It ain't fair

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It ain't fair
The Roots , Bilal
publication July 2017
length 6:45
Genre (s) Hip-hop , soul , Motown
Label Motown Records
album Detroit Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

It Is not Fair (Engl. For "It's not fair") is one of The Roots , together with Bilal for the film drama Detroit by Kathryn Bigelow song recorded, which was published in July 2017 and also on the Detroit Original Motion Picture Soundtrack included is.

production

It Is not Fair was the singer Bilal (picture) together with The Roots recorded

The song It Ain't Fair was written by the American hip-hop band The Roots for the drama Detroit by Kathryn Bigelow and recorded together with the American soul singer and songwriter Bilal . The song is a true homage to the Motown sound with an orchestral pop mix of horns, strings, guitar and drums and is opened by Bilal with a sad a cappella and ends with feeling. Questlove, the drums of The Roots, told the music magazine Rolling Stone : "This song is like the slow-burning fire in all of our souls." The film, Questlove continues, clearly shows that life in 1967 in comparison was not much different in 2017 or 1897. Bigelow's film tells of the race riots in Detroit, which were triggered there on July 23, 1967 by a police raid on an unlicensed bar, a so-called blind pig, with more than 40 fatalities, 1,189 injured and over 7,000 arrests as the second most brutal unrest in the world USA went down in history. Accompanying the 50th anniversary of the summer of the unrest and a few weeks after the film started in US cinemas, The Roots presented the song at the end of October 2017 together with Bilal as part of the Tiny Desk Concerts series of the radio station NPR Music . It is a tradition in the editorial offices of National Public Radio to regularly squeeze music groups in front of a small desk for online performance.

publication

The song It Ain't Fair was released in July 2017 and is included as the seventh song on the soundtrack for the film , which was released for download from Motown Records on July 28, 2017 . On August 7, 2017, The Roots and Bilal presented the song on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show . They performed the song on September 24, 2017 at A Concert for Charlottesville: An Evening of Music and Unity and on October 17, 2017 at The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory.

reception

Erin Vierra from mxdwn.com says that the song impresses right through to the end with powerful lyrics, like the line: "It's bad 'cause a good friend's hard to come by / Justice is never color blind, never gun shy / The one crime, you may never see the sun shine. " Sentences like these provided a brutal glimpse into our past, said Vierra.

Verena Lueken from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung describes It Ain't Fair as a kind of gospel rap and assumes that the piece will be performed at one or the other award ceremony of the season.

Awards

On December 18, 2017, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that the song was in a shortlist of 70 songs from which the nominations for the Best Movie Song category at the 2018 Academy Awards were determined. The following is a selection of nominations and awards for the song as part of well-known film awards.

African-American Film Critics Association Awards 2017

Satellite Awards 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jon Blistein: Hear the Roots' Explosive 'It Ain't Fair' for 'Detroit' Soundtrack: ip-hop outfit crafts fiery Motown homage alongside singer Bilal In: Rolling Stone, July 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ http://juice.de/it-aint-fair-the-roots-erinnern-an-die-rassenunruhen-von-1967-video/
  3. ↑ The Roots present their new song "It Ain't Fair" feat. Bilal Live @ NPR Tiny Desk outside In: rap-n-blues.com, October 30, 2017.
  4. ↑ The Roots perform together with Bilal at the Tiny Desk Concert 'It Ain't Fair' In: whudat.de, November 1st, 2017.
  5. ↑ Tiny Desk: The Roots Feat. Bilal In: National Public Radio, October 30, 2017.
  6. ↑ Eddie Fu: The Roots share smoldering new track 'It Ain't Fair': Stream. The powerful collaboration with singer Bilal is taken from the soundtrack for Kathryn Bigelow's upcoming film, Detroit In: consequenceofsound.net, July 28, 2017.
  7. ↑ 'Detroit' soundtrack details In: filmmusicreporter.com, July 25, 2017.
  8. ^ Brian Cantor: The Roots & Bilal Perform 'It Ain't Fair' On Jimmy Fallon's “Tonight Show” In: headlineplanet.com. Retrieved November 9, 2017.
  9. ↑ Erin Vierra: The Roots Releases Smoldering New Song 'It Ain't Fair' In: mxdwn.com, July 29, 2017.
  10. ↑ Verena Lueken: What happened at the Algiers Motel back then. In: FAZ.net . November 22, 2017. Retrieved October 13, 2018 .
  11. ↑ 70 Original Songs Vie For 2017 Oscar In: oscars.org, December 18, 2017.
  12. ↑ African American Film Critics Association named 'Get Out' the Top Film of 2017 ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / static1.squarespace.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: squarespace.com. Accessed January 7, 2018 (PDF; 545 KB)
  13. ↑ Steve Pond: 'Dunkirk', 'The Shape of Water' Lead Satellite Award Nominations In: thewrap.com, November 29, 2017.