It’s the story of the singers you’ve heard a million times but never known by name. The women behind the hooks, the choruses, the shouts that defined an era. A documentary about the distance between centre stage and the shadows.

Director Morgan Neville takes what could have been a VH1 nostalgia piece and instead creates an elegy and a celebration. Mixing archival footage with soaring live performances, it becomes a hymn to voices we took for granted.

The film doesn’t try to crown a single heroine, instead weaving multiple lives together, showing how the industry both used and erased them. In doing so, it gives us a different narrative about success: that brilliance doesn’t always mean fame.

This film hands the microphone back. Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer - they’re not background, they’re the foreground. Their voices aren’t “supporting” anymore; they are the story. Telling their stories is an act of redress.

The film corrected history and bagged an Oscar. Audiences went back to their record collections with new ears. It gave credit where it was long overdue, and sparked a conversation about recognition, race, and women in the industry.

Check out our film, Out Laws, inspired by this redress of a historical injustice through the inspiring stories of brave individuals.

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