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Alok Teams Up With The Chainsmokers and Mae Stephens for "Jungle"

The official music video for “Jungle” explores a new vision of the human experience through the eyes of outsiders. The clip follows three shapeshifting androids who crashland on earth through a lake and are chased by boats and guards. Fighting for survival with the universal instinct shared with animals in the jungle, they find safety by blending in with a crowd at a music festival and transforming into others around them. Through their various paths, they each experience different human emotions and pleasures. Featuring performances by ALOK, The Chainsmokers, and Mae Stephens and filmed onsite at IleSoniq Music Festival in Montreal, the live action music video delivers a captivating cinematic experience to accompany the all-star musical collaboration.

“Jungle has been in the works with The Chainsmokers for over a year now and I’m glad we finally found the right mixture. The addition of Mae was a perfect fit and the response we got premiering it at Tomorrowland in Belgium told us we were on to something special. I can’t wait for everyone to hear the final product and to perform it all over the world.” - ALOK

Coming off a massive summer tour, his latest chart topping release “Car Keys” with global pop sensation Ava Max, its official remix by dance music legend Tiësto, and his recent birthday celebration performance labeled “The Show of the Century” at the iconic Copacabana Palace Hotel in Rio de Janeiro for a record-breaking crowd, ALOK continues pushing boundaries in the dance music community, paving the way for even more mind-blowing performances and opportunities in the future. The #1 most-listened-to Brazilian artist in the world on Spotify and #1 DJ in Latin America recently traveled to New York to host his second annual Future Is Ancestralclimate change event at the United Nations headquarters with multiple panels, speakers, and a performance of his upcoming album featuring indigenous Amazonian artists on the UN rooftop. In May 2023 Alok was honored with a prestigious award at the Better World Fund Gala during the Cannes Film Festival for his charity work with his Alok Institute in conjunction with the Amazônia Fund Alliance program for the Brazilian Federation of UNESCO.

“We couldn't be more excited to be collaborating with Alok and Mae respectively. We have been friends and following Alok’s work for years and always admired his shows and have been trying to find the right record for over 4 years. We were both picky because we wanted to make a record we could both perform at the biggest shows but also something that lent itself to a fan outside of the festivals. Mae is also just a brilliant up and coming artist and she absolutely nailed the vocal. Hopefully like Alok we will have 1,000,000 ppl at our future shows thanks to this collaboration." - The Chainsmokers

The Chainsmokers have consistently elevated popular music by ceaselessly challenging it. The GRAMMY® Award-winning RIAA Diamond-certified duo—Drew Taggart and Alex Pall—have broken boundaries between pop, indie, electronic, alternative, and rock. Thus far, they have scored three Diamond singles, namely the Billboard Hot 100 #1 “Closer” [feat. Halsey], “Something Just Like This” [with Coldplay], and “Don’t Let Me Down” [feat. Daya]. The latter garnered a GRAMMY® Award for “Best Dance Recording.” Their 2017 full-length debut, Memories…Do Not Open, notably bowed at #1 on the Billboard 200 and paved the way for the gold-certified Sick Boy[2018] and gold-certified World War Joy [2019]. Both albums were followed by 40+ city sold out arena tours. At the same time, Drew and Alex give back at every turn. In the midst of the Global Pandemic, Drew and Alex funded the production and delivery of tens of thousands of PPE N95 masks to hospitals in New York and Las Vegas. The charity Youth Emerging Stronger recognized The Chainsmokers with the “Key of Hope Award” for their commitment to philanthropy and underprivileged children.

“I never imagined I would be working with the Chainsmokers and ALOK this time last year. As a starting artist I never imagined anything like this would happen. But they are so kind and it has been so awesome to be a part of this song and the video! The guys are amazing and performing with them was one of the best moments of my life.” - Mae Stephens

Mae Stephens, an English singer and songwriter from Northamptonshire, England, continues to rise due to her breathtaking vocals and catchy songs. Dubbed TikTok’s Global #1 Song of the Summer for her single, “If We Ever Broke Up,” which has amassed over 200 million streams and has gone viral on TikTok numerous times, Mae Stephens has already proven that she has the talent to make it big in the industry. In addition to a various number of remixes of “If We Ever Broke Up,” Stephens also recently collabed with Megan Trainor on her latest single “Mr Right,” which has also become notable on TikTok and has reached an impressive 5 million streams already. With “Mr Right” and “Jungle” under her belt, Stephens has proven that she can not only make a killer track by herself, but that she also has the ability to attract many famous artists due to her overall talent and potential. Stephens still has a long way to go in her music career, but with this latest collab, Stephens is sure to skyrocket even higher to the top.

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032423 Rolling Stone

Jimin Is Ready to Show the World Who He’s Become

The multi-talented star and BTS member talks about his solo debut album Face — and shares how much his bandmates supported his creative process

Before Jimin was sure he could release a solo debut album, his fellow BTS members believed in him first.

It was last spring, and the group was in Las Vegas, carrying out the last shows on their “Permission to Dance on Stage” stadium tour. In between nights, he opened up to his brother-like band members over drinks and told them about the self-doubt he’d been experiencing during the pandemic. That’s when he received the encouragement he needed from the group, who will celebrate their 10-year anniversary this summer, and felt prepared enough to embark on his own project.

“I was thinking things like, ‘Why am I living like this? What am I doing right now?’” he tells Rolling Stone through an interpreter, speaking on an early spring morning from the HYBE office in Seoul. His bandmates assured him that everyone goes through these growing pains. They suggested that expressing himself through music could offer a way forward.

Now, the 27-year-old artist from Busan, South Korea is preparing his vision as a solo pop star with Face, a captivating six-track album. Across the project, which is full of various sonic moods that veer from spiky and hard-hitting to velvety and sleek, Jimin portrays the conflicting feelings he’s had about himself and his journey as an artist. Though he wasn’t originally a singer when he joined Big Hit Entertainment at age 16, he’s developed one of K-pop’s most unique voices: It’s sweet, with delicately sharp edges, and he contorts his vowels as if they were soft curls of smoke. Through these subtle inflections, he conveys bitter isolation on the melancholic R&B song “Alone,” but then quickly switches to explosive anger on “Set Me Free Pt. 2.” On that boisterous, horn-laden hip-hop track, he proclaims that he’s entering a new era where he “won’t hide anymore even if it hurts,” singing as if he’s gritting his teeth.

The project is a bold evolution from Jimin’s work in BTS, where he’s shown his penchant for making emotional R&B through tracks like 2016’s “Lie” and the sultry Latin-pop-inflected “Filter.” In 2018, he showed he could take on an acoustic singer-songwriter approach with his debut solo single “Promise” — which recently got an official release after living only on SoundCloud for years. For the upcoming Face singles, he’s also been teasing meticulously prepared performances, which have become a signature for the skilled dancer whose fluid yet powerful style is informed by his background in modern dance and martial arts. (To see the full scope of his talent, fans can watch his viral contemporary dance to “I Need U” at the 2019 MMA awards, where he flips and spins effortlessly as if he were wind personified, or his scene-stealing performance in 2020’s “Black Swan.”) He’s come a long way since he was a teenager impersonating the sensual performance style of his role model, Big Bang’s Taeyang; this January, he experienced a full circle moment when he was featured on the K-pop veteran’s long-awaited solo track “Vibe.”

Jimin explores a mesmerizing mix of emotions on the album’s lead single “Like Crazy,” which will come in both English and Korean versions. He found inspiration in the 2011 Drake Doremus-directed drama of the same name. Struck by the film’s depiction of a passionate romance between a British woman and American man whose relationship can never stabilize because of visa issues and their respective careers, he tried to convey these ambiguous feelings through the song’s choreography. He’s a perfectionist to his core: When I tell him that I’m looking forward to these performances, his response is simply, “I’ll work hard.”

This album is called Face. What does the title mean to you? In this album, I look back at myself. I heard that the word “face” has many different meanings. Of course, it has the meaning of the noun, face, but it also means, “to face, to [confront],” as a verb. So in order to stand at this new starting point and begin a new journey, I thought it would be necessary to look back at myself and face myself entirely.

When you looked back at yourself, did you discover something new? I wouldn’t say that I felt something new. But when I look back at myself during the pandemic and the emotions that I felt then, I actually didn’t really realize the feelings I had back then. [I thought] I was fine. I was happy. I was just enjoying things. But looking back, I realized that those weren’t the only feelings [I had]. After realizing that, I just thought that I should overcome [these feelings]. I think I kind of learned how to become a grown-up. I realize that I felt various emotions during the pandemic.

When you look at the lyrics on this album, there are themes of loneliness, wrestling with yourself, and of finding freedom. What kind of thoughts and feelings did you have while writing these lyrics? I’m actually not good at beating around the bush, or indirectly saying things, and that’s the same with my lyrics. I just wrote the emotions as they were, exactly how I felt two years ago, and the emotions that I felt in every situation [at that time]. So if you just listen to the music, you’ll understand the lyrics right away.

How did you want to express yourself musically or production-wise on this project? Since for every song, the emotions are all different, I wanted to express those feelings the way they are through the [production]. In the first part [of the album], there’s anger. The main track [“Like Crazy”], it feels happy, but there’s also loneliness behind it. Also, the choreography for the main track and the pre-release single, “Set Me Free Pt. 2” are totally different.

