The tennis star took us back to 2016 with her latest Instagram post.
Serena Williams just put her stamp of approval on an Instagram trend that is taking over the Meta app. Posted on celebrity feeds like those of Kylie Jenner, Shawn Johnson East and Karlie Kloss, the social media surge looks back on memorable moments from a decade ago. For 44-year-old Williams, one of those moments was in a music video for Beyoncé’s visual album, Lemonade.
The history-making tennis player appeared in the music video for the 2016 album’s fourth song, titled “Sorry.” During her cameo, she danced next to the now 35-time Grammy Award winner. To date, it has notched 360 million views and counting on YouTube.
And while it has been nearly 10 years since the album first debuted in April of 2016, Williams referenced her stint in the black and white music video on Instagram today, Jan. 16, with a few monochromatic snaps of her own.
“I ain’t sorry, these Meg [Thee Stallion] knees are here to stay,” the athlete penned as the post’s caption, with an emoji of a lemon. She then added “#girlsnightout” to complete her note. In her cover frame, the mother of two shaded a candid snap of herself in a squat-like position—similar to the moves she makes while dancing with Beyoncé.
In the two consecutive slides, she smiled beside her crew in a pair of black and white photos, before sharing a slew of awards, which read “Beychela Spirit Award” and “The Supreme Bey Award” among others. Finally, she capped off the seven-image carousel with three snapshots from her time on-set with the artist.
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“The way I GASPED during the Lemonade premiere and seeing you pop up🖤🥹,” another user recalled.
“thee iconic crossover event to end all iconic crossover events,” a commenter declared.
And if you’re looking for how the cameo came to be, Williams previously shared that backstory, too.
“I have known the [music video] director [Kahlil Joseph] since I was like nine years old. I know Beyonce pretty well, so they were like, ‘We would love for you to be in this particular song. It’s about strength and it’s about courage, and that’s what we see you as,’” Williams told Billboard just weeks after Lemonade’s release. The four-time Olympic gold medalist continued, “She told me that she just wants me to dance, like just be really free and just dance like nobody’s looking and go all out.”
