Blue Ivy has bested us again. Despite being just seven years old, Beyonce’s daughter has scored her very first hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The pop queen of all of our futures collaborated with her mother on the track ‘Brown Skin Girl’, one of the standout songs on Beyoncé’s The Lion King-inspired soundtrack album Spirit.
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Beyoncé is first seen in the ‘Spirit’ music video wearing a pink and red ruffled gown, a possible homage to the iconic sunset with which the video and The Lion King both open.
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The star is surrounded by dancers in clay red ensembles and her eldest daughter Blue Ivy. The seven-year-old wears a similar dress to her mother, and her hair is dyed a dusky shade of red.
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Much of the music video involves Beyoncé mimicking her natural surroundings, as can been seen here as she stands in front of a waterfall wearing a royal blue gown.
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The singer lies in a body of water while clad in blue, further emphasising the connection between her looks and her setting.
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The star, who plays Nala in the 2019 live-action reboot of The Lion King appears to dress like a zebra, wearing a black and white ensemble while surrounded by singers dressed in bright pink and green. This scene is immediately followed by a clip from the film, in which a young Simba and Nala race through a flock of flamingos.
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Beyoncé stands out from her backing singers and dancers as she walks amongst them, the only black and white aspect of the composition.
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The star looks ethereal in a sheer pink gown, surrounded by a faint, pink mist.
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The vivacity of the colours in the ‘Spirit’ music video are brought to the forefront of this scene, as Beyoncé walks alone in a fuchsia gown in a desert landscape.
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The multi-award winning artist wears a lime green dress, while her dancers behind her don slightly paler green outfits. The star accessorises with large gold hoops, cuffs and rings, and wears her hair in braids similar to the ones she wore in her ‘Formation’ music video.
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The singer and her troupe mimic the rocky landscape in front of which they are dancing, creating fluid movements with their bodies in perfect unison.
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Beyoncé and her dancers stand in a body of water, their bright red outfits contrasting with the dark green shades of the trees and surrounding foliage.
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The singer leans up against a bare tree in her red netted dress, a red, rocky landscape visible in the background.
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The Tree of Life in The Lion King is a thick baobab tree, and is the dwelling of the spiritual mandrill Rafiki. Here, Beyoncé stands in front of a white tree, dressed in a matching embellished, white gown with a netted train. Her dancers sit in two lines at her feet, as though they are the tree’s roots.
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Beyoncé adds to her already ornate outfit with a white beaded face mask.
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The star dances vigorously in a white, feathered outfit, as snapshots of the scene in The Lion King in which Scar and Simba battle one another are shown.
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The Emmy-nominated singer dons a calming shade of midnight blue, matching the soothing blue shade of the sky.
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Beyoncé’s jumpsuit is designed with tassles on the sleeves, a feature which is displayed as the star raises her arms to the sky.
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The star wears a coral-orange pleated gown, matching the orange-coloured rock surface in the background of the composition.
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Beyoncé is first seen in the ‘Spirit’ music video wearing a pink and red ruffled gown, a possible homage to the iconic sunset with which the video and The Lion King both open.
YouTube/Beyoncé
2/18
The star is surrounded by dancers in clay red ensembles and her eldest daughter Blue Ivy. The seven-year-old wears a similar dress to her mother, and her hair is dyed a dusky shade of red.
YouTube/Beyoncé
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Much of the music video involves Beyoncé mimicking her natural surroundings, as can been seen here as she stands in front of a waterfall wearing a royal blue gown.
YouTube/Beyoncé
4/18
The singer lies in a body of water while clad in blue, further emphasising the connection between her looks and her setting.
YouTube/Beyoncé
5/18
The star, who plays Nala in the 2019 live-action reboot of The Lion King appears to dress like a zebra, wearing a black and white ensemble while surrounded by singers dressed in bright pink and green. This scene is immediately followed by a clip from the film, in which a young Simba and Nala race through a flock of flamingos.
YouTube/Beyoncé
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Beyoncé stands out from her backing singers and dancers as she walks amongst them, the only black and white aspect of the composition.
YouTube/Beyoncé
7/18
The star looks ethereal in a sheer pink gown, surrounded by a faint, pink mist.
YouTube/Beyoncé
8/18
The vivacity of the colours in the ‘Spirit’ music video are brought to the forefront of this scene, as Beyoncé walks alone in a fuchsia gown in a desert landscape.
YouTube/Beyoncé
9/18
The multi-award winning artist wears a lime green dress, while her dancers behind her don slightly paler green outfits. The star accessorises with large gold hoops, cuffs and rings, and wears her hair in braids similar to the ones she wore in her ‘Formation’ music video.
YouTube/Beyoncé
10/18
The singer and her troupe mimic the rocky landscape in front of which they are dancing, creating fluid movements with their bodies in perfect unison.
YouTube/Beyoncé
11/18
Beyoncé and her dancers stand in a body of water, their bright red outfits contrasting with the dark green shades of the trees and surrounding foliage.
YouTube/Beyoncé
12/18
The singer leans up against a bare tree in her red netted dress, a red, rocky landscape visible in the background.
YouTube/Beyoncé
13/18
The Tree of Life in The Lion King is a thick baobab tree, and is the dwelling of the spiritual mandrill Rafiki. Here, Beyoncé stands in front of a white tree, dressed in a matching embellished, white gown with a netted train. Her dancers sit in two lines at her feet, as though they are the tree’s roots.
YouTube/Beyoncé
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Beyoncé adds to her already ornate outfit with a white beaded face mask.
YouTube/Beyoncé
15/18
The star dances vigorously in a white, feathered outfit, as snapshots of the scene in The Lion King in which Scar and Simba battle one another are shown.
YouTube/Beyoncé
16/18
The Emmy-nominated singer dons a calming shade of midnight blue, matching the soothing blue shade of the sky.
YouTube/Beyoncé
17/18
Beyoncé’s jumpsuit is designed with tassles on the sleeves, a feature which is displayed as the star raises her arms to the sky.
YouTube/Beyoncé
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The star wears a coral-orange pleated gown, matching the orange-coloured rock surface in the background of the composition.
YouTube/Beyoncé
The track has proven to be one of its biggest hits, placing at 77 on the Hot 100. Blue Ivy, who is credited as one of the track’s songwriters, can be heard at the beginning and end of the song. She was previously a featured artist on her father Jay-Z’s track ‘Glory’, and her mother’s track ‘Blue’.
Unfortunately for the Knowles-Carter family, Blue Ivy can’t claim to be the youngest ever artist to appear on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. That record is still held by the French pop singer Jordy, who charted in 1993 aged five years old with his single ‘It’s Tough to Be a Baby’.
Jordy fell out of the public eye amid speculation about the motives behind his ascent to stardom and the failure of a children’s theme park named Jordy’s Farm. He did, however, manage to squeeze in a cameo in the John Travolta/Kirstie Alley threequel Look Who’s Talking Now before he returned to normal life.
