Mary J. Blige Wrote The Help Soundtrack In Screening

Mary J. Blige wrote most of The Help's theme tune during an early screening of the new movie.
 
Film bosses invited the singer to create a song for the big screen adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's bestselling novel about black maids in Mississippi, and asked her to attend a preview showing.
 
Blige was so enthralled by the story she worked out her track The Living Proof before leaving the theatre.
 
She tells Postmedia News, "I saw the movie. I cried so hard and I laughed so hard. There was all sorts of stuff I was going through, and then I got encouraged and inspired by the end of the movie.

"And while I was sitting watching the film, each emotion that I had, I would type down on my BlackBerry.
 
"Then I requested to see it again, and the same thing happened again. I just kept typing down more, and, by the time I got to the studio, the song was almost written."
 
Blige recently revealed she felt a personal connection to the film as her aunt worked as a maid for a wealthy white family when the singer was a child.