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 MOREDream pop artist Absolutely is in a world of her ownLove Muscle is the beating heart of Leeds’ queer nightlife sceneAn introduction to Awful Records in 5 tracksIn pictures: 2hollis shuts down the takt after party in BerlinZeyne is making ‘Arabic alt-pop’ to reclaim her voice5 things that inspired Smerz’s dreamy album, Big City LifeFKA twigs’ albums ranked, from alien to human Alt-pop artist Sassy 009 shares 5 of her offline obsessions15 of the most iconic producer tags of all timeReykjavík’s Alaska1867: ‘You don’t hear rap from this perspective’ Colombian-born Sinego wants to become the Anthony Bourdain of music5 artists speak on the future of ‘Latin Club’