“Interlude: Set Me Free” is a song by SUGA, from his 2020 mixtape D-2 as Agust D. How is this song and your song “Set Me Free Pt. 2” connected? I think it would be hard to say that they’re actually connected. But when I was working on this song, I just thought that the phrase “set me free” would be the perfect title for it. Then I realized that there’s a song with the same name on Suga’s mixtape already. When I listened to that song, I realized it’s also a song about the struggles of becoming more mature, becoming a grown-up. So I thought it would make sense for my song to become the “part two” to that song. If we do have a chance or opportunity, I think it would be nice for him to do a feature on my song. [Laughs]

The first song, “Face-Off,” starts out with a melody that sounds like carnival music. What is that supposed to represent? It doesn’t actually have a specific meaning or significance. But when I worked on this song, the producers and I started fooling around with different pianos and instruments. When you listen to it, you realize this song is very intense, rebellious, and has a lot of anger. But starting it like that [with the carnival sound] would be a stark contrast to the rest of those vibes. So they said, ‘You know, if you start the song like this, it would be kind of paradoxical or ironic, and it could be pretty fun.”

With “Interlude: Dive,” there are sounds of water and then sounds of you talking on stage. What kind of story is that track telling? Originally, the first track was “Face-Off,” which is really intense and rebellious, and the next track was the main track, “Like Crazy,” which has a feeling of dreamy intoxication. I thought it would be nice to have something in-between that would bridge those two tracks, so that’s how we came up with “Dive.” If you listen to the track, you might hear sounds of someone panting for air, or me running somewhere. I wanted to give this feeling that I was lost and wandering. So I tried a lot of different things [for that song]. I actually recorded myself running around using my phone, and it was a fun process.

For “Like Crazy,” you were inspired by the film Like Crazy. What did you like in particular about this movie, and how did it influence the song? I was actually on YouTube, and I came across this video of a mashup between this song “In Return” by Breakbot and clips of this movie. I was like, “Oh what is this?” and that led me to watching the movie. I thought it would be very romantic and sweet, but it turned out that it’s actually a very realistic and stark depiction of a breakup. So when we were talking about the main track, this movie suddenly came to my mind, and I thought it would fit well with the kind of song [we wanted to make]. So I watched the film again, and I included different points of inspiration [into the song]. There are some interesting excerpts of dialogue at the beginning and at the end [of the track] that express exactly what I wanted to say.

Can you share what the “Like Crazy” choreography and performance is going to be like? I tried to express the feelings of that movie… You know, the somewhat complex, somewhat lonely, somewhat happy emotions. I tried to express all these ambiguous and subtle emotions in a slightly sexy way, but I’m not sure how it’ll end up being received by people. [Laughs]

I know that you have a background in modern dance, as well as different martial arts like taekwondo and kendo. How do you think these different movement forms influence your dance style now? Honestly, when I started to learn choreography, I thought my background in modern dance and different kinds of movement would be a hindrance to me. But when I was establishing my own way of expressing choreography after debuting, I think those things actually became hugely helpful. What I thought would be bad habits ended up having a positive impact. I could see dances with a different perspective than other people, and I could mix in my modern dance style or incorporate powerful acrobatics into the choreography. So I think those foundational forms actually built who I am now.

When you were preparing this album, how did the other members help you? Or how were you influenced by them during the process? Actually, my members were the people who made it possible for me to start preparing this album. This all began at the [Permission to Dance on Stage] concerts in Las Vegas last year, and at the time, I was struggling with the emotions that ended up in [“Like Crazy”]… While we were talking over drinks, I told them, “I don’t know if I’m doing well. I don’t even know what I’m doing.” But the members said that it’s perfectly fine to feel that way, that it’s okay to feel lost sometimes. They suggested, “Why don’t you express these emotions through music?”

So the moment I returned to Korea from the United States, I met up with the producers and started working on music right away. I’m so thankful to my members for inspiring me to start working on this album. I don’t know how people are going to react to the music, but I actually was able to completely resolve and move on from all those feelings of being lost. I’m perfectly okay now, so I’m so very thankful to them.

What was it about the Las Vegas concerts that brought up all these emotions for you? As you know, we couldn’t meet our fans in person during the pandemic. At that time, I didn’t feel like I had enough space or time to be able to reflect on myself. So I [lived] not really knowing what I was doing, or why I was working so hard up to that point and for what. Each day, I had all these different thoughts and emotions. But during the Las Vegas concerts, I had the chance to talk with my members about how they were also surviving during this time. Before, I thought that I was the only one who was feeling and acting weird, and that all my members were still working really hard and still looked really cool, that they were shining on their own. I thought I was the odd one out, so talking to them really helped me get back on my feet.

On a different subject, what was it like working with Taeyang on “Vibe?” It was such a happy memory for me. As you know, he has been my role model since I was little. So the fact that I could meet him, listen to him sing right next to me, be able to closely observe him working on music, dance with him, film the music video, and perform together… All of it made me so happy.

When Taeyang appeared on SUGA’s interview series, Suchwita, he said that you’re someone who works really hard. Hearing this, how do you view yourself? I contacted him a lot during the entire process of recording and practicing “Vibe.” I actually took a lot of time recording my parts on my own, since it’s not a very easy song. I think everytime I made a new recording, I sent it over to him, like, “This is today’s version of the recording, could you listen to it please?” Then the next day, I would send a new recording and say, “I fixed these details, what do you think of today’s version?” After he saw me doing that, I think that maybe that’s why he said that and saw me in a positive way.

Can you describe the way that you practice while preparing to release a new album? There’s something I always say to the producers I work with: “Practice is the answer.” If I have some time after I finish work in the evenings, I practice singing with the producers. I practice dancing. I keep trying to spend as much time practicing as I can. It’s just an infinite cycle of practicing.

Source: Rolling Stone

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cyarsk52-20 · 1 year

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BET Awards 2023: Meet Five Funniest Hosts Ever to Grace the Stage

These hosts were guaranteed to show audiences and viewers at home a good time.

For over two decades, the BET Awards has been honoring some of the biggest and brightest names in Black Hollywood, all with the help of an illustrious list of guest hosts. Emceeing a celebration of this magnitude is a task only reserved for someone who really knows how to command an audience and keep the laughter and night flowing without ever skipping a beat.

The following stars showed up and showed out during their hosting duties, keeping viewers entertained with hilariously funny moments coupled with a stage presence that still has us talking about them today.

Monique / 2002-2004 and 2007Comedian and Academy Award-winning actressMonique gave one the most iconic show openings during the 2004 ceremony, delivering a high energy and show-stopping dance number. The multifaceted entertainer hosted the show from 2002 to 2004 before returning to the 7th annual show in June 2007 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.RELATED: BET Awards 2023: Date Announced For Culture’s Biggest Night

Jamie Foxx / 2018It was a night of celebrating Black excellence when actor and musician Jamie Foxx took over hosting duties during the 2018 ceremony. The Oscar-winning star also gave a passionate piano-led tribute to singer Anita Baker.

Kevin Hart / 2011Comedian and actor Kevin Hart left viewers in stitches during his hosting of the 2011 BET Awards. The star’s presentation included several hilarious moments, including a step choreography featuring young performers and an appearance from his rap persona Chocolate Droppa.

Steve Harvey and Cedric the Entertainer / 2001On June 19, 2001, the original kings of comedy, Steve Harvey and Cedric the Entertainer, hosted the first ever BET Awards in Las Vegas at the Paris Las Vegas, where legendary rap duo Outkast earned the first award of the night.

Taraji P. Henson / 2021-Actress and producer Tarji P. Henson took over hosting duties at the BET Awards in 2021 following the show first ever virtual show—an effect of the COVID-10 pandemic that began in 2020.

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Holden Maples — Aquatic (2018)

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Competition: The Dance Awards Las Vegas (2018)

I’ve been wanting to do a review on this dance for a while now because it’s one of those solos that’s so memorable.

I didn’t really follow Holden’s dancing prior to Aquatic. All I knew about him was that he was the 2016 Junior Male Best Dancer. Even if I knew this, I still never had the impetus to watch his dances. It wasn’t until i) I heard that the news that he (deservingly) made it into the top three for Teen Male Best Dancer ii) his amaaaaaaazing improv at TDA, that I then took it upon myself to watch this dance.

To say that I was blown away is an understatement. For some reason, I genuinely felt unadulterated bliss from start to finish. -insert soothing ahhhh- It’s this type of dancing that reminds me why I loved watching dance in the first place.

Technical highlights include the control in Holden’s attitude turn into the reverse rond de jambe into a parallel passe, and this very cool turn section (which I, unfortunately, do not know how to accurately describe) when there was like a chassé into a float turn into a fouetté rond de jambe into a coupé and a developpé extension (all while turning, if that makes sense). The control and balance were exquisite. -insert internal screams-

Another technical shoutout to the butterfly and the good air time/ ballon -insert louder internal screams- and the really good recovery after the butterfly, seamlessly transitioning into an attitude into a low arabesque turn, step into four coupeé turns into a very nice leg fan kickesque extension. -insert 100000x internal screams-

Indeed, the choreography itself was stunning. I loved the texture of the dance with nice moments of pauses for emphasis, accents and small movements in between. This was really apparent in his well-executed contemporary work which was infused with some breakdancing (hip-hop? pop? lock?) elements, as well as being accompanied by great musicality, and of course, impeccable technique.

I also absolutely love the music. The dance really complemented the music because Holden is so fluid and moves like... water (hahaha).

On a minor side note, Holden also has beautiful feet.

While I’m sad that Holden didn’t win 2018 Teen Male Best Dancer, receiving second runner-up is still an outstanding achievement, especially when going up against very talented dancers. In sum, Aquatic to me was contemporary dancing at its finest. The choreography was unique, refreshing and looked great on a dancer with beautiful technique. And as a minor plus point, it wasn’t a typical leggy contemporary dance.

I can easily say that Aquatic is my favourite solo, not only from Holden but also the whole of 2018. After watching this dance, Holden has also become one of my favourite dancers (if not my favourite full-stop), and it’s always such a pleasure watching him move on stage.

#holden maples #aquatic #the dance awards 2018 #the dance awards las vegas #avant-gardancerreviews #dance #competition dance

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Hailee Steinfeld

I’m on the @whatiwillsay podcast this week to discuss all things Hailee Steinfeld - link!

