Beyonce has released a new video for her song ‘Brown Skin Girl’, featuring performances by her daughter Blue Ivy and former Destiny’s Child bandmate Kelly Rowland, along with Naomi Campbell, actor Lupita Nyong’o, singers Saint Jhn and WizKid and others. It premiered Monday morning on “Good Morning America.”
While Beyonce released a video for the song last year, at the time of the first release on her company album after ‘The Lion King’ movie, the new video from her visual album “Black Is King” is based on the music from the movie.
Like many of Beyonce’s recent videos, the Jenn Nkiru-directed clip is almost more of a series of paintings than a conventional video, with Beyonce and many others appearing in a series of stunning settings and outfits. It may have been filmed several months ago because there is little social distance in evidence.
In a brief statement to “GMA” about the video, Beyonce said, “It was so important to me in ‘Brown Skin Girl’ that we represented all the different shades of brown. We wanted each character to be shot in a shelf light. “It was important that we were all together and that we all celebrate each other.”
In Variation ‘the review of “Black Is King”, Jeremy Helligar wrote: “Despite its racially charged title, ‘King’ is not only for Black people. It is also for a society of non-blacks who are conditioned to think people of African descent as less than without its own history and with limited futures.Written and directed by Beyoncé with several collaborators, ‘Black Is King’ reminds us that black life did not begin in chains.They came relatively late, but they could have a rich and complex past in do not erase the motherland. ‘History is your future,’ Beyoncé announces at the outset. ‘One day you will find yourself back where you started, but stronger.’ ”
