If music is a tool that helps viewers gain a better emotional understanding of what they’re watching, then “Atlanta” wielded the songs on its soundtrack like a tricked-out Leatherman with 19 distinct uses (including three different types of can opener). Music playing such a significant role shouldn’t be surprising for a series whose protagonist, Earn Marks (Donald Glover), is managing the burgeoning rap career of his cousin, Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles (Brian Tyree Henry). But that music had a versatility tailored to match “Atlanta,” a show where a harrowing trip to a showbiz house of horrors and a genuinely touching tribute to an animated classic were equally at home.
The needle drops on “Atlanta” often do more than one thing at a time: Informing the show’s specific sense of place, revealing what characters are feeling in ways that add to the actors’ expressions, giving the audience a poetic...
The needle drops on “Atlanta” often do more than one thing at a time: Informing the show’s specific sense of place, revealing what characters are feeling in ways that add to the actors’ expressions, giving the audience a poetic...
- 11/10/2022
- by Sarah Shachat
- Indiewire
When considering Rolling Stone’s list of the 200 Greatest Dance Songs All Time, one name kept popping up while examining decade-after-decade of hits: producer and guitarist Nile Rodgers.
The Chic leader says he owes his entire dance-music career to three songs. One night in the mid Seventies, he went to a club in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village and at one point, the DJ played the winning trifecta of Donna Summer’s “I Love to Love You Baby,” the Village People’s “San Francisco,” and Eddie Kendricks’ “Girl, You Need a...
The Chic leader says he owes his entire dance-music career to three songs. One night in the mid Seventies, he went to a club in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village and at one point, the DJ played the winning trifecta of Donna Summer’s “I Love to Love You Baby,” the Village People’s “San Francisco,” and Eddie Kendricks’ “Girl, You Need a...
- 7/25/2022
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
For Brian Tyree Henry, all the world’s a stage -- literally. As a black man, he refuses to be pigeonholed into what some may think his 6-foot-2 frame projects, and he enjoys turning those presumptions on their ear.
“One day in Atlanta, I was driving my Hyundai Sonata and I saw a Suburban booming Gucci Mane, so I assumed it was a black dude [driving],” Henry recalls to Et over the phone from his Harlem apartment on one of the first summer days in New York City. “When I pulled up, I saw four white boys going crazy to the music and when they saw me, they turned it down. And I said, ‘Hey man, you can turn that up because I’m listening to this.’ I was listening to Kylie Minogue. They were completely thrown off. People meet me on the red carpet and think I’ll be one way and I’m like, ‘That’s your...
“One day in Atlanta, I was driving my Hyundai Sonata and I saw a Suburban booming Gucci Mane, so I assumed it was a black dude [driving],” Henry recalls to Et over the phone from his Harlem apartment on one of the first summer days in New York City. “When I pulled up, I saw four white boys going crazy to the music and when they saw me, they turned it down. And I said, ‘Hey man, you can turn that up because I’m listening to this.’ I was listening to Kylie Minogue. They were completely thrown off. People meet me on the red carpet and think I’ll be one way and I’m like, ‘That’s your...
- 6/14/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
The music we grow up with shapes our tastes in later life, according to a study by Cornell University. We asked Guardian writers to tell us about the songs that take them back to their childhood homes
'My mother would listen to the Carpenters while ironing'
Of the handful of albums my parents owned, it was The Carpenters' Singles 1969-1973 that struck me the most. I remember being particularly fascinated by Rainy Days and Mondays. With the benefit of hindsight, I suspect it was because it was the first piece of music I had ever heard that appeared to perfectly suit the circumstances in which I heard it. My mother would listen to the Carpenters in the afternoon, while doing the ironing in the front room, and I remember thinking that was what the woman in the song was probably doing too. In my head she was singing it...
'My mother would listen to the Carpenters while ironing'
Of the handful of albums my parents owned, it was The Carpenters' Singles 1969-1973 that struck me the most. I remember being particularly fascinated by Rainy Days and Mondays. With the benefit of hindsight, I suspect it was because it was the first piece of music I had ever heard that appeared to perfectly suit the circumstances in which I heard it. My mother would listen to the Carpenters in the afternoon, while doing the ironing in the front room, and I remember thinking that was what the woman in the song was probably doing too. In my head she was singing it...
