When Disney asked Kim Kardashian’s 10-year-old daughter, North West, to sing I Just Can’t Wait to be King at the Hollywood Bowl for The Lion King ’s 30th anniversary, they were basically inviting the masses to troll her. A nepo baby of mega proportions performing a number from one of the most famous musicals in history? She needed to channel Simba as though there were no tomorrow. But channel Simba she did not.

West sauntered across the stage, looking as uninspired about being there as she was by her mother’s Met Gala looks , and wearing what could only be described as “lion streetwear”. Meanwhile, exquisitely costumed backup dancers leapt and pranced around her, clearly compensating for the astounding lack of energy centre-stage. And her final note, replete with a juicy octave jump, has since become a go-to meme on TikTok .

If I were West, I’d be mortified. After all, I still have nightmares about a tap dance I messed up during a school performance of Anything Goes , and no one cared who my parents were. But that is why I’m awed by this 10-year-old.

Not because of the SKIMS empire she’ll eventually inherit, or the fact her wardrobe is probably 15 times the size of mine, but because she doesn’t seem to care what others think of her. Sure, she doesn’t have great singing chops, and plenty of other professionally trained performers could have taken her place. But do these doubts seem to haunt her on stage? Absolutely not, she’s too busy enjoying being a k.