Billie Holiday

Intro Billie holiday has just finished singing “straight fruit” then the government immediately came on stage and grabbed her away and handcuffed her for singing a song deeply rooted in the black struggle of oppression and systemic racism and during the Jim Crow era the white supremacist want to shut her up as “she’s causing a stir” she continues her relationship with jimmy her long time lover and partner in crime as they have a roller coaster relationship of addictions,, intimacy, and drink. She is scarred from seeing her father lynched as a child in the early 1900s and wanted to sing a song about it called strange fruit, Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies in the Southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees, Pastoral scene of the gallant south The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh Then the sudden smell of flesh. And she is in Chicago county jail waiting for her music producer manager to bail her out of jail so she can go point up. She was a black activist through her music and rebellion of speaking about the black American struggles throughout the centuries of unjustly being gone and not getting any justice and her man stays by her side until she meets another, a fan whose utterly in love with her Brandon a US Army veteran who has just returned from serving in ww2 and is infatuated with Billie holiday first sight abd their toxic rollercoaster triangle love affair leaves her emotionless and enjoying her freedom of both men as she continues the fight to sing her story.