From Spotify, this is Dissect, long form musical analysis broken into short digestible

episodes. I'm Cole Kushna and. T. Shodia. Today we continue our six-part examination of Blackest King by Beyoncée.

On our last episode, we followed the film's protagonist Simba as he was born from the

womb of the universe and floated down the Nile to the ocean shore where he meets

Beyonce, who plays Simba's spirit guide.

From here we watched Simba's life unfold in both the physical and spiritual realms.

On Bigger, Simba learned his divine significance and royal lineage as he was anointed by a priest in the physical realm and Beyonce in the spiritual realm.

On find your way back, Simba's father, Mufasa taught him to look up at the stars in the physical realm to find guidance from his ancestors in the spiritual realm.

This interplay between realms continues as Simba leaves the safety of his home and ventures out into the world.

We see an aerial view over a present-day African neighborhood filled with dilapidated

buildings while we hear the voice of Scar, establishing this as his territory.

Go back to your den, Simba. I refuses to babysit Simba suggests that he'll be left alone to play without any adult supervision as he embarks out into the world for the first time on his own.

Fittingly, we next see Simma by himself, running up to a building.

He stops outside the building and bends over to catch his breath.

This shot seems to illustrate the line,

I got big enough to run around,

Daddy left me outside from find your way back.

These lyrics suggest that Simba's father

has granted him the freedom to play outside

in the big world under the assumption that Simba has learned what he needs. has

the freedom to play outside in the big world under the assumption that Simba has learned what he needs to find his way back home.

We also notice that Simba is wearing the same white pants he wore on the beach with Beyonce during bigger

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