Her Career

True Grit - 2010. Nominated at 14 years old for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award.

2015 - appeared in Shawn Mendes’ “Stitches” (acoustic) music video. Appeared in the Bad Blood music video. “Love Myself” single released.

Pitch Perfect 2 - 2015 / Pitch Perfect 3 - 2017

The Edge of Seventeen - 2016. Golden Globe nominee for Best Actress.

2016 - hit single “Starving” released

Marvel Cinematic Universe - Kate Bishop in Hawkeye, voiced Gwen Stacey in Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse.

2018 - “Colour” song and music video with MNEK, out gay British pop artist.

2019-2021 - played Emily Dickinson in “Dickinson” and was an executive producer on the show.

Hailee & Taylor

2011 - Taylor and Hailee were introduced by Emma Stone.

2012 - Hailee was backstage at the Red tour.

January 2013 - took trip together to Paris and posted about it. Several magazine articles. Taylor was in France to perform at an awards show in Cannes.

May 2013 - hung out at the Met Ball. Took Memorial Day trip together to Rhode Island and were papped.

September 2013 - papped shopping in West Hollywood. The night before, Taylor went to the Fun concert with Dianna and Sarah Hyland.

October 2013 - Taylor went to Hailee’s “Romeo + Juliet” movie premiere. Articles said Taylor was like Hailee’s big sister.

December 2013 - Hailee stayed over at Taylor’s house a few nights before Christmas. Posted some Swiftmas photos doing Christmas-y things.

January 2014 - hung out at a Golden Globes after party.

April 2014 - Glamour and Just Jared articles about Hailee and Taylor. They were papped walking around NYC going out to dinner. Hailee was 17 at the time. Taylor was 24. Hailee was on the cover of Nylon’s Young Hollywood issue. Hailee said that she and Taylor are good friends, “do everything together from baking cookies to vacationing in Rhode Island with matching outfits.”

March 2015 - iHeart Radio Awards.

May 2015 - Hailee was at Taylor’s after party for the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. One of the first Tayvin appearances.

Bad Blood Music Video - released in May 2015. Premiered at the Billboard Music Awards. Hailee and some of the squad attended. Hailee was “The Trinity” in the video.

1989 Tour - Hailee walked the stage with Taylor, Lena Dunham, Gigi, and Lily Aldridge at a July 2015 tour stop in New Jersey.

2015 VMAs - August 2015. Won a moon man for Bad Blood mv.

March 3, 2016 - Taylor posted a photo with Hailee, Selena, and Camila for Camila’s birthday.

August 2016 - Hailee interview in Billboard/Seventeen. The 1989 era squad doesn’t see each other very much. “Not as close with Taylor as people think.”

October 2016 - US magazine article about group chat with the squad. Hailee seemingly left the squad as it transitioned towards the Brit girls.

January 2021 - in a radio interview, Hailee learned that “Evermore” may be partially based on Emily Dickinson.

December 2021 - Ivy plays during the closing credits of a Dickinson episode after Emily and Sue have sex.

Public Romances

Charlie Puth - 2015 - Hailee was spotted backstage hanging out with him at the AMAs. Never officially confirmed.

Cameron Smoller - 2016/2017. Attended the Golden Globes and other events together. Posted about each other on IG. Maybe back together in 2019-2021, but probably just stayed friends. Went to a Republic Records party and a Billie Eilish concert.

Niall Horan - Dec. 2017/Dec. 2018. Friends beforehand. Attended some events together.

Possible WLW

October 4, 2015 - posted a photo of herself on stage and captioned it “G-A-Y”

June 12, 2016 - tweeted about attending LA Pride and joining the LGBTQ community at Pride. “I could have danced all night in celebration of our freedom and equality.”

Sophie Turner

2015 - release of the Barely Lethal movie they did together. Movie was filmed in 2013.

Friends from 2013 - 2016. Photographed holding hands and wearing similar-ish outfits in 2015, including at a Barely Lethal screening in LA and a fan meet and greet in London. Sat front row next to each other at a London fashion week show. 2014 - papped holding hands and getting ice cream in Malibu.

Reunited and took a photo together at Coachella in 2017. Hailee was there with Cameron and Sophie was there with Joe Jonas.

Hailee was rumored to have set Sophie and Joe up in 2016 when they first started dating. A rumor she denies, but she’ll “take credit for it” because they are cute together. (Jimmy Fallon)

Sophie and Joe announced their engagement in 2017. Married twice in 2019. As far as I can tell, Hailee did not attend either of Sophie’s weddings. Sophie is out as “falling for souls not genders” and admitted in an interview to previously dating men and women.

2019 - Hailee and Sophie danced together and hung out at the VMAs. The three also hung out at the Vanity Fair Oscar party that year.

In late 2021 on the Netflix roast of the Jonas Brothers, Sophie talked about Joe’s purity ring and described who Joe had his fingers in, “co-stars, actresses, and supermodels.” No mention of Taylor.

Hailee was voted the #1 woman on the 2022 L Chat Hot 100 poll.

#hailee steinfeld #wlw #gaylor #gaylor swift #podcast #sophie turner

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It's Britney Spears' birthday bitch. So here are 40 Britney facts!

-40 BRITNEY FACTS-

1. The muusic video for Break The Ice, is one of the two animeted Britney Spears music videoes

2. Baby One More Time was meant to be TLC's song, but they said no.

3. Cry Me A River by Justin Timberlake was written about Britney, after the couple broke up.

4. In the Michael Jackson 30th Anniversary, she sang The Way You Make Me Feel with him.

5. Gimmie More, according to the internet, is counted as "a striper anthem" and "a song you'll hear on GTA".

6. Some artists who were inspaired by Britney are Katy Perry, Ariana Grande and more!

7. Toxic won a GRAMMY for Best Dance Recording. It's Britney only GRAMMY (so far).

8. In the Opps I Did It Again music video, Britney fell on her head.

9. Her Las Vegas show "Piece Of Me", lasted for 5 years (2013-2018).

10. Britney loves to work out (duhhh...you can see it ALL over her Instagram).

11. The song If You Seek Amy was banned from radio, because it seems that Britney says: F-U-C-K ME.

12. 3 went to no.1 in its first week.

14. She started her carrer in the Disney show Mickey Mouse Club. Together with Justin Timberlake and Xtina.

15. Her "I'm A Slave 4 U" preformance at the 2001 VMAs is the most iconic preformance in the award show's history.

16. She began dancing in the age of 6.

17. She waz inspaired by Janet Jackson and Whitney Houston.

18. And if we're talking about the famous VMAs preformance, she preformed there 6 times: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 (with Xtina and Madonna), 2007 and 2016.

19. The famous kiss with Madonna wasn't planned at all. And you can also see Justin Timberlake's face when they kissed.

20. She was married for 72 hours.

21. Baby One More Time was almost the Power Rangers theme song (oh come on, imagine Power Rangers start with Baby One More Time. It would have been wired.).

22. Britney's favorite music video is Overprotected.

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23. She had earned more than 1 BILLION DOLLARS from her perfumes.

24. Her song "Hold It Against Me" was inspaired by Katy Perry.

25. And if we're talking about it, the song debuted at the no.1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100.

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26. Her song with the Backstreet Boys, Matches, was recored in 1999, 22 years ago!

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27. Her favorite food is chilli hot dogs.

28. Her favorite color is pink.

29. She got 2 kids.

30. She has a star on the Hollywood walk of fame

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31. Beyoncè, Pink and her did a cover of Queen's We Will Rock You for a Pepsi ad.

32. Piece Of Me won a VMA award for best music video.

33. The fans love Blackout, and count it as one of the best Britney album of all time.

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34. People think that her dute with Will.I.Am: "scream and shout", wasn't recorded by her.

35. Her recording lable dropped a new version of her 2016 album "Glory", featuring 3 new songs.

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37. Lucky was based on a true story-Britney's story. Someone who has everything in the world, but feels like she has nothing.

38. Womanizer remarked Britney's comeback, all the was back to 2008.

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39. Work B***, according to some people, is a "gay anthem".

40. She's Britney bitch.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRITNEY!!

#Spotify #music #britney spears #youtube

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xoxoproject21 · 3 years

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Project 21 1st place solos (BTF)

2033-2024:

Aliya Yen - Before it ends (Nuvo Santa Clara)

Aliya Yen - Mink Schmink (24 Seven Anaheim)

Berkeley Scifres - Cornet Man (24 Seven Anaheim)

Sara von Rotz - Champagne Taste (24 Seven Anaheim)

Elliana Anbardan - Somebody Help Me (24 Seven Anaheim)

Gracyn French - Silhouetted In Sunshine (Jump Las Vegas)

2022-2023 (11):

Esme Chou - No Sound But The Wind (Nuvo Meadowlands)

Esme Chou - No Sound But The Wind (24 Seven San Diego)

Esme Chou - No Sound But The Wind (Jump Long Island)

Sara Von Rotz - One Monkey Don't Stop No Show (Jump St. Louis)

Cali Cassidy - There'll be some changes made (Jump Honolulu)

Gracyn French - Silhouetted in Sunshine (24 Seven Glendale)

Kameron Couch - Wisp (24 Seven San Antionio)

Stella Eberts - Carved In Fire (Jump Detroit)

Avery Reyes - Trance (Jump Honolulu)

Elle O'Donnell - Only Time (Nuvo Anaheim)

Isabella Kouznetsova - Culmination (The Dance Awards Orlando)

2021-2022 (28):

Isabella Kouznetsova - I Gotcha (24 seven San Diego)

Isabella Kouznetsova - I Gotcha (Jump Las Vegas)

Isabella Kouznetsova - I Gotcha (Radix Anaheim)

