Blue Ivy Makes a Beautiful Cameo in Beyoncé's "Spirit" Music Video

Jonathan Borge
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From Oprah Magazine

2019 is an excellent time to be a Beyoncé fan.

Earlier this year, Queen Bey made waves with the release of her Coachella-centric Netflix special, Homecoming. And now, she’s continuously in the news for The Lion King this summer: first for simply starring in it, then for appearing at the movie’s red carpet premiere with 7-year-old daughter Blue Ivy, and now for the new music she’s created.

In alignment with Robin Roberts’s ABC special The Lion King: Can You Feel the Love Tonight on Tuesday, Beyoncé dropped the music video for “Spirit,” the first single off the entirely new album she executive produced, The Lion King: The Gift. As some fans guessed previously, the clip finds Beyoncé in a dessert landscape that in our opinion resembles the African lands seen in the Disney live-action remake.

Beyoncé, of course, leads us through a kaleidoscopic mix of beautiful choreography and brightly-colored outfits as she sings and dances in front of dozens of dancers and basically takes our breath away. And while the video could have ended right there, Queen Bey tapped her 7-year-old old daughter for a gorgeous cameo in which they each rock matching pink gowns.

Fans, naturally, lost it after watching.



On Tuesday morning, Beyoncé took to Facebook to release the album’s gloriously gilded cover art—and the official track list for the new album also made the rounds on Instagram. See the official list below, which by the way features a new song with Blue Ivy.

  • “Bigger”— Beyonce

  • “Find Your Way Back (Circle of Life)”—Beyoncé

  • “Don’t Jealous Me”—Tekno / Yemi Alade / Mr. Eazi:

  • “Ja Ara E”—Burna Boy

  • “The Nile”—Beyoncé / Kendrick Lamar

  • “Mood 4 Eva”—Beyoncé / Jay-Z / Childish Gambino

  • “Water”—Salatiel / Pharrell / Beyoncé

  • “Brown Skin Girl”—Blue Ivy Carter / Saint Jhn / WizKid / Beyoncé

  • “Keys to the Kingdom”—Tiwa Savage / Mr. Eazi

  • “Otherside”—Beyoncé

  • “Already”—Beyoncé / Shatta Wale

  • “My Power”—Tierra Whack / Beyoncé / Busiswa / Yemi Alade / Moonchild Sanelly

  • “Scar”—070 Shake / Jessie Reyez

  • “Spirit”—Beyoncé

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The track list and talented artists for Beyoncé’s “love letter to Africa.” The album The Lion King:The Gift was executive produced by @Beyoncé. “This is sonic cinema,” said Beyoncé. “This is a new experience of storytelling. I wanted to do more than find a collection of songs that were inspired by the film. It is a mixture of genres and collaboration that isn’t one sound. It is influenced by everything from R&B, pop, hip hop and Afro Beat.”

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“This soundtrack is a love letter to Africa and I wanted to make sure we found the best talent from Africa, and not just use some of the sounds and did my interpretation of it. I wanted it to be authentic to what is beautiful about the music in Africa,” Beyoncé told ABC News. “We’ve kind of created our own genre. The soundtrack becomes visual in your mind…it’s more than just the music because each song tells the story of the film.”

Watch the music video below—and catch The Lion King in theaters on July 19.

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