What’s your favorite song that was featured in a movie?

@LovesJazz2 Facts.

I think a lot of people from our generation discovered Nina Simone because of that movie. I ended up doing a research paper on Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam”. @LovesJazz2

@SW-User I agree. That is where I discovered her.
Then I went to a used vinyl store and bought every record they had of hers. Your paper must have been very interesting.

She is terrific, but this is one of my favourites by Nina...in the movie Cellular. @LovesJazz2
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDLRTXIH8ws]

@ImpeccablyImperfect Another [b]awesome[/b] Nina song! Love "[i]Sinnerman[/i]" 💖

@LovesJazz2 It was interesting for me to research. It was really about the circumstances in which she wrote the song, too. She made such a drastic and virtually instantaneous shift from entertainer to activist in one evening. It’s like she reinvented herself and found her voice in the course of the one hour it took her to write that song. I can’t encourage people enough to listen to her music and to learn the stories behind it. Her records are pretty hard to find and pretty expensive when I find them, but I’m always on the lookout when I go crate diving.

@SW-User I agree. She was a true champion for civil rights.

I’m actually disappointed that it took that movie to discover her, though. She and other artists should have been part of the curriculum in history class when learning about the Civil Rights movement. @LovesJazz2

@SW-User Sadly, they never taught us about the Civil Rights movement at my school.

We just got the standard timeline view of it. My history classes in public school never delved into the cultural side of history. I’m thankful that several of my college courses did, because that’s when I truly began to understand the human side of history. Timelines and events are critical to understand, but they’re antiseptic without also exploring the human impacts. @LovesJazz2