Vanessa Williams Drops Instantly Iconic ‘Legs’ Music Video

The faculties have formally been opened, and Vanessa Williams is the one trainer we’d like.

Williams, 61, launched her new music and accompanying music video, “Legs (Preserve Dancing),” on Friday, April 26, and followers already can’t get sufficient. “Vanessa Williams simply dropped a brand new music and video!!!!!! 61 y’all 🗣️ oh you pop women are at risk,” one impressed listener wrote by way of X. “Wait a minute now Vanessa Williams dropped a bop,” added one other social media person.

The music is about refusing to surrender on your self merely since you’re getting older. “Say what you say, anticipate me to fade / I don’t give it some thought, I don’t give it some thought,” Williams sings on the pre-chorus. “I bought work left to do and I’m not near by / Not whereas I nonetheless bought these legs.”

Her jubilantly defiant angle continues on the refrain with the lyrics, “They are saying the legs are the final to go (I’mma hold dancing) / I’m nonetheless placing on a present (I’mma hold dancing) / Until I can’t do it no extra.”

Williams does certainly hold dancing all through the video, which reveals her executing some main choreography with assist from quite a few backup performers.

Forward of the music’s launch, Williams shared a clip of herself strolling right into a rehearsal room as potential dancers prepped for his or her auditions. “Let me present these kids,” she captioned the submit.

Within the feedback part, Mike Ruiz, who directed the video, quipped, “Generally the youngsters simply should be schooled!!”

The title of the music is a reference to Diahann Carroll’s 2008 memoir, The Legs Are the Final to Go: Growing old, Appearing, Marrying, and Different Issues I Discovered the Arduous Approach.

“The entire idea was Vanessa’s thought,” cowriter Kipper Jones stated in a press launch, including that Williams simply knew she needed to include Carroll’s title someplace within the music. “[Vanessa] didn’t know whether or not it was the title of the music or the lyric or no matter. I didn’t discover that uncommon in any respect. That can be how we got here up with ‘The Consolation Zone’ again in 1991.”

Earlier this month, Williams introduced her new full-length album can be arriving later this 12 months.

“What a pleasure it’s to be making new music behind the [mic] once more with previous buddies,” she stated in an announcement. “There’s a sure consolation in creating new works within the studio whereas reminiscing about how so a few years on this enterprise have introduced successes, pleasure and lasting recollections. At all times transferring ahead is what drives me. Each problem is thrilling. And extra new music to share with my followers is the gasoline that lights my hearth.”