Posted on 05/15/2020 11:47:09 AM PDT by simpson96
...Washington was approached about writing the score by the film’s director, Nadia Hallgren. After watching a rough cut, Washington, who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, signed on. “I always thought Michelle Obama was an amazing person when I would watch her interviews,” he recalls, “but the chance to hear her talking about her way of thinking about life — and saying what’s important and not — was really cool, so I was definitely interested in doing it.”
The work itself turned out to be far more intense than he’d imagined. Washington had only a few short weeks to compose and record the music, which he began writing while on a jazz cruise in January. For starters, Washington scanned the Obamas’ individual playlists to get a sense of what music they gravitated toward. “They like a certain kind of Motown-ish soul and R&B,” he says. “It’s hard to put into words, but there was a feel I could hear in the music they’re into.”
In the course of those few weeks, Washington conceived interludes that played off that sense of their taste, along with the moods of particular scenes.
Washington never met Michelle or Barack Obama during the creation of the score (and has yet to encounter them since he wrapped up his work), but he would receive notes passed down from the higher-ups. He says the couple loved “Becoming” “right out of the box,” although he would also hear feedback from them about “tone and color” in certain scenes, and adjust pieces accordingly. “There was a point where someone said, ‘There’s a note from Barack Obama,’ and it was, ‘OK, I guess I can’t argue back!’ ”
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“The impossible task of dressing a really ugly woman?”
I’m imagining that... Her handmaidens trying to make her look acceptable, set to “Flight Of The Bumblebee”.
Song Judge: “Ok. Let’s hear your version of a score worthy of The Wookie”
Non descriptive song writer: (piano music begins playing) “You jail all our Black!...”
Song Judge: “THANK YOU! NEXT!”
Becoming?
Becoming what?
Becoming a Narcissist!
Would somebody please tell me anything this woman has ever done other than being Barak’s wife?
Probably sound like a Jane Fossey recording
Bovine Flatulence 🐂💨
Like an Orc battle cry?
It would sound like “Godzilla” by Blue Oyster Cult...
“Like an Orc battle cry?”
LOL, You guys are killing me!
Screech?
A moose call ... Kind of a bellowing, huffing sound. It probably appeals to other moose, or to homosexual men looking for a “beard.”
The campfire scene from Blazing Saddles.
“He says the couple loved “Transitioning“ right out of the front hole...”
“Baby Got Back”
Godzilla
I’m a Man by the Spencer Davis group.
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