Linda Perry Let Her ‘Let It Die Here’ Director Document “One Long Meltdown” That Resulted In A New Song, And A Movie – Sound & Screen Film

In her Tribeca Festival documentary Linda Perry: Let It Die Here, Linda Perry fans were treated to a rare POV of the 4 Non Blondes frontwoman’s life and musical process.

At Deadline’s Sound & Screen Film, the five-time Grammy nominee performed “What Lies with You” from her fourth solo album Let It Die Here, and recounted writing the song after going through “one long meltdown” following her mother’s death, as well as letting director Don Hardy Jr. shoot a four-hour jam session where “the song came to life in the film” after she wrote it the night before.

“Don and I worked on a film called Citizen Penn for Sean Penn, and then we just kind of became friends, and he asked me, ‘You know, you’re super interesting. Can I just come in your studio and film your process?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah!’ And then, I thought I would just get some good Instagram content, because I’m terrible at it. I mean, swear to f*cking god,” Perry told the Sound & Screen audience.

“And then, as it always happens when a camera shows up, things start happening,” she added. “And I was struggling a lot, I was just having such a hard time figuring out how to write a song for myself.”

Perry continued, “And then Don came and said, ‘Hey, you know, the footage I’ve been shooting, I think there’s a documentary here. I’m seeing it kind of clear.’ And I was just like, ‘I don’t wanna hear about it. Don’t tell me about it. I don’t wanna f*cking know about it.’ And then, he’s like, ‘But you understand it would be about you?’ And I’m like, ‘I get it. If I said it, I said it. If I did it, i did it. But don’t bring it up to me.’ And that’s kind of how it happened.”

In Linda Perry: Let It Die Here, now available to stream on Hulu and Disney+, the artist provides an intimate look at her life, career and personal struggles.