The Harder They Fall Directed by Jeymes Samuel on Film’s Music – The Hollywood Reporter
The Music Behind Netflix’s Western Revision The harder it is for them to fall, co-produced by Jay-Z, is garnering special attention during its Netflix Playlist presentation on Thursday (December 2).
Jeymes Samuel, an English singer/songwriter known as The Bullitts and the film’s director/co-writer, provides commentary in a live performance video explaining five of the film’s songs. how to combine. Four of those tracks are featured on The harder they fall (Motion picture Soundtrack), reached 11th place on BillboardsLast Month’s Soundtrack Chart – Samuel’s “No Turns Back”, “Three and Thirty Years” by South African soprano Pretty Yende, “Wednesday” by jazz and blues singer Alice Smith, and “Better Than Gold” by Jamaican musician/dancehall artist Barrington Levy – and represents the range and experience of the Black Community.
“I am really careful with The harder it is for them to fall to not address slavery and racism. I just wanted to make a movie about these people living alone and it’s just a celebration of these people’s existence and our human existence, instead of living under one man, “Samuel explains in the video explaining the song “Jim Crow Count” before giving Zazie Beetz (who plays Stagecoach Mary in the film) a countdown as she steps into an engaging performance of the song-like song. parade. “But I talk about it subtly in the song and in the melody.”
With “The Fourth Child,” Samuels explains how the song recalls the better days before slavery existed and how the blue woman dances while Smith sings the song in the film representing ” the sea and the passage between. Her dance signifies hope. Everything we’ve been through as an oppressed people, we still find strength in our spirits to celebrate that hope,” he added, with the video revealing the performance. dark, tinged with Smith’s blue.
The harder it is for them to fall is one of the Netflix original series that will be carefully dissected in the Netflix Playlist, a virtual music show that unpacks the music with the people who made it happen.
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This story first appeared on Billboard.com.
