{"id":797701,"date":"2019-07-16T19:56:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T01:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=859505"},"modified":"2019-07-16T19:56:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T01:56:14","slug":"watch-beyonces-striking-vibrant-new-spirit-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-beyonces-striking-vibrant-new-spirit-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Beyonce\u2019s Striking, Vibrant New \u2018Spirit\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beyonc\u00e9 unveiled the new video for her song \u201cSpirit<\/a>\u201d during an ABC News primetime special on Tuesday called The Lion King: Can You Feel the Love Tonight With Robin Roberts<\/em>. The special featured interviews with the singer, fellow members of the remake\u2019s new cast and director Jon Favreau, alongside cast members and others involved in the original 1994 animated and music-driven The Lion King<\/em> film and the stage production that followed.<\/p>\n

In the new video for the song \u201cSpirit,\u201d which appears in the reboot of the The<\/em> Lion King<\/em>, its soundtrack and on Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s executive produced and curated The Lion King: the Gift<\/em>, clips from the movie are interspersed with beautiful shots in vibrant locales, including by waterfalls and in bodies of water, flanked by mountains and in night and daytime settings. It features Beyonc\u00e9 and a cast of dancers in a variety of settings dancing and striking poses in colorful costumes. Her daughter Blue Ivy also makes a cameo. The song about resilience opens with resonant call-and-response voices and features piano and orchestral touches with gospel-tipped choruses. \u201cRise up to the light in the sky, yeah,\u201d Beyonc\u00e9 sings. \u201cWatch the light lift your heart up\/Burn your flame through the night.\u201d<\/p>\n

During Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s interview with Roberts, she said that the original film was \u201cthe first Disney movie that brought me to tears\u201d and she praised director Favreau and the technologies employed in the new version. She added that the movie has \u201can incredible spirit\u201d that \u201ctakes you on so many emotional rides,\u201d which is captured in the \u201cSpirit\u201d video. \u201cThe concept of the video is to show how God is the art director,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe soundtrack is a love letter to Africa, and I wanted to make sure we found the best talent from Africa and not just, you know, use some of the sounds and did my interpretation of it,\u201d Beyonc\u00e9 explained in a preview clip<\/a> from the special. \u201cI wanted it to be authentic to what is beautiful about the music in Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the drums, the chants \u2014 all of these incredible new sounds mixed with some of the producers from America, we\u2019ve kind of created our own genre. And I feel like the soundtrack, it becomes visual in your mind,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt\u2019s a soundscape, it\u2019s more than just the music because each song tells the story of the film.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Lion King: the Gift<\/em> will be released on Friday, the same day The Lion King<\/em> remake premieres in theaters.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beyonc\u00e9 unveiled the new video for her song \u201cSpirit\u201d during an ABC News primetime special on Tuesday called The Lion King: Can You Feel the Love Tonight With Robin Roberts. The special featured interviews with the singer, fellow members of the remake\u2019s new cast and director Jon Favreau, alongside cast members and others involved in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-797701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 09:51:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}