Linda Perry Performs "What Lies with You" and Talks Grief and the Documentary Behind It

Linda Perry, the frontwoman of 4 Non Blondes, performed "What Lies with You" at Deadline's Sound & Screen Film event, and the trade publication has posted her conversation as video. The song is from her fourth solo album, also called Let It Die Here.

Perry told Deadline that she wrote the song after what she described as "one long meltdown" following her mother's death. She wrote it the night before a four-hour jam session, and that session was filmed by director Don Hardy Jr. The song comes to life on screen during that session.

The film is Linda Perry: Let It Die Here, a documentary about her life, career and personal struggles. Hardy first asked to film Perry's work in the studio. That footage grew into the feature. The two had worked together before, on Citizen Penn, a film made for Sean Penn.

The documentary has a festival history. It was a United States world premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Festival in New York, according to Deadline's 2024 lineup coverage. Deadline listed the film in its 2026 Sound & Screen Film schedule, with Perry credited as songwriter.

Viewers can now watch it at home. Deadline reports that the film streams on Hulu and Disney+. Tribeca's festival is a marketplace as well as a showcase, and films shown there often go on to find distributors and streaming homes, sometimes a year or more after their first screening.

Perry is a five-time Grammy nominee. Her songwriting and production credits include work for Pink, Christina Aguilera and Dolly Parton, according to the film's distributor, KTF Films.

For anyone who knows Perry from her records, the film follows the path from a private loss to a finished song. Deadline's video shows that path in her own words, in front of an audience.