Maxwell has a habit of making us wait with thirst between his albums, as he did with his long-awaited debut of BLACKsummers'night in 2009 with a sequel that took seven years to arrive. GIPHY

Now, the R&B crooner is back with his new single "Shame." The track will appear on the final album of his blacksummers'NIGHT trilogy, entitled NIGHT, which is slated for a 2019 release. The 45-year-old recently released a striking visual to accompany the single in the form of a stunning music video. 

Directed by Christopher Renz and Gerard Bush, the video is brimming with beautiful Black women learning to embrace themselves. 

"I just feel that the veils represent the shame that I think a lot of Black women feel about their beauty, about their features and about their place in society," he told Billboard in a recent interview. "So I think the veils play a pretty big role with that."

"It’s interesting because even though the George Michael video in terms of 'Freedom' plays into it, it’s Aretha Franklin that plays a big role, particularly her song ['Think (Freedom)'] where she does sing, 'Freedom! Freedom!' and how that freedom played a role in not only women’s liberation but in all people who are marginalized on some level and have been held down, be it African-American, be it people of the LGBTQ community, be it anyone whose voice hasn’t been given the right or given the space or given the platform."

Like the lyrics say, "Feel no shame / I feel no shame / Feel no less than the real." 

"I just wanted all people who feel that they’re veiled in some sort of shame or veiled in some sort of compartmentalized experience to unveil themselves and to let their face be known and let their stories be known. And that’s kind of what the video is about," he noted.

Watch the full video below: 

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