The United States vs. Billie Holiday who applauded her singing performance.The singer and actress told NME in a new interview that ‘Strange Fruit’, the protest song that her character, jazz legend Billie Holiday, was targeted for by the US government in the 1940s, is “ugly” and thus should not be romanticised as something “beautiful”.Day said that after she delivered a live rendition for a concert scene in the film, she had various crew clap applaud and remark on her “beautiful performance”, which she found grating.“I didn’t want people to enjoy the song when I was singing it on set,” Day explained to NME.
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