you are on the Danyel Smith playlist list. |
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so this is your 1 hours and 13 minutes of sublime sound |
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this film is good-good. it was released in 2020. how did i miss it? |
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It's sexy. It's beyond romantic and emotional. And Sylvie's Love (an Amazon Original) is for music obsessives. It's also about ambition. And difficult decisions. All this tied up in the milieu of 1950s and ‘60s Blackness and culture — from the record stores to the jazz clubs to the apartment parties to the charm schools. The great Nancy Wilson's music is all up and throughout. And did I mention the passionate midnight moment at The Plaza Hotel? And this cast? Listennnn. Tessa Thompson (Dear White People; Thor), Nnmandi Asomugha (Friday Night Lights, Crown Heights) who produced as well, Alano Miller (Jane The Virgin, Underground), Aja Naomi King (How To Get Away With Murder, A Girl From Mogadishu), Lance Reddick (Resident Evil, Bosch). These performances are nuanced, and brilliant. The characters in this film live gloriously musical lives. And they find complicated, and extraordinary love. Music for you: I'm linking to the jazzy-moody-emo Sylvie's Love soundtrack at TIDAL. There's a very fourth-date-two-person-dinner-party Sylvie playlist at Spotify. Below ⬇️ is a link to the soundtrack of Chapter 2 of my Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop. The soundtrack/playlist centers the Dixie Cups (an under-celebrated girl group of the early 1960s) and features music from the Pretenders, the Marvelettes, Big Mama Thornton, Frankie Lymon and so much more. It woooooorks. |
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🐇 some rabbit holes for you ⤵ |
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⬆️ the Dixie Cups — three girls out of the housing projects of New Orleans ⬆️ |
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