Beyoncé, “Be Alive” | Music Lifts 🎶 🏋

In the 12^th edition of Lit Music That Lifts, we’re uplifted by Beyoncé performing, “Be Alive (Original Song from the Motion Picture “King Richard”).”

Welcome to Lit Music That Lifts (LMTL), or Music Lifts 🎶 🏋 for short! Music Lifts seeks to highlight songs that encourage, inspire, and uplift the spirit; songs that exude fortitude, positivity, and resolve, even in the face of adversity.  Featured songs aren’t genre-specific; songs may or may not be faith-based. The goal is for these songs to make you feel better – be LIFTED to new heights!  So, for the 12^th edition of Music Lifts 🎶 🏋 (2022), we highlight 🎵 “Be Alive (Original Song from the Motion Picture “King Richard”)” as performed by 🎙 Beyoncé.

“It feels so good to be alive / Got all my family by my side…”  🏆 Grammy-winning R&B/pop singer 🎙 Beyoncé ‘brings the heat’ on 🎵 “Be Alive,” an original song from the motion picture, King Richard. Beyoncé deservingly earned an 🏆 Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song. On “Be Alive,” she serves up powerful lead vocals. She’s commanding but in total control, never growing overwrought.  Also impressive are glorious, harmonized vocals.  I love the warmth of her tone that’s introduced at the beginning. In the intro, she prefaces the eventual chorus, which is memorable and quite tuneful. The chorus, excerpted above, continues as follows:

“…Couldn’t wipe this black off if I tried

That’s why I lift my head with pride

Now we’re sitting on top of the world again, huh.”

In the verses, Beyoncé focuses on fighting and working hard to attain success – it wasn’t easy and wasn’t absent of adversity. “The path was never paved with gold,” she sings in the first verse, adding, “We worked and built this on our own.” Despite adversity, there’s also sense of black achievement and black excellence, which is particularly uplifting and encouraging to the black community (“Look how we’ve been fighting to stay alive / So, when we win, we will have pride”). Shout out superb production work by 🎛 Dixson, which provides the perfect palette for Bey to sing this inspired number over.

Appears in 🔻:

• 13 Captivating Songs That are Alive & Well

🎙 Beyoncé • 🎵 “Be Alive (Original Song from the Motion Picture “King Richard”)” • 🏷 Parkwood / Columbia • 📅 2021

Beyoncé, “Be Alive”: Music Lifts 🎶 🏋 No. 12 (2022) [📷: Arek Socha, Benjamin Balazs, Brent Faulkner, Clker-Free-Vector-Images, Columbia, Curb, Ketut Subiyanto, The Musical Hype, Parkwood, Pexels, Pixabay, Word Entertainment]