The Footloose actor, 64, took to Twitter and Instagram on Sunday, August 28, to share his version of the 40-year-old singer’s hit tune.
“Hot day, hot song. The goats and I are feeling Heated, @Beyonce,” he captioned the clip of himself playing the guitar alongside his goats. “Loving this track. #GoatSongs #Renaissance.”
At the time of this writing, the video had been viewed on Twitter nearly 1 million times and was liked over 36,000 times. On Instagram, it was watched over 600,000 times and liked by more than 63,000 people.
“This very honestly slaps…,” author Crystal Fleming tweeted via her verified account.
“Wow this is good af we need a longer version of this,” someone else commented on the platform, while a third said, “Kevin Bacon serenading his goats is the best thing on the internet today.”
Another person, meanwhile, suggested that Bacon’s wife, Kyra Sedgwick, could have taken the cute clip to the next level.
“The only thing that would’ve made this video better is @kyrasedgwick doing a little 2-step or shoulder bop in the background,” the commenter wrote, “so we know the whole fam has been listening to Renaissance.”
Beyoncé—whose full name is Beyoncé Giselle Knowles—released Renaissance, her latest album, on July 29. It quickly rose to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, marking the biggest debut by a woman artist so far this year.
Bacon, who starred in Apollo 13 and many other films, has been posting acoustic versions of popular songs using the hashtag #GoatSongs on social media. Recently, he covered Harry Styles’ “Late Night Talking,” the Beatles’ “When I’m Sixty-Four” and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U.”
Though many know the father of two—who shares children Travis Bacon, 33, and Sosie Bacon, 30, with Sedgwick, 57—as an actor, he’s also a musician.
Bacon has been in the Bacon Brothers duo since 1995. He and his brother, Michael Bacon, jammed together as kids and formed the group in the mid-’90s.
According to their website’s “About” page, their style is a little bit of everything and is known as “Forosoco”—“a blend of folk, rock, soul and country influences.”
Over the years, they’ve traveled the world to perform their music and played top venues like New York’s Carnegie Hall and the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.
“We’re always trying to break out of our specific habits and try something new,” Kevin Bacon said on the page. “We’re two songwriters who have a lot of different influences, and we’ve learned to embrace that reality. As long as it comes from us, it sounds like us.”
Added Michael Bacon: “If you’re an athlete or a dancer, you usually have to launch a new career by the time you’re 40. We’re lucky. We’re still moving forward and getting better, and that’s where we like to be.”
Newsweek reached out to Bacon’s and Knowles’ representatives for comment.
