Pocahontas' Colors Of The Wind resonates with millennials, Gen Zs

Ms Lanie Pritchett expressed her displeasure with the second inauguration of United States President Donald Trump by passionately lip-syncing a 30-year-old Disney song.

- Ashley Spencer

NEW YORK - In January, Ms Lanie Pritchett expressed her displeasure with the second inauguration of United States President Donald Trump by passionately lip-syncing a 30-year-old Disney song.

"I had this rage in me," the 22-year-old theatre major at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas said in an interview. "It was a rough day for a lot of people. I thought, I can't do much, but I can share my thoughts."

Her thoughts were encapsulated in a few lines from Colors Of The Wind, the power ballad from Disney's 1995 animated film Pocahontas. Specifically, "You think the only people who are people are the people who look and think like you / But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew".

She uploaded a TikTok video with the overlay, "me arguing with magas for the next four years" and a caption explaining that her progressive views partly stem from Pocahontas being her "favourite princess movie growing up". It quickly racked up more than 500,000 views.