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Fantasia Reflects on Her Younger Self, Literally With AI, in ‘Superpower (I)’ Video

Fantasia sings "Superpower (I)" to her younger self in the music video for the song, which is featured in 'The Color Purple.'

technology has created a version of Fantasia in her red dress that she wore when she sang “Summertime” on American Idol in 2004. “Oh, my soul, you’re the reason I made it through,” she sings to her younger self over a fuzzy, midtempo backdrop of beats in a room filled with mirrors. Filmmaker Blitz Bazawule, who adapted the musical from its Broadway run (which was inspired by Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book), recently told Rolling Stone that it was the message of the movie that mattered to him, not awards.

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