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Beyoncé –“Spirit”+“Bigger” extended cut from Disney’s The Lion King in theaters now (Official Video)

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Beyoncé just turned the “Circle of Life” into a nine-minute family portrait.

On July 19, 2019, timed to the exact moment Disney’s photorealistic remake of The Lion King hit theaters, Beyoncé released an extended music video weaving together “Spirit” and “Bigger” — the two tracks bookending her companion album, The Lion King: The Gift. The nearly nine-minute visual folds desert cinematography, footage from the film, and a rare on-camera appearance from her seven-year-old daughter Blue Ivy Carter into a single continuous piece.

• The extended cut premiered via YouTube on July 19, 2019, combining “Spirit” (which had already debuted as a standalone visual on July 16–17) with “Bigger,” the opening track of The Lion King: The Gift.
• Blue Ivy Carter appears alongside her mother in matching flowing garments, filmed on location around Havasu Falls in Arizona and blended with clips from the film, in which Beyoncé voices the adult lioness Nala.
• “Bigger” was co-written with British singer-songwriter RAYE and Stacy Barthe, and anchors a 27-track album Beyoncé has called a “love letter to Africa.”

Two Songs, One Story

Rather than release “Spirit” and “Bigger” as separate clips, Beyoncé’s team stitched them into a single narrative arc. “Spirit” opens the piece in the register of ancestral memory and identity — the same emotional territory the film mines when Rafiki pushes Simba to reckon with who he is. “Bigger” picks up where that leaves off, shifting from inheritance to instruction: an anthem about scale, purpose, and the idea that no single life is too small to matter.

The transition between the two songs happens without a hard cut, with cinematic footage from The Lion King interpolated directly into the choreography and desert imagery. It’s a structural choice that mirrors the film’s own “Circle of Life” framing — birth, lineage, ascension — compressed into music video form.

The Havasu Falls Shoot

Much of the video’s visual identity comes from footage shot on location around Havasu Falls in Arizona, contrasted against arid, wide-open desert landscape. The monochrome costuming — stark whites and blacks against red rock and turquoise water — gives the piece a stripped-down, almost ceremonial look that avoids competing with the CGI spectacle of the film itself.

Blue Ivy’s presence is the detail most viewers zeroed in on immediately. She appears in matching flowing garments beside her mother, turning what could have been a straightforward promotional visual into something more personal — a mother-daughter framing that plays directly into the video’s themes of heritage and passed-down identity.

Beyoncé has described The Lion King: The Gift as a “love letter to Africa.”

Building The Gift

The extended video functions as the flagship visual for The Lion King: The Gift, a 27-track curated album released the same day, built around prominent African artists, producers, and American collaborators alongside Beyoncé. “Bigger,” co-written with RAYE and Stacy Barthe, sits as the album’s opening statement, while “Spirit” carries the project’s lead-single weight.

Beyoncé’s role in the film itself — voicing the adult Nala — gives the video a dual purpose: it’s promotional material for the remake and a standalone artistic statement for her own album, released in lockstep with the movie’s theatrical debut rather than trailing behind it.

The video landed the same day The Lion King opened wide, meaning Beyoncé’s visual and Disney’s box office numbers were always going to be read together — a co-release strategy she’s used before, and one that made “Spirit” impossible to separate from the film’s opening weekend conversation.