Spike Lee and “Good Hair” When I was watching Good Hair, I was disappointed that the filmmakers didn’t use this clip from Spike Lee’s 1990 collegiate musical School Daze, with the straight-haired girls facing off against the nappy-haired ones in a dance number. Check out the 1990 hairstyles:
The music is by Lee’s musician father Bill Lee, which explains the big-band sound of this song, as opposed to the other songs in the movie, which were done up in the R&B style that was current at the time.
Tags: Chris Rock, dance, Good Hair, School Daze, Spike Lee
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Ha ha ha.. good one. I enjoyed it.