For Colored Girls: Music From and Inspired by the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

For Colored Girls: Music From and Inspired by the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by various artists
Released	November 2, 2010
Recorded	2010 (All tracks except Nina Simone's performance) 1966 (Nina Simone's sampled performance on "Four Women")
Length	50:10
Label	Atlantic

For Colored Girls: Music From and Inspired by the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is a soundtrack album for the feature film For Colored Girls (2010), released on November 2, 2010.^[1]

Critical reception

Andy Kellman with Allmusic gave the soundtrack a four star rating, commenting "Most of the artists -- an impressive mix of distinct personalities, much like the film’s cast -- contribute strong material that benefits from the context; each selection sounds like it belongs on the soundtrack for this particular film".^[2] Nitsuh Abebe with New York Magazine called the release "solemn and portentous", saying "It’s being asked to perform an absurd, impossible task — somehow embracing as much as possible of the entire modern experience of black American women — so it stretches in a few directions".^[3]

Track listing

Information is based on the album’s Liner Notes^[4]

Sample Credits

• "All Day Long (Blue Skies)" contains lyrics from "Blue Skies" written by Irving Berlin.
• "Four Women" uses samples from the original recording of "Four Women" performed by Nina Simone, used courtesy of The Verve Music Group.

Personnel

Credits are adapted from Allmusic^[2] and the album’s Liner Notes^[4]

Performance

Production

References

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