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Film aims to change the narrative around singer Billie Holiday's life

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Authenticity of sound’ in these films is the focus by most other media.(Today is ‘Hulu Day’; must promote their film).

Instead, go watch Viola Davis’s “*Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” “*On NetFlix!”. The music is by the master, Branford Marsalis and the film features the final performance by ‘late’ Chadwick Boseman.

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I don’t know about most people’s perception of Lady Day but mine is of a brilliant jazz singer who was addicted to heroin and was ‘political’ in that she protested against the killing of black people (what a concept; to be against murder).

If you listen to her catalog from beginning to end, it is a very sad progression as her voice gets more gravelly, her pronunciation more slurred as she succumbs to her addiction. Her rendition of Strange Fruit is equally heartbreaking.

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I share expat's concerns about this. "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" makes her sound like Malcolm X.

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"Change the narrative" is doublespeak meaning Change history.

Leftists will now turn any figure from the past into a reimagined SJW.

Its more palatable for them.

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