Isabella Kouznetsova - I Gotcha (Nuvo Anaheim)

Isabella Kouznetsova - Wake up (Radix nationals)

Delilah Hewitt - These Boots (24 seven Reno)

Delilah Hewitt - These Boots (Radix Boston)

Delilah Hewitt - These Boots (Nuvo Salt Lake City)

Delilah Hewitt - These Boots (Jump Buffalo)

Audrina Mossembekker - Hound Dog (Radix Anaheim)

Audrina Mossembekker - Hound Dog (Nuvo Anaheim)

Audrina Mossembekker - Hound Dog (24 seven Glendale)

Gracyn French - Unravel Me (Jump Las Vegas)

Gracyn French - Ain’t that a kick in the head (Radix Glendale)

Gracyn French - Vogue (Nuvo Salt Lake City)

Selena Hamilton - Supermodel (24 seven Long Beach)

Selena Hamilton - Send in the clowns (Nuvo Salt Lake City)

Selena Hamilton - Supermodel (Radix Nationals)

Cece Chung - I'm Going Bananas (Radix San Francisco)

Cece Chung - I'm Going Bananas (Radix Nationals)

Dyllan Blackburn - A palé (Radix Santa Clara)

Dyllan Blackburn - A palé (Radix Nationals)

Regan Gerena - Cinema Italiano (Radix Santa Clara)

Anya Inger - Wishlist (Radix Boston)

Diana Kouznetsova - Rinse & Repeat (24 seven Glendale)

Cali Cassidy - If they could see me now (24 seven Glendale)

Esme Chou - Le Jazz Hot (Jump Providence)

Sammi Chung - Ave Maria (Nuvo Glendale)

2020-2021 (26):

Laci Stoico - Mibiso (Nuvo Dallas)

Laci Stoico - Mibiso (Nuvo Glendale)

Laci Stoico - Mibiso (Nuvo Miami)

Laci Stoico - Mibiso (24 seven San Antonio)

Laci Stoico - Mibiso (Radix Dallas)

Laci Stoico - Mein Herr (Jump Phoenix)

Laci Stoico - Mein Herr (24 seven Houston)

Gracyn French - A Character of Quiet (Jump Provo)

Gracyn French - A Character of Quiet (Nuvo Minneapolis)

Gracyn French - A Character of Quiet (TDA Orlando)

Gracyn French - Covergirl (24 seven Reno)

Gracyn French - Covergirl (Radix Biloxi)

Gracyn French - Covergirl (Radix Phoenix)

Dyllan Blackburn - Haunted (Jump Provo)

Dyllan Blackburn - Haunted (Nuvo Miami)

Dyllan Blackburn - Haunted (24 seven Reno)

Dyllan Blackburn - Haunted (Radix Phoenix)

Selena Hamilton - Black Car (Jump Provo)

Selena Hamilton - Black Car (Radix Phoenix)

Selena Hamilton - Keep an eye out (24 seven Reno)

Maddie Ortega - Summertime (Jump Reno)

Maddie Ortega - Summertime (Jump Anaheim)

Anya Inger - What If You Chose To Believe Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast (Jump Reno)

Anya Inger - What If You Chose To Believe Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast (24 seven New Orleans)

Regan Gerena - My Boyfriend’s back (Jump Provo)

Isabella Kouznetsova - Trouble (24 seven Houston)

2019-2020 (4- season cut short):

Laci Stoico - Wild (Nuvo Long Beach)

Dyllan Blackburn - Body Language (24 seven Anaheim)

Selena Hamilton - Remorse Is A Memory (24 seven Anaheim)

Gracyn - Truce (Radix nationals live)

2018-2019 (24):

Regan Gerena - Stupid Cupid (Radix Anaheim)

Regan Gerena - Stupid Cupid (Radix Nationals)

Regan Gerena - Stupid Cupid (24 seven Los Angeles)

Regan Gerena - See Line (Jump Anaheim)

Gracyn French - This Business of Love (24 seven Glendale)

Gracyn French - Garden Girl (Radix Anaheim)

Gracyn French - Garden Girl (24 seven Los Angeles)

Gracyn French - Garden Girl (Jump Houston)

Gracyn French - Garden Girl (Nuvo National Harbor)

Laci Stoico - Blackbird (Radix Anaheim)

Laci Stoico - Blackbird (24 seven Los Angeles)

Laci Stoico - Ave Maria (Radix Portland)

Laci Stoico - Nature Boy (Radix Houston )

Dyllan Blackburn - Body Language (Radix Nationals)

Dyllan Blackburn - Body Language (Radix Bethesda)

Dyllan Blackburn - 1977 (Nuvo Long Beach)

Dyllan Blackburn - 1977 (Radix Santa Clara)

Dyllan Blackburn - Joga (Radix Anaheim)

Selena Hamilton - Tongues (24 seven Los Angeles)

Selena Hamilton - Tongues (Jump Anaheim)

Selena Hamilton - Tongues (Radix Santa Clara)

Selena Hamilton - Head Explosion (Radix Nationals)

Isabella Rivera - Ain't Your Mama (24 seven Los Angeles)

Jamieson Deacy - Me & My Shadow (Radix Portland)

2017-2018 (8):

Gracyn French - Ivy (Jump Anaheim)

Gracyn French - Ivy (24 seven Los Angeles)

Gracyn French - Ivy ( Radix Portland)

Kami Couch- Supernova (24 seven Santa Clara)

Kami Couch- All that jazz (Radix Anaheim)

Selena Hamilton - Hand Covers Bruise (Jump Portland)

Kailyn Yi - Farewell (Jump Anaheim)

Kailyn Yi - Lotus Flower (Radix Nationals 2018)

2016-2017 (6):

Dyllan Blackburn - I Gotcha (Radix nationals)

Dyllan Blackburn - Rummage (Jump Anaheim)

Dyllan Blackburn - Rummage (Nuvo Anaheim)

Selena Hamilton - Beethovens Loss (Radix Vancouver)

Selena Hamilton - Beethovens Loss (Radix Tacoma)

Kalea Hidalgo - Back At My Cliff (Radix Nationals)

2015-2016 (2):

Dyllan Blackburn - There Is A World (Jump Los Angeles)

Raven Alanes - Dreams Remain (24 seven Santa Clara)

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The complete list of films featured in 2021′s “31 Days of Oscar” marathon

What follows is the exhaustive list of all 403 short- and feature-length films featured on this blog over the last thirty-one days for the 31 Days of Oscar marathon. This number is up from last year’s count of 327 and is the second-highest number of films I have ever featured in this marathon (behind the 410 films from 2016). Despite the number, this remains only a fraction of the nearly 5,000 films that have been nominated for Academy Awards. This year’s marathon was harder to plan than usual due to the fact it was presented in alphabetical order - with the exception of any write-ups I did.

BREAKDOWN BY DECADE 1927-1929: 7 1930s: 44 1940s: 63 1950s: 63 1960s: 46 1970s: 25 1980s: 29 1990s: 28 2000s: 25 2010s: 43 2020s: 30

Year with most representation (2020 excluded): 1940 (ten films) Median year: 1964

And now, the list. Best Picture winners and the one (and only) winner for Unique and Artistic Production are in bold. Asterisked (*) films are films I haven’t seen in their entirety as of the publishing of this post.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Ace in the Hole (1951)

Adam’s Rib (1949)*

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

After the Thin Man (1936)*

Airport (1970)*

Aladdin (1992)

Albert Nobbs (2011)

Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938)

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Almost Famous (2000)

An American in Paris (1951)

Anastasia (1956)

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Annie (1982)

Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)

Arrival (2016)

Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987, France)

The Awful Truth (1937)

Babe (1995)

Baby Doll (1956)*

Ballad of a Soldier (1959, Soviet Union)*

The Band Wagon (1953)

Bao (2018 short)

Ben-Hur (1959)

Berkeley Square (1933)

The Best Man (1964)

Better Days (2019, Hong Kong)*

The Big Chill (1983)*

The Birds (1963)

Birds Anonymous (1957 short)

Black Orpheus (1959, Brazil)

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)*

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2020)*

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Brief Encounter (1945)

Brotherhood (2018 short, Tunisia/Canada/Qatar/Sweden)

Cabin in the Sky (1943)

Calamity Jane (1953)

Carol (2015)*

Casablanca (1942)

Casino (1995)*

Charade (1963)

The Circus (1928)

Citizen Kane (1941)

City of God (2002, Brazil)*

Claudine (1974)*

Closely Watched Trains (1966, Czechoslovakia)

Coraline (2009)*

Da 5 Bloods (2020)*

Dances with Wolves (1990)

Death in Venice (1971)*

Destination Moon (1950)*

The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)

Down Argentine Way (1940)

Dunkirk (2017)

Easter Parade (1948)

The Edge of Democracy (2019, Brazil)*

Educated Fish (1937 short)*

El Cid (1961)*

Elmer Gantry (1960)

The End of the Affair (1999)*

Ernest & Celestine (2012, France/Belgium)

Face to Face (1976, Sweden)*

The Fallen Idol (1948)

Fantasia (1940)

A Fantastic Woman (2017, Chile)*

Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)*

A Farewell to Arms (1932)*

A Few Good Men (1992)*

Five Easy Pieces (1970)*

The Five Pennies (1959)

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)

Flower Drum Song (1961)

Flowers and Trees (1932 short)

Flying Down to Rio (1933)*

For All Mankind (1989)

For Sama (2019)*

Forbidden Planet (1956)

Forrest Gump (1994)

42nd Street (1933)

Four Days in November (1964)*

The Four Feathers (1939)

The 400 Blows (1959, France)

Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)*

From Here to Eternity (1953)

Funny Face (1957)

Funny Girl (1968)

Fury (1936)*

Gandhi (1982)

