B Movies Blog

Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping music biopics into the ol’ VCR. 

Now, friends, I’m not the authority on music biopics. 

I tend to watch more content about music like Almost Famous and Daisy Jones & the Six than I do content about musicians in particular.

While I definitely need to expand my music biopic horizons, a question was asked in a Disgraceland After Party episode about favorite music biopics, and it got my gears turning. 

I know that this list is measly, but I wanted to write about this topic, damn it. 

In no particular order (and excluding some big ones because I haven’t seen them and told y’all I don’t write about things I haven’t seen), here are my favorite music biopics: 

• Walk the Line 
• Purple Rain 
• Elvis & Me 
• Rocketman 
• 8 Mile 
• Selena 
• Coal Miner’s Daughter 

However, I want to give an honorable mention to tick, tick…BOOM! I know Jonathan Larson was a playwright, but I think the music he wrote was so innovative and so, for lack of a better word, unique that it’s worth the mention. Plus, Andrew Garfield is brilliant in it. 

I know this list may be a bit measly, but I’m working on it. 

I hope this list didn’t strike a chord for all of you 🥴