After debuting the song on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, H.E.R. finally releases “Fight For You.” The ’60s inspired record produced by D’Mile is from the Judas and The Black Messiah motion picture soundtrack. On the record. H.E.R. speaks on the freedom and justice of black people by any means necessary. It’s powerful, upflifing and soulful all in one.
Both Judas and The Black Messiah and the soundtrack to the upcoming film will be released next week on February 12.
This is what she said about the song in an interview with Zane Lowe:
“It was pretty fast. After we watched the movie in the studio together, then we just started to talk. And that’s honestly why I love working with D’Mile and Tiara [Thomas] because I can talk to them.
We have these conversations and there’s a comfortability. And I think the biggest thing was listening to some of our favorite, some of my favorites; Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, and people like that, Sly and the Family Stone. I was like, ‘I really want to capture the right percussion sounds and get the bass line.’ We started with the bass line. I picked up the bass and I was fiddling a little bit. And then I had walked away. D’Mile came, picked up the bass, and then we landed on something. And it was really about the message, you know.”
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