Queen of Hearts’ Daughter Caught ‘Red’-Handed in Fiery New Music Video From ‘Descendants: The Rise of Red’

Katie Atkinson
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The Descendants franchise returns next month, and in a music video premiering exclusively on Billboard below, the latest Villain Kid is caught red-handed.

Descendants: The Rise of Red — coming to Disney+ on July 12 before making its Disney Channel debut on Aug. 9 — introduces Kylie Cantrall (High School Musical: The Musical: The Series) as Red, the daughter of the Queen of Hearts (Rita Ora) from Alice in Wonderland. The new video is for Cantrall’s signature song, simply titled “Red,” which sees her character evading the Wonderland soldiers (including Alex Boniello’s singing guard) protecting her queen mother as she skulks around in the shadows of the castle grounds.

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“I’m on a path of destruction, this is gonna be fun,” Cantrall sings with a glint in her eye, wearing a bedazzled hood and red eye mask covered in hearts and throwing a red balloon filled with blood-red paint at a giant portrait of her tyrannical mom.

“’Red’ is one of my favorite numbers in the film,” Cantrall tells Billboard of the original song. “It’s this explosive number – it’s bold and it’s fierce, kind of who Red is. It gives people a really cool look inside Wonderland and the trouble and mischief that Red gets up to when the lights go down and the village goes to sleep, she roams around the town and gets to be free and do her thing. The song shows who she is at her core and will give the audience a chance to really get to know her.”

In The Rise of Red — the fourth film in the Descendants franchise and the first since 2021’s The Royal Wedding — Cantrall’s Red teams up with Chloe (Malia Baker), the daughter of Cinderella (Brandy, reprising the role almost 30 years later), to travel back in time and try to prevent the Queen of Hearts’ evil reign.

In addition to the music video, fans can find “Red” on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and other digital platforms, and the film’s soundtrack is available for pre-order and pre-add via Walt Disney Records.

Descendants: The Rise of Red is directed by Jennifer Phang, with a script from Dan Frey and Russell Sommer, and executive-produced by Suzanne Todd and Gary Marsh. The movie is choreographed by Ashley Wallen (The Greatest Showman) with a score by Torin Borrowdale (Searching).

Watch the “Red” video premiere below before the movie hits Disney+ on July 12.

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