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Omolara Adeniyi

“Brown Skin Girl” is a track in Beyonce’s “The Lion King: The Gift” album is 27-track that drew inspiration from Disney’s new version of Lion King, (The Movie). The album consists of different African collaborations with Nigerian artistes dominating the list. The Gift beautifully combines R&B, hip hop and Afrobeats and it consists of the best regal visuals to celebrate culture, beauty and black girl magic. “Brown Skin Girl” is the most popular track in the album and it features Wizkid, SAINT JOHN and Blue Ivy Carter.

“Brown Skin Girl” is more like a revolutionary song and it has been trending ever since it was released, this is because a lot of people all over the world can relate to it. Skin colour has been a topic of controversy over the years due to colour discrimination that exists between the white and every other skin colour. The white is seen as a superior colour which expects every other colour to cringe in inferiority. Beyonce’s ” Brown Skin Girl” is a song that requests for a change from this perception. It portrays the beauty, worth and strength of our skin colour and urges us to embrace it because it is actually the best thing in the world.

“Brown Skin Girl” is a great song in terms of content and musicality. It is a song that would get you dancing anywhere you are. Also, it is a global song; it is not restricted to a particular country. It identifies with a total race. The empowering lyric inspires, motivates and makes you feel good about your body, skin and hair.

The song is an intentional reference to dark and brown women. She did this by mentioning brown beautiful women like Lupiter Nyong’o, Naiomi Campbell and Kelly Rowland. She made a particular description that says “Melanin too dark to throw her shade”. “Too” here is said to show the intensity of the black power and shade she is making reference to.

This song brings us back to history. The melanin women who have been discriminated, segregated, ridiculed based on their skin colour, body and hair. It is an empowerment to women who fall into this category to love their “nappy curls” to” every single curve” on their body because “the same skin that was broken is now taking over”.

“Brown Skin Girl” has received a lot of reactions from its audience and its birth a hash tag #brownskingirlchallenge where brown and dark skinned women post their pictures on their social media platforms to celebrate themselves.

 

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