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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“Music to dump patients by”
Baby got back!!!
I beat you to it. See post 7.
That’s just wrong. Lol!
My first thought was the intro to Hooked on a Feeling.
It’d sound like a 12-second 4-note fart. Or maybe a 4-second 12-note ripper...
>>It would sound like “Godzilla” by Blue Oyster Cult...
Bertha Butt Boogie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yE3IBRx2-Y
Lola
Dude Looks Like a Lady
Royal Orleans
I Think I’m Dancing With A Man
Take Your Pick
Frogs mating.
I perused all
Comments and
If it could All
Be combined,
It would Be
A Symphony!
How about “Three Times A Lady” by Eddie Murphy, aka Buckwheat.
Act Naturally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDvBcGUGuqE
“Lola”?
Kashyyykian music is an acquired taste.
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