Beyoncé Can't Break Verizon's Network in Super Bowl Ad

The company continues to bait the Beyhive as it tries to distance itself from competitors

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Well, it wasn’t a Las Vegas residency or a new tour, but that Verizon Super Bowl ad with Beyoncé did just about everything else it could to break the internet.

After using Arrested Development star Tony Hale to squeeze lemons (a thinly veiled reference to Beyoncé’s 2016 multiplatinum visual album Lemonade) and alluding to the sparkle horse from the ​​Renaissance album cover in its teasers, Verizon placed Beyoncé in choreographed videos, her own lemonade stand, a Kenny G-style saxophone album, BeyoncAI technology, a run for presidency and a performance in space.

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