The Garden of Allah (1936)

Garden Party (2017 short, France)

Gaslight (1944)

Giant (1956)

Gigi (1958)

Gladiator (2000)

The Godfather (1972)

The Godfather, Part II (1974)

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)

Gorillas in the Mist (1988)*

Gosford Park (2001)

Grand Hotel (1932)

Grand Prix (1966)*

The Great Beauty (2013, Italy)

The Great Race (1965)

The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

Green Book (2018)

Green Dolphin Street (1947)*

The Green Mile (1999)*

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)

Gunga Din (1939)

Hair Love (2019 short)

Hallelujah (1929)*

Hamlet (1948)

Hamlet (1990)

Hamlet (1996)

Hangmen Also Die! (1943)*

The Happiest Millionaire (1967)

A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)

The Harvey Girls (1946)

Heartbreak Ridge (1986)*

The Heiress (1949)

Hell’s Angels (1930)*

Henry V (1989)

Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)

Hero (2002, China)*

Hidden Figures (2016)

The High and the Mighty (1954)*

High Noon (1952)

High Society (1956)

Himalaya (1999, France/Switzerland/United Kingdom/Nepal)*

Home Alone (1990)

Honeysuckle Rose (1980)*

Hoosiers (1986)

The House on 92nd Street (1945)*

How the West Was Won (1962)

How to Survive a Plague (2012)*

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

I Married a Witch (1942)*

I Never Sang for My Father (1970)

I Vitelloni (1953, Italy)*

I Wanted Wings (1941)*

I, Tonya (2017)*

Ida (2013, Poland)

Imitation of Life (1959)

In Cold Blood (1967)

In the Absence (2018 short, South Korea)

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Inherit the Wind (1960)

Inside Daisy Clover (1965)*

Inside Moves (1980)*

It Happened One Night (1934)

It Happened Tomorrow (1944)*

It Should Happen to You (1954)*

It’s Always Fair Weather (1955)

Jackie Brown (1997)*

Jammin’ the Blues (1944 short)*

Jaws (1975)

The Jazz Singer (1927)

Jerry’s Cousin (1951 short)

Jesus Camp (2006)*

Jezebel (1938)

Jim: The James Foley Story (2016)*

Joe’s Violin (2016 short)

The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)

Joyeux Noel (2005, France)

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

Julia (1977)*

Juliet of the Spirits (1965, Italy)

Kagemusha (1980, Japan)

The Karate Kid (1984)

The Killers (1946)*

The King and I (1956)

The King’s Speech (2010)

The Kite Runner (2007)

Knights of the Round Table (1953)*

Knives Out (2019)

Kundun (1997)*

La Ronde (1950, France)*

La Strada (1954, Italy)

La Traviata (1982, Italy)*

Lady Be Good (1941)*

The Lady Eve (1941)

The Ladykillers (1955)*

The Last Emperor (1987)

A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

The Life Ahead (2020, Italy)*

Life is Beautiful (1997, Italy)

Life with Feathers (1945 short)

Lili (1953)

Lilies of the Field (1963)

The Lion in Winter (1968)*

Little Caesar (1931)

A Little Romance (1979)

Little Women (2019)

Logan (2017)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Lost Horizon (1937)

Love Affair (1939)*

Love Story (1970)*

Loving Vincent (2017)

The Magic Flute (1975, Sweden)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Malcolm X (1992)

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

A Man for All Seasons (1966)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Maria Full of Grace (2004, Colombia)*

Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)*

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

Mighty Joe Young (1949)*

Milk (2008)

Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)*

The Miracle Worker (1962)*

Mon Oncle (1958, France)

Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953, France)*

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

My Fair Lady (1964)

My Favorite Wife (1940)

My Favorite Year (1982)

My Night at Maud’s (1969)*

The Narrow Margin (1952)

The Natural (1984)

Nebraska (2013)

Network (1976)

Night Must Fall (1937)*

Nightcrawler (2014)*

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Ninotchka (1939)

Nowhere in Africa (2001, Germany)*

Odd Man Out (1947)*

The Official Story (1985, Argentina)*

Oklahoma! (1955)*

Oliver! (1968)

On Golden Pond (1981)*

On the Riviera (1951)*

On the Waterfront (1954)

One Day in September (1999)*

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

One Foot in Heaven (1941)

One Hour with You (1932)

One Potato, Two Potato (1964)*

Only Angels Have Wings (1939)*

Our Town (1940)

Paisan (1946, Italy)

Pal Joey (1957)*

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006, Mexico)

Paper Moon (1973)*

Parasite (2019, South Korea)

The Parent Trap (1961)

A Passage to India (1984)*

Patton (1970)

Pelle the Conqueror (1987, Denmark)*

Period. End of Sentence. (2018 short)

Persepolis (2007, France)

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

Pigs in a Polka (1943 short)*

Pillow Talk (1959)*

Pinocchio (1940)

Places in the Heart (1984)*

Poltergeist (1982)

Portrait of Jennie (1948)

Precious (2009)*

The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)

The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927)*

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)*

The Producers (1967)

Psycho (1960)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Purple Rain (1984)

Puss Gets the Boot (1940 short)

Pygmalion (1938)

Quiet Please! (1945 short)

Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020, Bosnia-Herzegovina)*

Rachel, Rachel (1968)*

Ran (1985, Japan)

Random Harvest (1942)

Rashômon (1950, Japan)

Rasputin and the Empress (1932)*

Rear Window (1954)

Rebecca (1940)

Red River (1948)

The Red Shoes (1948)

A River Runs Through It (1992)

Road to Perdition (2002)

Roma (2018, Mexico)

Saludos Amigos (1942)

Same Time, Next Year (1978)*

The Secret of Kells (2009)

Sense and Sensibility (1995)*

Sergeant York (1941)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Seven Samurai (1954, Japan)

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

The Shape of Water (2017)

Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)*

She Done Him Wrong (1933)*

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

The Shootist (1976)

The Shop on Main Street (1965, Czechoslovakia)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Silverado (1985)

Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)

The Snake Pit (1948)*

Song of the Sea (2014)

Sounder (1972)

The Sound of Music (1965)

The Spanish Main (1945)*

Speedy (1928)

Speedy Gonzales (1955 short)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Spirited Away (2001, Japan)

Stagecoach (1939)

A Star is Born (1937)

A Star is Born (1954)

A Star is Born (1976)*

A Star is Born (2018)

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

Star Wars (1977)

Starship Troopers (1997)

The Sting (1973)

A Stolen Life (1946)*

The Story of Three Loves (1953)*

The Story of the Weeping Camel (2003, Mongolia)*

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)*

The Stranger (1946)*

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Strike Up the Band (1940)

Strings (1991 short)*

The Sundowners (1960)*

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

Superman (1978)

Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

Swing Time (1936)

T-Men (1947)*

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013, Japan)

Tangerines (2013, Estonia)*

Tenet (2020)

Them! (1954)

Theodora Goes Wild (1936)*

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)*

This is Cinerama (1952)*

The Three Musketeers (1948)

Three Orphan Kittens (1935 short)

Time (2020)*

Timecode (2016 short, Spain)

Tom Jones (1963)

Toni Erdmann (2016, Germany)*

Top Hat (1935)

The Triplets of Belleville (2003, France)*

The Truman Show (1998)*

12 Angry Men (1957)

Twilight of Honor (1963)*

Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)*

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Umberto D. (1952, Italy)

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, France)

Unforgiven (1992)

Up (2009)

Vertigo (1958)

Victor/Victoria (1982)

WALL-E (2008)

Watch on the Rhine (1943)*

Waterloo Bridge (1940)

Weary River (1929)*

West Side Story (1961)

Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968 short)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Wolfwalkers (2020)

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

You Can’t Take It with You (1938)

Zorba the Greek (1964)*

The 15 nominated short films for the 93rd Academy Awards

The 8 nominees for Best Picture at the 93rd Academy Awards, including the winner, Nomadland

Until next year’s ceremony, folks - February will be here before we know it!

#Oscars #31 Days of Oscar

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Skylar Wong

Competition/Convention Results

Competition, competing with Woodbury Dance Center:

2018-Age 5/6

?-Jazz or Musical Theatre-?

Starquest, Minneapolis II: unknown scoring

2019-Age 6/7

?-Jazz or Musical Theatre-?

Hall of Fame, St Paul: didn’t place

?-Tap, Jazz or Musical Theatre-?

Masquerade, Minneapolis III: didn’t place

?-Tap, Jazz or Musical Theatre-?

Masquerade, Minneapolis III: didn’t place, Steven Boyd Memorial Award

Hope-Lyrical-?

Showbiz, Minneapolis: 7th petite diamond solo

Spotlight, Minneapolis II: 1st elite gems petite solo

Masquerade, Minneapolis III: 2nd petite purple solo

Masquerade Nationals, Minneapolis: 2nd petite purple solo, National Petite Ms. Masquerade

2020-Age 7/8

Gold-Contemporary-?

