While Linda Perry may be the official songwriter for "Hands of Love" she recently said that "I don't take ownership," for the entire song sung by Miley Cyrus that was featured in the Freeheld movie, currently playing in theatres across the country. Miley Cyrus, a huge LGBTQ advocate, was reportedly thrilled to be involved with the project.
"I don't take ownership in something that beautiful, because it comes from somewhere else," the former 4 Non Blondes member said to Billboard recently. The song reportedly popped into Perry's head just after she attended the screening of the independent film, "All of a sudden," she said, "I hear lyrics, melody, the chords - it's all just kind of coming." Perry also supposedly wrote the song in her car, scribbling on her dashboard.
Also according to Billboard, producers were apparently dumbfounded by Perry's quick ultra-quick turnaround on the song, which took her about 45 minutes in a car to write. When she played it for them on the piano, it was already a complete piece of music.
"I think they thought I was on drugs or something," she told Billboard. "They were like, 'There's no way you're going to tell us you wrote a song in 45 minutes on the way from the movie to here.'"
Shortly before its release, Idolator reported on the movie, which stars Julianne Moore and Ellen Page as same-sex couple Laurel Hester and Stacie Andree. Hester was a police officer who had been in a domestic partnership with Andree for six years when she was diagnosed with lung cancer and demanded that her partner be able to receive her pension benefits. They fought against officials in Ocean County, New Jersey, who ignored their requests for upwards of a year, and finally won.
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