Teyana Taylor and Aaron Pierre star within the former’s newest music video, sharing a kiss that appears to verify their long-rumored relationship.
Following months of hypothesis that she and Pierre are relationship, Taylor dropped the teaser for her fourth album, Escape Room. The LP, which is about to reach in August, would be the singer’s first since The Album in 2020.
The teaser begins with Taylor exchanging vows with LaKeith Stanfeld, with different scenes exhibiting the trials and tribulations of their marriage. Teyana then leaves her husband for Pierre’s character, however the visible ends with the actor aiming a gun at his love curiosity. The album teaser comes as Taylor and Pierre proceed to spark relationship rumors by being noticed at public occasions collectively, together with the Vainness Honest Oscar Get together.
The preview for Escape Room appears to trace at Taylor’s 2024 divorce from Iman Shumpert, whom she shares two daughters with. Although the break up was finalized final July, Shumpert stirred the pot earlier this month when he filed a movement for his ex-wife to be present in contempt in court docket for allegedly violating phrases of their divorce.
The retired NBA participant accused his ex-wife of “willfully and contemptuously expos[ing] and broadcast[ing] particular provisions of the ultimate judgment decree of divorce and associated provisions, recklessly disregarding the monetary circumstances, privateness, security, and safety of the events and their minor kids,” in response to Complicated.
This comes after Taylor beforehand wished Shumpert to be held in contempt, claiming that he leaked sealed paperwork and made her a sufferer of deceptive stories about what she obtained of their divorce.
When the total video for her first single, “Lengthy Time,” dropped on Wednesday, the parallels to her marriage are much more obvious, saying she ought to have left the connection a “very long time in the past.” The visuals additionally present her in a blood-covered marriage ceremony costume earlier than transitioning into an all-red robe with an extended practice that trails round her like a pool of blood, surrounded by crime scene tape.
In the long run, Aaron Pierre picks her up from the bottom, rescuing the singer and seemingly bringing her again to life.
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