KAR, Minneapolis: 1st secondary solo 6-8, Secondary Miss Petite Dance

24/7, Chicago: 8th mini solo (4 way tie)

NYCDA, Minneapolis: 2nd mini soloist

JUMP, Kansas City: 3rd mini solo (3 way tie)

Radix, Minneapolis: 7th mini solo

NUVO, Minneapolis: 6th mini solo

Storm Dance Virtual Competition: 1st age 7-9 solo, 12 and under highest scoring contemporary, Miss Junior Storm

Impact Dance Adjudicators Virtual: 1st in top 20 challenge 8 and under

Radix Nationals Live: Mini Female Core Performer Top 23

TDA Live: mini female best dancer solo, didn’t place

Elephants-Contemporary-Jessie James

Masquerade, Minneapolis III: 1st junior purple solo, Miss Petite Masquerade

Unspeakable Joy-Jazz-Katia Bode

Hall of Fame, Minneapolis (new date): 1st american league future hall of famer solo, technical excellence

2021-Age 8/9

Unspeakable Joy-Jazz-Katia Bode

NUVO, Omaha: 1st mini solo (3 way tie)

24/7, Knoxville: 2nd mini solo

Elephants-Contemporary-Jessie James

JUMP, Minneapolis: 2nd mini solo

JUMP, Overland Park: 3rd mini solo (4 way tie)

Impact Dance Adjudicators Virtual: 1st 9-11 solo top 20 challenge, technical excellence award

NYCDA, Minneapolis: 1st mini soloist, mini female outstanding dancer

NUVO, Minneapolis: 2nd mini solo (3 way tie)

Radix Nationals, Las Vegas: 2nd runner-up Mini Female Core Performer

NYCDA Nationals, Phoenix: 1st mini soloist, Mini Female Outstanding Dancer

TDA, Orlando: 1st runner-up Mini Female Best Dancer

Lovefool-Jazz-?

NYCDA, Lake Geneva: 1st mini soloist

Radix Nationals, Las Vegas: 2nd mini solo

Convention:

2019-Age 6/7

Radix, Minneapolis: cutting edge in jazz and contemporary, choice artist (Tina Caspray)

2020-Age 7/8

24/7, Chicago: mini female non-stop dancer runner-up

NYCDA, Minneapolis: mini female outstanding dancer runner-up

JUMP, Kansas City: mini female jump vip

Radix, Minneapolis: mini female core performer

NUVO, Minneapolis: mini female breakout artist runner-up

2021-Age 8/9

NUVO, Omaha: mini female breakout artist

24/7, Knoxville: mini female non-stop dancer

JUMP, Minneapolis: mini female jump vip

Radix, Phoenix: mini female core performer

NUVO, Minneapolis: standout in jazz and contemporary

NYCDA, Lake Geneva: rising star award

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Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani are engaged!

The couple made their engagement Instagram official on Tuesday with a sweet post from Stefani, 51, sharing a photo of her ring alongside her new fiancé, 44. A source close to Stefani confirmed to PEOPLE that the two got engaged over the weekend in Oklahoma.

"@blakeshelton yes please! 💍🙏🏻 gx," Stefani captioned the photo on Instagram.

Shelton shared the same post with a sweet caption.

"Hey @gwenstefani thanks for saving my 2020... And the rest of my life." he wrote. "I love you. I heard a YES!"

The happy couple first fell in love on the set of The Voice in 2015, bonding over their own recent heartbreak and respective divorces.

“When you’re where she and I were, and you just feel so betrayed and on bottom, this bond that we formed when we found out what each other were going through, it’s still there,” Shelton previously told PEOPLE.

Four years after news first broke that the couple was dating, a source told PEOPLE exclusively the entertainers were actively planning for a long-term future together.

“They’re still madly in love and beyond inseparable,” the source revealed in November. “Blake has wanted to take his time with marriage, but he is absolutely committed to Gwen. They both feel they’ve found their true partner in life and plan to be together forever.”

With packed work schedules between The Voice and Stefani’s Las Vegas residency, the couple have always remained “very supportive” of each other “both personally and professionally,” said the source.

In November 2018, Shelton, 42, pulled Stefani, 49, onstage when he and Voice host Carson Daly picked up an award for the competition show at the 2018 People’s Choice Awards in Santa Monica.

“All-time favorite coach, right there, Gwen Stefani. I love her,” Shelton said, pointing at the singer before Daly piped in, “You wanna come up? Come up and say a few [words]. Come on up!”

The former TRL host led the audience in a chant of, “Gwen! Gwen! Gwen!” as she made her way shyly up, taking her boyfriend’s hand to join the animated duo on stage.

“Oh my God, I’m so excited to be with Blake Shelton!” Stefani raved when Daly asked her to say something.

The loving couple regularly gives each other props on-air and over social media.

Although the "God's Country" singer is not quite as social media savvy as his new fiancé, he recently posted an adorable Tweet praising her 2019 Met Gala look.

“What’s most important to Gwen is somebody who has her back and is a best friend so that’s kind of how it started. It just feels like it gets stronger all the time,” Shelton said in 2017.

After releasing Texoma Shore in November 2017, fans immediately noticed that Shelton’s track “Turnin’ Me On” was all about his romance with Stefani.

A month later, Stefani shared an intimate moment between the couple while relaxing on their tour bus.

In the retro-looking Instagram video, Shelton serenades his girlfriend with an acoustic version of “Turnin’ Me On.”

“Pushing my buttons like it ain’t no thang,” Shelton sings in the video, as he lovingly stares at the pop singer. “If I’m what she wants, she gets what she wants / The neon’s buzzin’ when she pulls that string / Turnin’ me on like it’s her job / Sometimes I think she must get off on / Turnin’ me on, turnin’ me on.”

The Las Vegas Residency headliner has also given Shelton a few shout-outs of her own in her songs, including the 2016 track "Make Me Love You" from her album This Is What the Truth Feels Like.

The pair has teamed up for love duets, too — from their single, “Go Ahead and Break My Heart,” off of Shelton’s 2016 album, If I’m Honest, to the title track off of Stefani’s 2017 holiday album You Make It Feel Like Christmas.

Shelton previously revealed to PEOPLE that his pals initially thought Stefani was out of his league while they celebrated the opening of his new restaurant and bar Ole Red Nashville, which joins his existing location in Tishomingo, Oklahoma.

“When we first started seeing each other, friends of mine would be like, ‘What the hell is that all about?'” Shelton said. “But if you ever had a chance to be around us together, it does make sense.”

“I wouldn’t change one thing about my life right now,” he continued. “I’m happy. Sometimes happiness can seem like fleeting moments, but this one has been staying in the same lane for a long time. It’s just amazing.”

The No Doubt rocker also raved about PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive in November 2017, calling her beau "perfect."

A year later, the pair stole hearts once again when they debuted the music video for their Christmas duet in November 2018.

In the Sophie Muller-directed music video, Stefani and Shelton are living in a Christmas fantasy complete with tuxedos, ball gowns and plenty of old Hollywood glamour.

They also dance in front of an adorable live band of kids until some predictable setbacks get in their way — from bees in the conifer, mismatched snowmen, accidentally wrapping Shelton in Christmas lights, and trouble with a nutcracker.

In December, Stefani revealed during an interview with Today’s Natalie Morales that despite all the speculation (and prodding from Ellen DeGeneres) she and Shelton felt "zero pressure” to tie the knot.

“Going through all these hard times, [you] get to a place where you find somebody that’s like your best friend, that you know you can depend on and trust and go through life — we’re just trying to be in the moment as much as we can,” she explained.

Later that month, Shelton told Morales his relationship with Stefani was "meant to be."

“I’ve learned more from Gwen Stefani as a human being, and how to grow as a human being, than I have from anybody ever in my life — anybody,” he said. “She’s everything that you could hope a human being could be.”

This is the third marriage for Shelton, 42, who split from ex-wife Miranda Lambert in 2015 and was previously wed to Kaynette William from 2003 to 2006.

Throughout the years, the couple has enjoyed ducking away to Shelton’s Tishomingo ranch for holidays and quick getaways, in addition to spending plenty of time together with Stefani’s kids Kingston, 13, Zuma, 11, and Apollo, 5, from her past marriage to rocker Gavin Rossdale.

“Blake treats Gwen’s kids like they’re his own. They just glow when they’re together,” a source previously told PEOPLE.

Shelton's fellow Voice coach and longtime friend Kelly Clarkson said that he "has this gravitational pull" when it comes to being around kids.

"I’ve even seen him with Gwen's son Apollo and her kids, and he’s like this tree that they all climb on," she said.

Shelton previously talked about falling in love with Stefani's three boys. “For a long time, it was awkward trying to figure out what my place is and in their mind too,” he told PEOPLE. “The best part for me, selfishly, is discovering a part of myself that I guess I never really knew was in there. It’s definitely an instinct that kind of kicks in.”

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#1 F.A.Q.:

“Given how much has been done in the first decade following Michael’s tragic and untimely passing, it should not be a surprise that there is a natural slowing and spreading out of major releases as the Estate focuses more selectively on projects to enhance Michael’s legacy long term. While we appreciate that the fans want more releases, it is important to keep in mind all that has been created and released in this relatively short time. This includes a number of licensing deals such as the limited-edition collaborations with clothing companies like Supreme and Off White, the launch of the Michael Jackson slot machines, as well as all of the larger scale releases including:

2009: The documentary film This Is It, which remains the highest grossing music documentary/concert film in history. Also released was a compilation album with the same title that includes the songs featured in the film and a few bonus tracks including Michael’s unreleased track, “This Is It”. The album has sold in excess of five million copies worldwide making it the largest posthumous release in history.

2010: The Ubisoft game, Michael Jackson: The Experience. While there were many successful versions of the Ubisoft Just Dance videogame, this was the first (and only) time they released a dance video game dedicated entirely to a single artist! It was released on every major platform and went on to become one of the biggest selling video games on the Wii platform. There were also two releases under the Estate’s agreement with Sony Music – Michael, which was the first release of previously unfinished tracks that were worked on by various producers who had worked with Michael. Notwithstanding the controversy about three of the tracks on that album, it went to #1 around the world and sold more than five million copies. Visions, the complete collection of all of Michael’s short films, was also released.

2011: There have been two completely unique live stage shows created by the Estate in partnership with Cirque du Soleil. The first of these shows, Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour, travelled to arenas around the world for nearly 3 years. Along the way it grossed approximately $400 million at the box office making it one of the biggest tours of all time! And it won the Billboard Magazine Creative Content Award. There was also another release under the partnership with Sony Music – an album, Immortal, featuring remixes of Michael’s recordings created by Kevin Antunes, the musical director for both Cirque du Soleil shows, based on the songs used in the IMMORTAL show.

