'Stop shooting us': Beyoncé surprises fans with searing Black Lives Matter-themed song Formation as she plans to hijack Super Bowl with political performance

Beyoncé will perform a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement at the Super Bowl a day after releasing the new song.

The 34-year-old surprised fans on Saturday by dropping a video to Formation, which features flood-ridden New Orleans and a line of white cops facing a hooded little boy.

'Let's get in formation... Prove to me you got some coordination,' she chants before the camera pans over graffiti that says: 'stop shooting us'.

Within minutes of the video's release, Twitter was awash with reactions to the fiercely political lyrics and scenes - and a cameo role from the singer's four-year-old daughter with Jay Z, Blue Ivy.

It was still trending worldwide on Sunday as the Super Bowl - the most watched TV event of the year - approached.

Beyoncé is expected to perform Formation at half time - three years after sending shock waves around the world in her last Super Bowl performance with a backdrop sign that read: 'FEMINIST'. 

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Beyoncé surprised fans on Saturday by dropping a video to Formation on Saturday. It opens with the singer on top of a flooded New Orleans police car, pointing to the state of Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Katrina

It looks like a hooded figure is running towards them. When the camera turns round it turns out to be a little hooded boy dancing in front of them. At the end, they cops raise their hands up as if they are under arrest

The video ends with a panning shot of graffiti that reads: 'Stop shooting us'

It is possibly Beyoncé's most political song and she is expected to perform it at the Super Bowl on Sunday

Notice: The clip began with a warning about the content

The video opens with a warning: 'parental advisory... explicit lyrics.'

It then cuts to Beyoncé croutching on top of a flooded New Orleans police car, seemingly pointing to the state of law enforcement in Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. 

At the end of the video, the singer is seen drowning on top of the same police car. 

A row of police officers in riot gear also appears throughout the video. 

It looks like a hooded figure is running towards them. When the camera turns round it turns out to be a little hooded boy dancing in front of them.

At the end, they raise their hands up in the gesture of people under arrest; the camera then turns to graffiti on the wall that says, 'Stop shooting us.'

Fans were also excited by the appearance of Blue Ivy, Beyoncé's daughter with Jay Z.  

The adorable four-year-old looked angelic in a long white dress as she danced around with two other young girls and posed for the camera.

A shadowy figure and police car lights in New Orleans set the tone for the video as it opened

Classy: She could also be seen in a white period gowns, which appeared to be a nod to the dress worn by the rich white women from the South during the American slave trade era 

Cameo role: Her four-year-old daughter Blue Ivy Carter was featured in the clip

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She also wore thigh-high stockings and an intricate, large pearl necklace as she moved and grooved in a hallway with a few of her background dancers.

Her highlighted brunette tresses were worn in an intricate braided updo as she sported natural, complimentary make-up on her face topped off with a swipe of shiny lip.

As the music video is set in New Orleans, she paid homage to the city by moving and grooving inside the hallways of a plantation-style home. 

She also had several outfit changes in the video including looks that featured a patterned red dress, a Victorian-era style white number, black dress with a large hat, and brown fur jacket. 

Perhaps her most memorable look as she rocked luxury athleisure in the form of a clinging, patterned Gucci crop top and matching tiny shorts.

Her background dancers were all wrapped in the same luxury workout wear as they shimmy and sashayed in an empty pool. 

In true Beyoncé style, the video features slick coordianted dances, many in plantation-style Louisiana homes 

Fancy: She could also be seen hanging out of the passenger side of a classic car while wearing a fur coat

Hanging out: She also shared the cover art of the single

Stunning: Beyonce took to Twitter to share several images on Instagram including this one of she and her dancers all done up in the Gucci gear

As the music video has a 'parental advisory explicit lyrics' warning at the beginning, the content of the song is much racier than most Beyonce fans are accustomed to. 

One of the more eyebrow-raising lines was: 'When he f*** me good I take his a** to Red Lobster, cause I slay.'

Social media was abuzz after the release as several celebs weighed in with their positively glowing reviews of the surprise drop.

Perhaps the funniest post of all would be from John Legend, who posted a photo of a pensive Barack Obama on Twitter. 

The 37-year-old crooner made light of a racy lyric from the song with the hilarious tweet which read: 'When you realize your dad took your mom to red lobster every week.'

His pregnant model wife Chrissy Teigen definitely seemed to be a fan of the post as she replied: ''@johnlegend this is a good tweet.'

Big fans: Several celebrities positively reacted to the clip

Man with the plan: Mike Will Made It revealed that he produced the catchy song

And Bey's sister Solange tweeted: Y'all gonna learn bout dem children of Celestine & Mathew, lol. Slay sis, slay. And Slay niece, slay.'

Beyonce definitely seems to be striking while the iron is hot as her online store was loaded with several new pieces of merchandise related to the song including hats, shirts, mobile phone cases and scarves.

The Single Ladies hitmaker may be debuting the song live for the first time on a huge stage as she was rehearsing Formation during preparations for the halftime show according to a Saturday report from Rolling Stone.

Though it has not been confirmed whether or not she will be performing it, Beyonce will be a special guest at the Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show headlined by Coldplay on Sunday night.