Mary J. Blige, John Legend, Janelle Monáe, Leslie Odom Jr., Justin Timberlake Discuss Inspiration During A Pandemic During ‘THR’ Songwriter’s Roundtable

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The Hollywood Reporter‘s annual roundtable is here and it’s featuring some of the best songwriters of the year. Mary J. Blige, John Legend, Janelle Monáe, Leslie Odom Jr., and Justin Timberlake virtually united and discussed the songs they composed for films and how they found inspiration through a pandemic.

With a crazy 2020, Blige, who wrote “See What You’ve Done” for the doc “Belly Of The Beast”, admits the year taught her “just how to be patient.” “And 2021 is teaching me the same thing.

There’s nothing you can do about COVID, about quarantining, the whole thing. So it’s just really put me in a place where I appreciate every single thing that I have.