- 9/10/2013
- by Dorian Lynskey, Tim Jonze, Bim Adewunmi, Rebecca Nicholson, Alexis Petridis, Michael Hann, Paula Cocozza, John Crace, Lucy Mangan, Tim Dowling, Nosheen Iqbal
- The Guardian - Film News
In light of all the recent conversations about black representation in the comic book space, as well as in genre cinema, and also filmed biopics on black public figures, past and present, I thought I'd toss a few names into the pool, for any filmmakers, producers, studios, etc, searching for real-life stories that could potentially make interesting onscreen studies (satisfying all 3 - whether their entire lives, or specific periods of their lives - a day, month, year, etc. A snippet from a recent CNN profile: Cheryl Lynn Eaton is a comics and graphic novel fan who fell in love with the medium in childhood, courtesy of Archie and the X-Men. She knows plenty about comic books...
- 3/11/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Here is last week's caption pic winner. This week's caption pic is at the bottom of the page.
Thanks to everyone for participating! The winner is ...
""No, Miss Aguilera...I expect you to die.""
Thanks to David for this week's winning caption!
Weekend Birthdays! (Note: Birthday shoutouts are for out entertainers, allies, or for any celeb that seems to have a following on Ae). Jon Hamm (above) is 41, out and faboo Warehouse 13 exec. producer Jack Kenny is 54, Emmanuel Lewis is 41, Mitchell Lichtenstein is 56, Jasmine Guy is 50, Neneh Cherry is 48, Edie Brickell is 46, Robin Thicke is 35, Carrie Underwood is 29, Johnny Knoxville is 41, Christopher Rice is 34, Cheryl Lynn is 55, Nina Hagen is 57, and Martin Fry is 54. Okay, what are your top five ABC songs? Here are my picks: 5."How To Be A Millionaire." 4. "When Smokey Sings", 3. "Look Of Love" 2. "Poison Arrow," 1. "Be Near Me" As expected, John Carter is shaping up to bomb spectacularly.
Thanks to everyone for participating! The winner is ...
""No, Miss Aguilera...I expect you to die.""
Thanks to David for this week's winning caption!
Weekend Birthdays! (Note: Birthday shoutouts are for out entertainers, allies, or for any celeb that seems to have a following on Ae). Jon Hamm (above) is 41, out and faboo Warehouse 13 exec. producer Jack Kenny is 54, Emmanuel Lewis is 41, Mitchell Lichtenstein is 56, Jasmine Guy is 50, Neneh Cherry is 48, Edie Brickell is 46, Robin Thicke is 35, Carrie Underwood is 29, Johnny Knoxville is 41, Christopher Rice is 34, Cheryl Lynn is 55, Nina Hagen is 57, and Martin Fry is 54. Okay, what are your top five ABC songs? Here are my picks: 5."How To Be A Millionaire." 4. "When Smokey Sings", 3. "Look Of Love" 2. "Poison Arrow," 1. "Be Near Me" As expected, John Carter is shaping up to bomb spectacularly.
- 3/9/2012
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Singer Dannii Minogue has been roped in to front Marks and Spencer's women's wear campaign.The X Factor judge, 38, who's pregnant with her first child, will feature alongside Ana Beatriz Barros, the Brazilian supermodel, singer V.V. Brown, Lisa Snowdon, the 'Strictly Come Dancing' star and model Twiggy to promote the M&S spring campaign for womenswear and lingerie.The TV advertisements will launch on March 24 and will be accompanied by the soundtrack of 'To Be Real', by Cheryl Lynn, reports telegraph.co.uk.Marks & Spencer also said it would be running a new food television advertising campaign which replaces the famous ''This is not just ...'' slogan with the phrase ''Just because''.
- 3/23/2010
- Filmicafe
It's catching and it feels great - boogie fever! And bringing it to the Orange County Performing Arts Center's Segerstrom Hall audience on Saturday, December 5 at 7:30 p.m. will be the Disco Groove All-Stars, including the legendary Thelma Houston, Cheryl Lynn, Tavares, Maxine Nightingale and A Taste of Honey featuring Janice-Marie, all sharing one band for a seamless evening of top disco hits.
- 10/6/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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