2012: There was a special Bad album re-release to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Bad album which included remastered versions of the tracks from the original album on one disc together with a second disc that included rarities as well as 6 previously unreleased demos by Michael from the recording sessions for the Bad album. It is worth noting that none of these demos would have been released as ‘new’ recordings, however they worked in the context of ‘bonus’ material for this anniversary release. Also included in the larger box set was a Live at Wembley CD – the first ever Michael Jackson live CD from any of Michael’s solo tours to be released. •Also, as part of the Bad 25th anniversary celebration, the Wembley concert from the Bad Tour was released on DVD. Michael’s performance at this concert is certainly the best live concert performance by any artist ever. As explained at the time, had we been able to locate any original source films/tapes for this performance we would have used those to create a fully edited concert. Unfortunately, that was not the case and we released the only thing we found – Michael’s own viewing copy of the concert. We continue to search for the original elements in the hopes that one day we will be able to share this concert in the best possible format. Just like the fans, we would be ecstatic if this happens. •There was the first of two long-form documentaries produced by the Estate with director Spike Lee at the helm, BAD25, which was premiered at the Venice Film Festival and broadcast on ABC in the United States and broadcast on television throughout the rest of the world. The longer “director’s cut” of the documentary was also released on DVD/Blu-Ray. •There was also a deal with Pepsi to promote the 25th anniversary of Bad and the Bad World Tour, for which Pepsi was the sponsor. As part of the deal with Pepsi, special limited-edition cans were released around the world.

2013: The second live show created by the Estate and Cirque du Soleil, Michael Jackson ONE, which is a more intimate show than the touring show, premiered at its permanent home at Mandalay Bay Resort & Hotel in Las Vegas. While we are aware that it is not possible for everyone to travel to Las Vegas to see this show, we are proud to say it continues to be one of the most successful Las Vegas shows. In fact, it is one of the best shows in the world and is a fitting tribute to Michael Jackson. While it was forced to shutter along with all other live events in early 2020 as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic, it will reopen when it is safe and will continue to entertain audiences for years to come.

2014: The second album featuring previously unreleased recordings, Xscape, was executive produced with L.A. Reid who brought in current producers including Timbaland, and the album also included the first posthumously released duet by Michael. Justin Timberlake joined Michael on a version of “Love Never Felt So Good”. This album went to #1 all over the world and another song from this album, “Slave To The Rhythm”, was featured in the hologram performance on the Billboard Music Awards, which gave the show its biggest ratings in decades.

2016: Based on the success of BAD25, the Estate and Spike Lee partnered on a second documentary, Michael Jackson’s Journey From Motown to OFF THE WALL, which looked back at Michael’s early career path and culminates with an in-depth look at Off The Wall. This critically acclaimed documentary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast on Showtime in the United States and by other broadcasters around the world. It was also released on Blu-Ray/DVD.

2017: To celebrate the connection between Michael Jackson and Halloween, there was the premiere of the original animated television special, Michael Jackson’s Halloween, which had the best ratings of the night outside of the World Series game. There were also special events in a half dozen select cities around the world that included the screening of the full length version of Ghosts, Michael’s epic short film with Stan Winston, and a special screening of Thriller 3D, which actually had its premiere at a return trip to the Venice Film Festival.. And there was a release of a Halloween themed compilation album/playlist, Scream. There was also another deal with Pepsi to include Michael in their global campaign, which again included the release of special limited-edition Pepsi cans featuring Michael Jackson imagery.

2018: The critically acclaimed Michael Jackson: On The Wall exhibition premiered at London’s National Portrait Gallery on June 28. Following its record setting run in London, the exhibition travelled to three other major European locations – Paris, France, Bonn, Germany and Espoo, Finland. This innovative and unique experience was appreciated and enjoyed by fans and other members of the general public in each city. •In July, a sample from a previously unreleased Michael Jackson recording, “It Don’t Matter To Me”, was licensed in a new similarly titled Drake recording, “Don’t Matter To Me” to further our intention of introducing Michael to new generations of fans through collaborations with current artists. This duet would become Michael’s 44th top ten Billboard chart hit. •And in August, on what would have been Michael’s 60th birthday, we hosted the Diamond Celebration in Las Vegas. In addition to all of the normal birthday festivities hosted by the Estate at Michael Jackson ONE in Las Vegas every year, there was an extra special party attended by invited guests and fans featuring a DJ set by Mark Ronson and a performance by Usher. •Thriller 3D was premiered in IMAX in a limited 1-week engagement in theaters around the world with the Universal/Amblin release, “The House With A Clock In Its Walls” to rave reviews. We hope to find opportunities to show Thriller 3D again in the future.

2019/2020: The Estate had a number of plans, including those for the 10th anniversary of the release of This Is It, that were all impacted by the release of Leaving Neverland. Regardless of the fact that it is not truthful and will be exposed for its lies, in the short term, its release made other media companies reluctant, at least temporarily, to license any new Michael Jackson programming. This has already started to pass. And, of course, in 2020 we are all dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic that has resulted in a delay for the opening of MJ the Musical on Broadway, as well as impacting other plans we had for this year.

All of this is a way to remind everyone how much the Estate actually has done in the last eleven years, and also to remind everyone that as the result of forces and events out of our control, we had to put a pause on big activities for the last eighteen months. There is a theory – one that Michael subscribed to – that one shouldn’t do too much, give the world a rest, and then surprise them with special projects. That remains the Estate’s intention. Michael continues to be the number one streaming catalog artist in the world and with soar to new heights when the Broadway show opens and we are able to complete and release the other projects in process.”

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Hamilton Movie: Meet the Original Cast

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Wait For It. More than just one of the best songs in Hamilton—that Aaron Burr has soul!—those words signify how long fans around the world have waited to see Hamilton performed. Not everyone could afford a ticket at the height of the musical’s popularity or lived near a city where the touring show has visited. Yet now, in times when the lights across Broadway are out, we all can be in the room where it happens.

Thanks to Disney+, and the $75 million the Walt Disney Company shelled out for the rights, a filmed performance with the original Broadway cast of Hamilton is here. For the diehards who’ve listened to the original Broadway cast recording hundreds of times, it’s like seeing old friends when Anthony Ramos as John Laurens, Daveed Diggs as Marquis de Lafayette, and Okieriete Onaodowan as Hercules Mulligan walk into a bar. But for those who may not have the soundtrack memorized by heart, and painful memories of standing outside the Richard Rodgers Theatre for the original Hamilton lottery, here’s a rundown of who’s who.

Lin-Manuel Miranda – Alexander Hamilton

A multi-hyphenate talent long before he stepped into Alexander Hamilton’s wool stockings, Lin-Manuel Miranda has had one of the most impressive careers of his generation in theater. The son of Dr. Luz Towns-Miranda and Luis A. Miranda Jr., the latter of whom arrived in New York as a Puerto Rico transplant and went on to become an advisor in Mayor Ed Koch’s administration, Lin-Manuel came from an impressive background. He arguably began his professional career at Wesleyan University by writing a one-act musical his sophomore year: In the Heights. Born and bred in New York, Lin strove to write a musical that infused the freestyle rap and salsa rhythm that he loved growing up in Washington Heights with the American musical tradition.

It impressed enough contemporaries and eventually professional producers that Miranda was able to spend years retooling it alongside playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes for Connecticut theater, Off-Broadway, and finally Broadway. All the while Miranda played protagonist Usnavi de la Vega in addition to having written the music and lyrics. It went on to win the Tony for Best Original Musical and Best Original Score, paving the way for Hamilton. Indeed, it was during an invitation to the Obama White House in 2009 as the In the Heights wunderkind where Miranda announced he was writing a hip hop album about Alexander Hamilton… and then shocked everyone with a stunning version of the show’s opening song.

Hamilton of course became a generation-defining musical that Miranda wrote the music, lyrics, and book for, in addition to playing the titular U.S. Treasury Secretary. Both as an Off-Broadway production at the Public Theater and Broadway behemoth, Hamilton made headlines and sold out performances. The musical won its creator international acclaim, numerous Tonys, Drama Desk Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It also paved the way for Miranda to have a career in Hollywood.

Starring in Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns (2018), Miranda has developed a close relationship with the Mouse House where he’s also written and co-written songs for Moana (2016), which he received an Oscar nomination for, and the upcoming The Little Mermaid remake. He is also an outspoken advocate for Puerto Rico where he spent summers with his grandparents growing up. After hurricanes Irma and María in 2017, Miranda has raised funds for rescue efforts and rebuilding, including by reprising the role of Alexander Hamilton in a touring production that began with performances in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In advance of the tour, his family donated $1 million to the University of Puerto Rico. And just for the record, he plays the voice of Gizmoduck on the new DuckTales.

Leslie Odom Jr. – Aaron Burr

Likely still best known for playing Aaron Burr both off and on Broadway, Leslie Odom Jr.’s theater career began well before Hamilton. Getting his start by playing the significant supporting part of Paul on Broadway in Rent in 1998 (Odom was aged 17 at the time), the actor moved into a stage career quickly while also pursuing a BFA at Carnegie Mellon University. Born in Queens and growing up in Philadelphia, Odom had a lifelong love of the theater, which led to him rising up through the wings where he played ensemble roles in Jersey Boys, Being Alive, and a concert version of Dreamgirls.

Odom’s first major starring role was as Isaiah Sturdevant in a musical version of Leap of Faith, both during its out of town tryout in Los Angeles and its Broadway debut in 2012. But he began his significant professional relationship with Lin-Manuel Miranda with an Encores! Concert performance of Tick, Tick… Boom!, a musical written by Rent composer Jonathan Larson that was not performed in his lifetime. It paved the way for Odom to land the second starring role of Hamilton when the musical premiered at the Public Theater in 2015 and on Broadway later that year. Odom would go on to win a Tony for Best Actor in a Musical by playing the trigger-happy vice president.

