Have you all watched #summerofsoul yet? What were the most impactful moments for you? For me seeing Mahalia hand the torch to young @mavisstaples just undid me. And Queen Nina Simone...We'll never be able to award this doc enough - thank you @questlove #thesoundoffreedom ✊🏾🖤
@outsidechild13 @mavisstaples @questlove Watching Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. watch themselves was pretty resonant, Hard to pick just one.
@outsidechild13 @dansgoodside @mavisstaples @questlove I just wish Sly and the Family Stone had finished their incendiary take of Higher a little more strongly. Then I could have died a happy man.
@outsidechild13 @mavisstaples @questlove We saw it here in #ldnont @HylandCinema - Nina Simone was spectacular but I found Sly and the Family Stone to be so hopeful and joyous. I just loved their performance.
@outsidechild13 @mavisstaples @questlove There were so many… Pops Staples talmbout he bought his first guitar with the $5 dollars he saved from sharecropping… and me being shook at the realization of how not long ago that was at all… and to see vintage footage of Black joy… Summer of Soul indeed!
@outsidechild13 @mavisstaples @questlove I had tears in my ears when Stevie started up.... and again during the whole gospel / Mahalia section, and watching Fifth Dimension watch themselves.... and of course blown away by the beauty, poise and power of Nina
@outsidechild13 @mavisstaples @questlove But the most impactful for me was the whole visual and how EVERY single person in that Harlem crowd looked absolutely amazing, the clothes, the style, the colours and the emotions in the faces .... incredible
@outsidechild13 @mavisstaples @questlove Honestly, the whole movie was impactful. I loved it from start to finish.
@outsidechild13 @mavisstaples @questlove Totally agree on the passing of the torch scene. It hit me hard. It was sad and beautiful.
@outsidechild13 @mavisstaples @questlove For me, it was Nina. The force with which she played the keys, that unmistakable delivery, her command of the stage, that powerful reading ... Are you really, really, really, really ready? Floored me.