What a magnificent song (and video).  I don't understand what happened...  I didn't expect it to be a hit or anything, but it deserved to win Oscar or at least be nominated and have an amazing performance. The song is beautiful.  I never watched the Lion King live action, because TLK is my fav animated movie and I hated how they made the animals look so I am not sure how well the song fits in the film, but considering how beautiful it sounds  I'm sure it fit well, it' s a fantastic song and what makes me mad is how many bad songs get Oscar noms (and even win sometimes)...  I kinda believe the conspiracies that disney was mad that Bey didn't promote the movie and was avoiding red carpets etc. and they didn't push the song at the Oscars, because like I said literally anything gets nominated for best song, so why would a BEYONCE song from one of the biggest franchises - a song that is worthy, get snubbed? So weird. 

 

Let's praise it in this thread and give it its deserved flowers

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I'm agree because it's better than Be Alive 

Agreed

This + its parent album are so underappreciated

Not a fan. Thought this would be about Brown Skin Girl. That one deserves the world. 

27 minutes ago, JoAddams said:

I'm agree because it's better than Be Alive 

Yeah by far. 

Came for No Angel

If you remove the non B songs from the deluxe version it makes a pretty top tier Beyoncé album. I wonder how it would've done without TLK tie in. 

the whole album deserved better

Meh.

 

the best song from that project is this serve 

makes me wanna go to Ghana 

 

26 minutes ago, Supernatural94 said:

Meh.

 

the best song from that project is this serve 

makes me wanna go to Ghana 

 

Yeah this is a banger, but the point of this topic was not really a "should've been a single" kinda thing, but moreso a different type of injustice. 

https://youtu.be/hQWIN2RQ_q8?si=k52AcNCPzSVsqtRN

 

She's erased it from the career montage, which is sad 😔  some of her best work! 

Bottom of the barrel Beyoncé song from the last 10 years alongside Be Alive and II Most Wanted.

came for ha 

 

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Nah, there are better songs on The Gift worthy.

it's cute but it sounds like a typical soundtrack ballad that's been done before

Eh there were better songs on the soundtrack.

 

As a whole, The Gift did deserve to not bomb but I think that time was the absolute peak of her invulnerability and Queen B / larger than life persona and that did not help that particular project resonate. I think it would have done a bit better as a follow-up to Break My Soul / Cuff It, notwithstanding that the terrible, unwanted movie would still sink the soundtrack anyway 

50 minutes ago, Theshigo Washidu said:

Nah, there are better songs on The Gift worthy.

Well this was the big movie song tho, expecting the other songs from the album to do anything is a bit unrealistic. But yes the gift has other gems too! 

I like Brown Skin Girl more 

One of her last music videos. 

Bigger, Otherside, BSG, Find Your Way Back, and Already eat Spirit up, but it at least gave us this vocal moment 

 

 

the entire The Gift album is criminally underrated. Still think its in the top 3 of her discography 

Bigger is much much much better.

Bigger + Otherside are infinitely better to me idk 

2 hours ago, Havoc said:

One of her last music videos. 

Wait