After I’m endlessly scouting by the greatest streaming companies for one thing to observe, there’s one factor I can all the time depend on for a consolation watch: an excellent music film. With the new film BLACKPINK World Tour [Born Pink] now out in cinemas, I really feel it is solely acceptable for me to interrupt down my 5 favourite music motion pictures (each live performance movies and documentaries) on streaming – all of which occur to have scored over 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, as a result of my style is nothing wanting wonderful.
The listing contains all the highest tier pop ladies, reminiscent of Beyoncé and naturally Taylor Swift. Every of those music motion pictures mix parts of live performance efficiency with documentary footage that brings the inventive strategy of the artist to the forefront, supplying you with an perception to what it takes to place collectively an album or heart-stopping efficiency.
Music motion pictures are one thing I can all the time depend on platforms like Netflix, Disney Plus, and Max for, whether or not I wish to watch one thing that’ll educate me on iconic occasions in music’s historical past or if I simply wish to relive a dwell gig over and over. They are saying that music works the world go round, and I could not agree extra.
Netflix
Homecoming: A Movie by Beyoncé (2019)
RT Rating: 98%
Size: 137 minutes
Director: Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
When Beyoncé grew to become the primary Black lady to headline Coachella in 2018, nobody might’ve seen the size of her efficiency coming to not point out the cultural influence that adopted which remains to be spoken about to today. Along with its accompanying dwell album, Homecoming is a live performance film and documentary hybrid like no different, and a private favourite of mine when contemplating one of many greatest Netflix motion pictures. It is a full showcase of Beyoncé’s Coachella efficiency, which put HBCU (Traditionally Black Faculties and Universities) tradition on the forefront, weaving in behind-the-scenes documentation of how her creativity, emotion, and willpower fuelled an extremely bold challenge.
Disney Plus
Folklore: The Lengthy Pond Studio Periods (2020)
RT Rating: 100%
Size: 106 minutes
Director: Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift’s pandemic album and AOTY Grammy-winner Folklore is – in my view – her most nuanced work to this point, and her Lengthy Pond Studio Periods film deep dives into her inventive course of as a songwriter throughout this period. With music producers Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner, the three reunite after recording the album hundreds of miles aside as a result of Covid-19 to play all 17 songs dwell in a comfortable and secluded cabin-style studio in upstate New York. Swift sits down to speak about every observe in depth previous to performing them, elaborating on the characters and stream of consciousness she creates as an extension of her inside relationships with love and fame.
Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles (2021)
RT Rating: 100%
Size: 85 minutes
Director: Robert Rodriguez
For as younger as she is, Billie Eilish has proved herself to be a pop music auteur in her personal proper bringing the as soon as under-looked style of bed room pop into the mainstream. In her quick film, she makes her Disney Plus debut with a present on the Hollywood Bowl following the discharge of her sophomore album Happier Than Ever (2021), enjoying every tune so as. It is a close-up and intimate efficiency of an album that reverts to downtempo and electropop sounds, a contrasting distinction to her debut. We do not embody music motion pictures in our picks of the greatest Disney Plus motion pictures however we’d need to rethink now.
Summer time of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Might Not Be Televised) (2021)
RT Rating: 99%
Size: 117 minutes
Director: Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson
Thompson’s debut as a filmmaker takes us all of the again to the summer time of ’69, when all eyes had been on the primary Woodstock competition – and never the Harlem Cultural Pageant. Summer time of Soul is a music documentary and historical past lesson on how soul and gospel-centric music occasion the Harlem Cultural Pageant was filmed, however by no means launched to the general public till now. With uncommon live performance performances from Nina Simone, Stevie Surprise, Gladys Knight, and Ray Baretto, Summer time of Soul highlights how music has all the time been an necessary treatment for coping with occasions of hassle and social injustice.
Max
Gaga Chromatica Ball (2024)
RT Rating: 100%
Size: 118 minutes
Director: Woman Gaga
Seeing the Chromatica Ball dwell in London in 2022 was my summer time spotlight, and now I get to rejoice in all of these feelings over once more. In entrance of a sold-out crowd of 52,000 folks at Dodger Stadium in L.A., Gaga returns to the stage for her Chromatica Ball tour, supporting her dance-pop file Chromatica (2020). Performing her most well-known singles and deeper cuts from her discography, Gaga combines choreography, putting visuals, elaborate costume adjustments, and insane vocals to create one encapsulating spectacle that might give a whole lot of the greatest Max motion pictures a run for his or her cash – together with just a little tease of what is subsequent to come back.
