{"id":799478,"date":"2019-09-15T12:19:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T18:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=884705"},"modified":"2019-09-15T12:19:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T18:19:24","slug":"beyonce-announces-making-the-gift-tv-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/beyonce-announces-making-the-gift-tv-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyonce Announces \u2018Making the Gift\u2019 TV Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-15-at-10.59.55-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Beyonc\u00e9 and ABC surprised fans Sunday with the announcement of <em>Making the Gift<\/em>, a behind-the-scenes special documenting the making of her recent <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-lion-king\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-lion-king\" data-tag=\"the-lion-king\">The Lion King<\/a><\/em> companion album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/the-lion-king-the-gift-862889\/\"><em>The Gift<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Like the surprise arrivals of Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s self-titled album, the Carters\u2019 Everything Is Love and her Homecoming special, <em>Beyonc\u00e9 Presents: Making the Gift<\/em> arrives with little warning: The special will air Monday night at 10 p.m. following <em>Dancing With the Stars<\/em> on ABC, or \u201cABeyC\u201d as the network branded itself Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the 30-second trailer, the special promises to provide an \u201cintimate\u201d look at the creation of every song on <em>The Gift<\/em>, which features guests like Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell, Jay-Z, co-star Childish Gambino and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/how-beyonce-made-the-lion-king-the-gift-861019\/\">an impressive roster of emerging African musicians<\/a>. The preview also shows exclusive footage of the making of the <em>The Gift<\/em>\u2018s music videos, recording sessions and more.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"3.969465648855\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">ABeyC activated. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Beyonce?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@Beyonce<\/a> Presents: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MakingTheGift?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#MakingTheGift<\/a>. Tomorrow. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/suKar1CcQ4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/suKar1CcQ4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABeyC (@ABCNetwork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCNetwork\/status\/1173289378501677056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">September 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/beyonce-making-the-gift-tv-special-lion-king-884705\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyonc\u00e9 and ABC surprised fans Sunday with the announcement of Making the Gift, a behind-the-scenes special documenting the making of her recent The Lion King companion album The Gift. Like the surprise arrivals of Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s self-titled album, the Carters\u2019 Everything Is Love and her Homecoming special, Beyonc\u00e9 Presents: Making the Gift arrives with little warning: [&hellip;]<\/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-799478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 20:57:08","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\/799478","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=799478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}