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The holiday season is here and long cold days of winter are approaching. But what to do when, finally, we can stay at home on the sofa? We have the solution! Grab your popcorn and make yourself comfortable, here are our favorite music documentaries for your chilly winter days!
Cold Winter Day Music Documentary Watching List:
Origins of Hip-Hop
2022 was the year for A&E Network‘s release of the music documentary series Origins of Hip-Hop.
Origins of Hip-Hop is an eight-hour series that explores the careers and private lives of eight hip-hop rappers. Busta Rhymes, Eve, Fat Joe, Grandmaster Flash, Ice-T, Ja Rule, Lil Jon and Uncle Luke are the protagonists of the series, narrated by Nas. From the origins to the peak of each artist’s career, the series discusses the journeys that led the rappers to success. Furthermore, the series is very personal, with intimate confessions. It also includes moments with family members, friends and colleagues.
Olivia Rodrigo’s Driving Home 2 U
Olivia Rodrigo’s Drive Home 2 U is the road documentary about her Sour tour. In detail, the artist brings us in her tour and shows the true life of an artist on the road. She also discusses her songs and her songwriting process. The documentary is an interesting watch for all those who are into the singer and her young stardom.
Women Who Rock
Finally, we picked for you one of the most compelling and powerful music documentaries of recent years. Women Who Rock is a series of four episodes. It is segmented into decades, presenting and analyzing the main women in rock of the decades. Starting from the ’60s, passing through the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, the series arrives at the 2000s, showing what once was not obvious for everyone: women can rock too.
In the series, multiple artists appear. Some include: Kate Pierson of The B-52s, Nancy Wilson of Heart, Mavis Staples, Aimee Mann, Tori Amos, Tina Weymouth of the Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, Chaka Khan, Pat Benatar, Sheila E., Macy Gray and Rickie Lee Jones.
