“The Lion King: The Gift” — the African-inspired album that Beyoncé curated as a companion to Disney’s blockbuster movie — was released last summer, it pretty much came and went.
Especially by Bey standards.But now “Black Is King” — the new visual album featuring music from “The Lion King: The Gift” that premiered on Disney+ early Friday — has given new life to the music and the message of that album, which B herself described as “a love letter to Africa.”1. Looking like the picture of natural, brown-skin beauty in a billowy white dress, Beyoncé makes her entrance cradling an infant on the beach as she sings “Bigger” — an atmospheric ballad that is one of the real highlights — as if it were a lullaby.
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