Halle Bailey: Mentored by diva Beyoncé, from being criticized as a "black hole" to the trump card of "The Little Mermaid"

The beauty of young star Halle Bailey was once criticized as unqualified to take on the role of "The Little Mermaid" in this live-action version of Disney. But until now, when the movie hit theaters, most of the skeptical audiences had to "turn the car".

Who is Halle Bailey?

Halle Bailey was born in 2000, is a name that is too familiar to many people today. Born and raised in Mableton, Georgia, USA. She then moved to Los Angeles in mid-2012. The sisters started their singing career when Chloe sang "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Since then, they have started to write their own songs as well as learn to play more instruments. And now she is becoming one of the singers with an extremely impressive voice, actress, and music producer who is known and admired by many people.

In the process of pursuing their music, Halle Bailey and her sister respectively launched a youtube channel with a cover of Beyoncé's song "Best Thing I Never Had". The first video that both sisters released left an impression and resonated. This is considered as the beginning of his artistic career. After that, the duo equipped themselves with the most necessary things to produce a series of covers that left an impression on the audience, in April 2012 both sisters debuted on a talk show. with an appearance on The Ellen.

In 2013, the Bailey sisters won and won the top prize in season 5 of Radio Disney's The Next Big Thing. The luck of collaborating with Beyoncé is also one of the launch pads to help these sisters become successful on their singing path.

Not long after, she was also signed to a contract with Parkwood Entertainment. Since then this Diva has become a mentor to the 2 sisters. He even had a European tour of his own. At the same time, in 2017 the two sisters also appeared on Beyoncé's own album Lemonade.

Since then, the two have been together and released many albums and music discs. As well as having real performances that many audiences love. Her songs also quickly rose in the charts. It is the girl with an extremely outstanding singing style that has been nominated and honored in a number of awards ceremonies such as NAACP Image Awards 2020, Grammy Awards 2021.

Being racist

Like many other children, the Bailey sisters grew up with Disney's fairy tales and always had an endless dream and desire for these movies, when they were cast as princess Ariel.

However, since the beginning of the project announcement, Disney and Bailey have faced a series of criticism and disparagement from the audience. They think that changing Ariel's skin color is unacceptable, especially when the audience is so used to the white, red-haired Ariel image.

Last year, when the first trailer of the film was released, it became the topic of discussion among netizens. After only 2 days of release, the film's commercial has received more than 9 million views, more than 300,000 likes but more than 1.3 million "dislikes". This number is increasing day by day, causing Walt Disney Studios' YouTube channel to hide the number of dislikes.

Critic D. Jeremy commented: "Attributing a Nordic cultural character to an African-American actor is an infringement on the culture of people of color. Because of the way people of African descent represent themselves. closeness through music, love, social history are all different and unrelated to the origin and context of the mermaid character's birth".

Sharing with Edition magazine, the beauty revealed that she was shocked by being racist.

However, she overcame the shock after receiving the support of a part of the audience. On social networking platforms, many users have shared the moment when children of color first saw Halle Bailey's mermaid creation. They were all very happy and excited when they found out that Ariel has the same skin color as them.

"Watching the reactions of children and girls of color made me really emotional," Halle said. She even shared a video that summarizes these moments.

Impressive performance makes antis have to "turn the car"

However, after the early critical premieres, the female lead Halle Bailey received "winged" praise, even she was called "The most perfect mermaid on screen".

The Daily Beast pointed out that Disney's film actually has many holes with unstable pacing. However, the "miracle" that Halle Bailey brought completely "saved" the whole movie. The actress was praised for bringing the perfect Ariel image and will become "an iconic role for a new generation".

Many other critics also praised Halle Bailey's vocals. Variety even compared the scene of the song Part of Your World in the movie with Jennifer Hudson's top performance in Dreamgirls - the scene that helped Jennifer bring home an Oscar.

In fact, from the very beginning, Disney confirmed the choice of Halle Bailey for the role of the mermaid Ariel thanks to her powerful but still melodious and fairy-tale voice. Therefore, the fact that the star born in 2000 was praised by critics for her voice is not surprising.

Some critics are quite indifferent to the film, saying that the live-action Mermaid does not have too much new and interesting. However, all agree that Halle Bailey absolutely shines in the lead actress role. Indie Wire even believes that Halle Bailey's own story with stepping up to the public opinion to become a black mermaid deserves to be made into a separate movie.

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