Pomplamoose perform an excellent mashup of pop hits with the word “Bad” in the title – Michael Jackson’s Bad, Taylor Swift’s Bad Blood, Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance, and even Inner Circle’s Bad Boys given a tribute here.
Watch This Dance Group Representing The Differently-Abled Community Slay On The Floor
American choreographer Jacob Jonas, who began his career with legendary Venice Beach boardwalk dancers, the Calypso Tumblers, collaborates in this thoughtful new film with ILL-Abilities—a dance group representing the differently-abled community, basing the performance on the group’s mantra: “No excuses, no limits.” As a dance group, ILL-Abilities are made up of the world’s best differently-abled breakdancers,” explains Jonas, an award-winning dance-maker. “I was inspired by these artists with real stories who have overcome an obstacle of their own, inspiring others.”
Mel C On The Ups And Downs And Girl Power Of The Spice Girls
You were at the party but you were uncompromisingly relied upon to bring the energy and happiness to that party, night after night after night.
Mel C: That has its pros and cons. It is such an odd career, and such an odd thing to do with yourself. Obviously, at that time we were followed everywhere; fans waited for us everywhere, paparazzi was always present, so you always have to be on and that’s why the whole thing feels so tiring. Some people in the public eye handle things differently and will tell people to “f**k off,” but personally for me, you always have to be nice. We had such a young audience, and that pressure was always present to be a role model. As a young person, you have to make mistakes, but then there’s the pressure of always behaving like a role model. We ways took that seriously because we knew we had super young fans. You do get so much from it though; you are living out your dreams, your childhood fantasies. When you are making music and people are loving it and singing it back to you it’s amazing. It’s more social media-driven now, but l still receive fan mail and tweets. I’ve met quite a lot fans, meet and greets at shows are great. In the ’90s we never really did that, but we did do that on my last tour, and meeting fans and hearing their stores is incredible because literally your music has molded and shaped people’s lives and given them strength and that’s what l loved.
Girl power was a defining theme throughout my late childhood and l really drew strength from this bright, musical club that was exclusively geared towards women. I remember feeling like men held so much power in the ’90s, but this fun and fierce attitude championed by the Spice Girls was revelatory. You shattered and mocked sexism’s limiting stuffy, dated and ignorant opinions.
Mel C: It’s amazing because it wasn’t intended; it happened so naturally. We were going into labels and magazines and hearing, “Well girl bands don’t sell, it’s all about the boy bands,” and you can imagine us five — five opinionated women. We realized, we have a point to prove here. We started as a band, trying to dress the same, singing other people’s music, messing about and then we were meeting producers and becoming frustrated. We thought, Victoria looks ridiculous in casual clothes, and l look stupid in a babydoll dress. We were trying all these different styles because it was the ’90s and when we used to show up to rehearsals every day l would be in trackie, Emma would be in a babydoll dress, Geri would be in something kooky, and we just thought, