{"id":1986296,"date":"2025-08-29T09:18:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T09:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1986296"},"modified":"2025-08-29T09:18:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T09:18:45","slug":"john-legend-to-feature-in-new-mgm-docuseries-words-music-lakes-media-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/john-legend-to-feature-in-new-mgm-docuseries-words-music-lakes-media-network\/","title":{"rendered":"John Legend to feature in new MGM+ docuseries \u2018Words + Music\u2019 \u2013 Lakes Media Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>John Legend performs at The O2 Arena on June 01, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Joseph Okpako\/WireImage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s like\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">MTV Unplugged\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">crossed with\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">VH1 Storytellers<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u2014 with some new technology added in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Words + Music,\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">a new TV series based on the Audible audio series of the same name, is coming to MGM+ Nov. 30 and\u00a0<strong>John Legend<\/strong>\u00a0is among the featured artists.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Like\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Unplugged\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">and\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Storytellers<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, each episode will feature artists sharing the stories behind their most iconic songs, followed by performances of those songs, either solo or with a band. There will also be an immersive video experience, courtesy of a stage that includes a 79-by-80-foot LED screen and 105 motion capture cameras, according to a press release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As the artists tell their stories, they\u2019ll be surrounded by \u201cdynamic visual narratives\u201d: the environment around them will \u201ctransform to reflect each anecdote and song,\u201d the release says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The show is being produced by Gunpowder and Sky, the studio run by\u00a0<strong>Van Toffler<\/strong>, the former president of MTV Networks. Toffler says, \u201cThe result is something as intimate as a backstage confession and as cinematic as a feature film. These aren\u2019t just stories about iconic songs \u2013 they\u2019re portraits of how those songs, and the artists behind them came to be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Other artists featured in the episodes are\u00a0<strong>Elvis Costello<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Sheryl Crow\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Alanis Morissette<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.lakesmedianetwork.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Legend performs at The O2 Arena on June 01, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Joseph Okpako\/WireImage) It\u2019s like\u00a0MTV Unplugged\u00a0crossed with\u00a0VH1 Storytellers\u2014 with some new technology added in. Words + Music,\u00a0a new TV series based on the Audible audio series of the same name, is coming to MGM+ Nov. 30 and\u00a0John Legend\u00a0is among the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1986297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/John-Legend-to-feature-in-new-MGM-docuseries-\u2018Words.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1986297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}