One day after the audio was released, “Lift Me Up,”The soundtrack of her new song “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,”Rihanna released the official music video. You can view it right now.
The video is a fairly simple thing — Rihanna just went to a beach somewhere and had a camera crew capture her looking emotional against a sunset and twilight sky. It’s interspersed with footage from “Wakanda Forever,”It will, of course, be an emotional tale, because the context in both the story and the real life is the tragic death of Chadwick, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2020.
The song is Rihanna’s first solo single since “Lemon”2017
Alongside Rihanna’s music, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” stars Lupita Nyong’o as Nakia, Leticia Wright as Shuri, Danai Gurira as Okoye, Florence Kasumba as Ayo, Winston Duke as M’Baku, Angela Bassett as Queen Ramonda and Martin Freeman as Everett Ross, all returning from “Black Panther.” Tenoch Huerta plays Namor, the king of Talokan, joined by Dominique Thorne as future Ironheart RiRi Williams, Michaela Coel, Mabel Cadena and Alex Livinalli.
Ryan Coogler directed this film. It will be in theaters November 11.