11/6/2023 0 Comments Hidden figures![]() On September 10, 2016, Pharrell Williams performed all the songs at a promotional concert held at the Toronto International Film Festival, where the film's special screening was held. Williams stated to Deadline saying "We wanted to make sure there was a different offering, because when you listen to most scores, the chord progressions and the melodic direction usually has a Euro or Anglo basis to it". Williams' songs were also used to draw in the film's score. Blige, Alicia Keys, Lalah Hathaway and Janelle Monáe, apart from Williams recording some of the solo tracks. The album featured prominent artists such as Mary J. Gospel player Kim Burrell was hired to sing the track, after being insisted by singer-songwriter Kirk Franklin as replicate the "jazz inflections" in the track. Williams stated it as "one of the uplifting tracks in the album", as it served as a "soaring motivational track", but also highlighted "the early '60s with what women are going through to today". But their math, and their ambition, superseded it." Īnother track "I See A Victory" consisted of gospel flavor music and also replicated the "classic Southern soul, zydeco sound". So they were pulled down in a different way. Williams said "What must have gone through her mind? They lived in a gender-biased, racially biased matrix where the gravity was much heavier on a woman than it was on a man. Henson) having to dash across the Langley Research Center campus to the only bathroom that a black woman could use. The song was inspired by the scenes of Katherine Johnson ( Taraji P. The first track "Runnin'" was composed on time to shoot for the scenes. Then when this project popped up it was like, 'Oh, that's what I was supposed to be doing." Williams in a Facebook interaction with fans, said "I attempted to put something behind the music, and nothing ever really worked out. The tracks were written even before the start of the production, since late-2014. All of the songs were inspired from music in the 1960s since the film and its events take place during that period. Pharrell Williams acted as the co-producer of the film's soundtrack, and also wrote for most of the songs for the film. The album spawned five singles: "I See a Victory", "Runnin'", " Surrender", " Crave" and "Able". The album was released through William's i am OTHER label, Columbia Records and Sony Classical Records on December 21, 2016. The album mostly consisted of gospel music, and featured involvement of various artists, mostly female vocalists performing the tracks, while Williams also featured as the primary artist and also accompanied the female artists in few tracks. The songs were written and produced by Pharrell Williams who scored much of the songs in late-2014. Hidden Figures: The Album is the soundtrack album consisting of 10 original songs, that accompanies the 2016 film Hidden Figures.
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