Paul Drinkwater/NBCTurns out Christina Aguilera and Demi Lovato’s Billboard Music Awards performance of “Fall in Line” was a taste of what their music video would be like.
The video for the feminist empowerment anthem begins with two little girls — one blonde and one brunette — running carefree through a field when they’re suddenly snatched by two armed men wearing black helmets.
We then see Christina and Demi as the two young girls grown up, being held in captivity by more of these oppressive masked men. The two take turns singing in a stark room with multiple cameras pointing at them.
After delivering their message that will surely “burn them at the stake,” a shackled Christina is taken to a jail cell where a man tries to take advantage of her. But she overpowers him, knocks him out and steals his keys. She then finds Demi and together they overpower another guard and break free.
The video ends with them climbing out of the bunker where they were held captive and heading back into the sunny field they played in as children.
The visual is, of course, a representation of women taking down the patriarchy and reclaiming their power.
Christina’s new album, Liberation, drops June 15.
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