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Throughout She’s Gotta Have It, the audience learns how to watch the series through each song and its accompanying scene. According to film theorist Michael Chion, through this “forced marriage,” or joining of a film clip with a musical piece, the audience is given opportunities to interpret meanings differently. Chion argues that film and audio hold equal weight in film’s multisensory aesthetic nature, and I will be exploring how the musical choices in She’s Gotta Have It ar