Beyoncé surprises Disney fans with a song 1:15
(CNN) - Finally, the time has come for Beyoncé's followers to await. The 24-time Grammy Award-winning queen of pop released her long-awaited visual album "Black Is King," inspired by "The Lion King," on Disney +.
The production, based on the singer's soundtrack album "The Lion King: The Gift" of the remake of the 2019 Disney film, takes up the film's teachings for "Today's Young Kings and Queens day in search of their own crowns, "said Disney + in a statement, saying it is a" celebratory memory for the world of black history. "
The vibrant film album was produced over a year and features a diverse cast and crew, hailing from the various locations where it was filmed, including New York, Los Angeles, South Africa, West Africa, London, and Belgium.
The singer, who also directed and was an executive producer of this work, first published a preview of the album on YouTube on July 19, in a video that has already accumulated more than 2.7 million views.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69MO7yU0d70&feature=emb_title
The album includes extended versions of songs like "My Power", "Brown Skin Girl", "Mood 4 Eva" and "Already".
You can watch the 'Already' video, featuring Shatta Wale and Major Lazer, on Beyoncé's official YouTube channel below.
Beyoncé's first visual album was her namesake "Beyoncé," released in 2013, with hits such as "Drunk In Love" and "XO." Her second such work, "Lemonade," released to HBO in 2016, was dreamy and showcases a powerful mix of images, spoken words, confessions, and lyrics with themes of love, betrayal, empowerment, tribalism, and family.
Earlier that year, the artist released her hit song "Formation" from her new job, featuring a video with images closely aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement. A scene from the clip shows a young African American man in a hooded sweatshirt, dancing in front of a line of police wearing riot gear. Then the phrase "Stop Shooting Us" appears on a graffiti on a wall.
There was some controversy over that production and over the “Black Panther” costumes worn by the dancers, in a presentation during the Super Bowl halftime show.
Some police departments argued that the images pointed to being against law enforcement. Followers, however, supported the singer, with messages like this on Twitter: “The American police are intimidating Beyoncé, because she asked the police not to kill black people, please and thank you! ».
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