Beyond theater, Odom enjoys a successful recording career, releasing his first of two solo jazz albums, Leslie Odom Jr., in 2014 well-before playing Burr. He also has transitioned to Hollywood. Already having played smaller guest roles on network television shows like CSI: Miami and Smash, after Hamilton he had a starring role in Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and played abolitionist William Still in 2019’s Harriet Tubman biopic, Harriet.

Daveed Diggs – Marquis de Lafayette / Thomas Jefferson

A musician, rapper, and writer as renowned for his musical career as his theatrical one before Hamilton, Daveed Diggs’ hip hop ability earned him the distinction of “fastest rapper on Broadway” with the ability to speed through 19 words in three seconds during Layfette’s solo in “Guns and Ships”—though he jokes in the rap world that is only “medium fast.” Still, it was that ability that led Lin-Manuel Miranda to invite Daveed Diggs to early Hamilton workshops in 2012.

Before that Diggs had developed notoriety for being the lead vocalist and writer for experimental hip hop and rap group, Clipping. Joining William Huston and Jonathan Snipes in 2010 on the west coast scene, the group released their first mixtape album, midcity, in 2013. Diggs also enjoyed a theatrical career before either Clipping or Hamilton. In fact, after growing up in Oakland, he attended Brown University where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Theatre Arts. He then initially pursued work in experimental theater, including on the national tour for Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s Word Becomes Flesh, as well as work in regional Shakespeare productions, including playing Caliban in a San Francisco production of The Tempest.

Since playing Lafayette and Jefferson in Hamilton both at the Public Theater and on Broadway, winning a Tony for the latter, Diggs has pursued a multimedia career that includes the vastly underrated Blindspotting, an indie film that includes poetic verse interludes that Diggs co-wrote and produced. He earned a Spirit Award nomination for Best Male Lead for his performance. He also did a major stint on ABC’s Black-ish before starring in The Get Down and now Snowpiercer on TV. He also appeared in the movies Wonder, Velvet Buzzsaw, and Pixar’s upcoming Soul.

Christopher Jackson – George Washington

Before Hamilton for Christopher Jackson and Lin-Manuel Miranda, there was In the Heights. Indeed, Jackson played the supporting role of Benny opposite Miranda in that show during both its Off-Broadway and on Broadway runs in New York City. Yet even by that point, Jackson had already developed an impressive theatrical career, starring in his first Broadway musical at the age of 21 in the original cast of The Lion King.

After attending American Musical and Dramatic Academy, the Illinois-born Jackson broke into theater with Time and the Wind Off-Broadway and then as part of the ensemble in Disney’s groundbreaking The Lion King in 1997. He would go on to play the lead role of Simba in the show several years later. Afterward, he starred in a number of major productions that include Memphis, Cotton Club Parade for the Encores! Concert series, and Bronx Bombers, in which he played a singing and dancing version of Derek Jeter. He left that production though to work again with his playwright pal on Hamilton. In addition to starring in the off and on Broadway productions of the show, Jackson is the only Hamilton cast member besides Miranda who was with the musical since the beginning, playing the rapping-on-metronome American president in the show’s 2014 Vassar Workshop.

Since Hamilton, Jackson has added to his TV credits by appearing in Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us and Apple TV’s Central Park. He also confirmed to Den of Geek earlier this year he has a cameo in the In the Heights movie and will be appearing in Miranda’s upcoming film version of Jonathan Larson’s Tick, Tick… Boom!

Phillipa Soo – Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

The daughter of a Chinese-American father and European-American mother, Phillipa Soo was fresh out of Juiliard when she landed her first major starring role in a musical. That production, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, was Dave Malloy’s ambitious adaptation of a 70-page segment of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Soo originated the role of Natasha Rostova in the musical’s three original Off-Broadway runs between 2012 and 2013. And it was during one of these performances that Hamilton director Thomas Kail and Lin-Manuel Miranda were in attendance. Afterward they asked her to read for the lead role of Eliza, the Schuyler Sister who would become Alexander Hamilton’s wife.

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Soo originated the role of Eliza both at the Public Theater and on Broadway, earning a Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Musical. Soo would go on to star in the eponymous role of the Broadway adaptation of Amélie in 2017, being nominated again for a Tony. Later that same year, she starred in The Parisian Woman, an original play by Beau Willimon, for a limited run between November 2017 and March 2018. She also starred in CBS’ short-lived military legal drama series, The Code.

Renée Elise Goldsberry – Angelica Schuyler

Winning the Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her rendition of Angelica, Renée Elise Goldsberry was another of the breakout stars of the original Hamilton cast. Born in San Jose, California before growing up in Texas and Michigan, Goldsberry began her career in equal parts television and theater. After graduating with a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, and then earning a Master of Music in Jazz Studies at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, Goldsberry went on to appear in a national tour of Dreamgirls and make her first appearance on Ally McBeal in the same year, 1997. Appearing as one of the backup singers behind Vonda Shepard on the Fox drama, Goldsberry appeared in 43 episodes between ’97 and 2002. On Broadway she’d go on to star as Nala in The Lion King, as Mimi in Rent, and originate the role of Nettie Harris in the original Broadway cast of The Color Purple in 2005.

In television, her credits include a 272-episode stint on One Life to Live, guest spots on Star Trek: Enterprise, Royal Pains, Masters of Sex, Documentary Now!, and The Following, and a major recurring role as Geneva Pine on The Good Wife. More recently she is among the stars of Netflix’s Altered Carbon and featured in a supporting role in Trey Edward Shults and A24’s Waves.

Anthony Ramos – John Laurens / Philip Hamilton

The upcoming star of the In the Heights movie, where Ramos plays a role that Lin-Manuel Miranda originated and wrote, Ramos’ life has turned out quite a bit different than he initially planned. How could it not when in high school he intended to pursue NCAA Division III Basketball and then a career in basketball coaching? Instead the Brooklyn born Ramos got a full scholarship to the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, a conservatory for the performing arts, and graduated from its musical theatre program in 2011. A year later he appeared in a supporting role of In the Heights’ touring production before starring in Radio City Music Hall’s short-lived Heart and Lights. Seriously, it was cancelled during previews.

That turned out to be a blessing though, as it led Ramos to audition for Hamilton, securing him the dual role of Hamilton’s doomed BFF John Laurens and then Hamilton’s doomed firstborn son, Philip, in both the Public Theater and Broadway productions of the show. Miranda clearly thinks Ramos is looking for a breakout role, particularly after starring in a memorable supporting role in Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born remake, as Lady Gaga’s bestie Ramon, and featuring in supporting roles in Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Trolls World Tour. In the Heights should be it.

Okieriete Onaodowan – Hercules Mulligan / James Madison

The cast member to stay the longest on Hamilton, Okieriete Onaodowan played the wildly different roles of Hercules Mulligan, an American spy on the British Army in New York, and founding father and future U.S. president, James Madison. The son of Nigerian immigrants, Onaodowan was born in Newark, New Jersey where he began pursuing professional theater after high school. Appearing in numerous off and off-off-Broadway productions, Onaodowan eventually broke through by appearing as “Rock & Roll Boyfriend” in the national tour of Green Day’s American Idiot musical. Afterward he appeared in a 2012 Broadway production of Cyrano de Bergerac.

In 2014 he was the understudy for the role of Apollo Creed in the short-lived Broadway musical version of Rocky but then achieved stardom with Hamilton, both at the Public and on Broadway. He also took over the leading role of Pierre Bezukhov from Josh Groban in the Broadway version of The Comet of 1812. He also has numerous TV credits that include Blue Bloods, Ballers, Girls, The Get Down, Grey’s Anatomy, and an episode of BoJack Horseman.

Jasmine Cephas Jones – Peggy Schuyler / Maria Reynolds

Before she played the relentlessly insistent Peggy, Brooklyn born Jasmine Cephas Jones had already begun a film and television career that included supporting roles in Blue Bloods and Noah Baumbach’s Mistress America. A graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, Hamilton was only her second stage credit, and first one on Broadway. Since then she’s also played Roxanne opposite Peter Dinklage in a musical version of Cyrano de Bergerac, and appeared in Baumbach’s Marriage Story as well as Stella Meghie’s The Photograph.

Jones has also pursued a musical career with her debut album Blue Bird. And in a little bit of Hamilton trivia, she is married in real-life to Anthony Ramos, whom she met in the Public Theater production of the musical.

Jonathan Groff – King George III

Wow, from Kristoff to Mad King George, Jonathan Groff is really showing his range on Disney+ these days! Yep, one of the most well-known mainstream actors pre-Hamilton, Groff made himself a household name, at least with musical theater and animation geeks, by playing Kristoff in Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Frozen (which he reprised in last year’s Frozen II). He also played the recurring villainous and then redeemed (I guess) Jesse St. James on Fox’s now infamous Glee.

Prior to any of that though, Groff came from the theater, beginning his career straight out of high school and breaking through with the starring role of Melchior Gabor in Spring Awakening. Originating the role both Off and then on Broadway in 2006, he received a Tony nomination for Best Actor in a Musical for the performance. He followed that up with a Shakespeare in the Park production of Hair in 2007.

Groff went on to be nominated for a Tony for his show-stealing mugging as foppish, Top 40-listening King George–a nice feat since he was the only Original Broadway cast member who did not appear in the Public Theater production. And most recently he starred on stage as Seymour to rave reviews in an Off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors. But he’s probably best known to many now as Holden Ford, the FBI special agent with a very peculiar fascination with serial killers in the David Fincher-produced Netflix series, Mindhunter.

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