnstile are reinventing hardcore for the internet ageWill these be the biggest musical moments of 2026?Rising singer Liim is the crooning voice of New York CityFrench producer Malibu is an ambient antidote for the chronically online10 musicians to watch in 202610 great albums you may have missed in the last three monthsZukovstheworld on the UK Ug scene: ‘It’s modern pop music’The only tracks you need to hear from December 202511 alt Christmas anthems for the miserable and brokenhearted Last Days: The opera exploring the myth of Kurt CobainHow hip-hop is shaping the fight for Taiwan’s future