"That distinction was unmistakable at a recent screening of Forest Whitaker's 1995 romantic dramedy "Waiting to Exhale" as part of a Cult Classics Cinema event at Inglewood's Miracle Theater. As the film played, roughly 80 attendees swayed their bodies and sang along to songs from the Grammy-winning soundtrack, including "Sittin' Up in my Room" by Brandy, Mary J. Blige's "Not Gon' Cry," and Toni Braxton's "Let It Flow.""
"When Whitney Houston's title track, "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)," played during a scene in which her character, Savannah, reconnects with a man with whom she's been having an on-and-off again affair, the audience crooned the lyrics in unison like a choir: " Everyone falls in love sometime / Sometimes it's wrong, and sometimes it's right. " "It's really a time capsule of '90s R&B,""
Cult Classics Cinema pairs film screenings with listening parties that foreground Black cinema and its music. At a Miracle Theater screening of the 1995 film Waiting to Exhale, roughly 80 attendees swayed and sang along to the Grammy-winning soundtrack, joining in on songs by Brandy, Mary J. Blige and Toni Braxton. Whitney Houston's "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" prompted communal crooning of its lyrics. Attendee Deonna Tillman described the soundtrack as a time capsule of '90s R&B that features icons such as Patti LaBelle and Aretha Franklin. Founder Diamora Hunt (DJ Rosegawd) curates monthly events and plays soundtracks from start to finish.
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