Before touching down on what Beyoncé has called her “love letter to Africa,” it’s important to see what may have brought her to the mother of mankind, with its wide vistas and sonic planes, for “Th…
Before touching down on what Beyoncé has called her “love letter to Africa,” it’s important to see what may have brought her to the mother of mankind, with its wide vistas and sonic planes, for “The Gift” in the first place — beyond, of course, voicing Nala in the film and whatever international marketing tie-ins are to come.
: The Gift” is one for her kids, namely Blue Ivy Carter, who appears by mom’s side in the “Spirit” video, as well as in this album’s spaciously soulful and playfully celebratory “Brown Skin Girl.”But this dedication to youth — her children and the universal we — does not make her companion to the film’s official sleek score and soundtrack from Hans Zimmer, Elton John and Tim Rice any sort of “kids” album.
The album’s warm production washes and anthemic musicality may not have the same avant-garde sway or weird rhythmic kink of its immediate aforementioned predecessors, but what “The Lion King: The Gift” misses in messiness, it makes up for in flavor, heart and grandeur without treacle. Well, notmuch treacle; anything that starts with James Earl Jones’ narration is bound to have its own blend of gravitas and sentimentalism.
Which brings up another important point: that, back in 2009, Jay-Z, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith were first time co-producers for the Broadway musical “Fela!,” based on the life of the late Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. A gorgeous and hypnotic blend of jazz, funk and Africana have surely been part of the Carter household ever since.
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