Beyonce Gets Artsy In New Pepsi Promo Shots
Beyonce is serving up some crisp, carbonated retro style in the promo shots for her new Pepsi campaign, complaints about the hypocrisy of a role model endorsed by Michelle Obama accepting millions of dollars to be the face of a product that contributes to childhood obesity be damned! The pictures are high-color and posterized like vintage Warhol prints — heavy on the red and blue, per the colors of the Pepsi can — and, well, that megawatt smile seems well worth the $50 million she was paid as part of the deal. It’s no ARTPOP, but it is, in fact, pop art.
As her contemporary Nicki Minaj once famously asked: Is this how Marilyn Monroe felt? See the full ad after the jump.