The Many Confessions of Linda Perry

Rolling Stone Music Now

Rolling Stone | Cumulus Podcast Network

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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With a documentary out about her life, singer/songwriter/producer Linda Perry spills about everything from the real story behind Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful" to her failed collaboration with Courtney Love — and much more, in an in-depth interview with host Brian Hiatt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.7	I'm Brian Hyatt this This is Rolling Stone Music Now. Last week I saw what has got to be the most raw and revealing music documentary of the year.
0:39.5	Linda Perry, Let It Die Here. Directed by Don Hardy, who recently did that documentary about Sean Penn, Citizen Penn.
0:46.5	The subject to the documentary is of course Linda Perry, the songwriter, producer, and singer who started
0:51.4	her career with Four Non Blonds. You know them from the hit
0:54.3	What's Up?
0:56.5	And I step outside and I take a difference and I can't feel high and I scream. And then started writing and producing for other artists.
1:05.0	Her big early successes were with Pink, get this party started.
1:10.0	I'm coming up so you better get this body started.
1:17.1	And then with Christina Aguilera
1:18.8	with the extraordinary song Beautiful.
1:21.4	I am Beautiful. No matter what they say.
1:28.0	In the movie, Linda inches towards writing songs for herself again,
1:32.0	even as we see her rocky relationship with her mother
1:34.9	who then gets ill and dies during the making of the movie. As well as Linda's physical and emotional
1:39.9	struggles there's an extraordinary scene where she has a sort of meltdown on
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