Aretha Franklin’s ‘Faith’-Based Song Gets a New Black Lives Matter-Themed Music Video
track connects the civil rights movement she supported in the 1960s with the current Black Lives Matter protests that the Queen of Soul did not quite live to see.
The video was released Friday night to dovetail with Juneteenth, as was the track itself, which came out earlier in the day. The 14-year-old song, “Never Gonna Break My Faith,” was originally released as a duet with Mary J. Blige, but the new version lets Franklin carry the vocal load for the entirety of the modern spiritual.
The music video juxtaposes news footage from the Selma march and other civil rights activism at the height of the turbulent 1960s with this year’s Black Lives Matter protests — interspersed with shots of Franklin performing gospel music in the recent “Amazing Grace” film.and originally appeared on the soundtrack of the 2006 film “Bobby,” about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. It won the Grammy for best gospel performance in 2008, her 18th and final win.
Said co-writer Adams, “When I wrote this song, I was channeling Aretha, never thinking that she’d ever actually sing the song. The thought was to write a hymn, something that would try and articulate the feeling of faith, and that even though you might have lost something, there would always be an inner light to guide you. When the song was demo-ed, I told the producers that Aretha would be the one to sing this, and sing it she did.
Davis, obviously, opted not to hold the recording for the forthcoming Franklin biopic, which stars Jennifer Hudson, but to go ahead and release it for Juneteenth.
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