The video shows Solange wearing various hairstyles, such as beaded braids, brushed out curls, an afro and a crown of looped braids. Directed by Solange and director Alan Ferguson. Dont Touch My Hair is a powerful track where Solange sets limits and boundries in her life, as well as asking white people to not touch her hair a form of. Throughout the video, you can see afro/natural hairstyles across the centuries and this is all the more powerful as it tells the history of the evolution of black culture. The music video for DonвЂ™t Touch My Hair was released on the 3rd October 2016. 'Don't Touch My Hair' underlinesВ this needВ to protect black women's unique identity andВ roots. Like these groups,В this song speaks up for a group that is not always seen in popular culture. Each song plays out onscreen in a specific and arresting fashionbut itвЂ™s DonвЂ™t Touch My Hair, which has already racked up 1,613,158 views (and counting) on YouTube since its Sunday. Recently we have seen different movements such as feminism,В LGBTВ community and now the Black Lives Matter movement fight to get their voices heard, in their fightВ for equality. Then earlier this week, Solange dropped her achingly beautiful fourth studio album (four years in the making), A Seat at the Table, featuring 'Dont Touch My Hair,' a nicely timed corrective. Just days after the release of her transcendent new album A Seat at the Table, Solange Knowles shared two beautiful videos for album tracks DonвЂ™t Touch My Hair and Cranes in the Sky.

The song is as much as what it feels like to have your whole identity challenged on a daily basis, although physically touching the hair is extremely problematic!' Solange talked about her hair backВ in 2016, saying 'incredibly spiritual, and, energetically, it really encompasses and expresses who we are. Two years after its release 'Don't Touch My Hair' is a song that still comes to mind for black women everywhere who have ever had to deal withВ unwanted hands in their hair.

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