Shaboozey drops 'Cowgirl' music video starring Ciara Miller ahead of July album

Shaboozey keeps his outlaw era rolling

Shaboozey has released the music video for "Cowgirl," the latest single from his forthcoming concept album, and the clip arrives with a notable face: Ciara Miller, known to Bravo viewers from Summer House. According to Billboard, the video was co-directed by Logan Meis and Shaboozey himself, and it follows Miller as a fearless gunslinger navigating a rough saloon somewhere deep in the Wild West.

The story behind the clip

The video opens with a title card placing the action five days after the death of Sheriff Lee, giving Miller's character a grief-soaked, vengeance-fueled motivation before she even orders her first drink. She out-drinks, out-arm-wrestles, and out-shoots every cowboy in the room. It is not subtle, and it is not meant to be.

"Cowgirl" is the second single lifted from Shaboozey's upcoming album, following "Born To Die," which came out in April. The full record, The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales, is due July 31 via EMPIRE. The project is described as a Western portrait blending Americana, hip-hop, and pop, unfolding like a film complete with narration, skits, and cinematic transitions. Its central character, Cheri Lee, is shaped by violence and loss, falls for an outlaw, and ends up deep inside the world she set out to destroy.

The weight of what came before

The new music arrives with considerable pressure attached. Shaboozey broke through with "A Bar Song (Tipsy)," which spent 19 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, setting a new record for time spent at No. 1 on Billboard's Radio Songs chart. The song also made him the first performer to reach the top 10 simultaneously on the Country Airplay, Pop Airplay, Adult Pop Airplay, and Rhythmic Airplay charts, and only the second song by a Black artist to lead both the Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs chart.

With The Outlaw Cherie Lee arriving July 31, Shaboozey is betting that a full narrative concept album can hold the audience he built on a single that rewrote the record books.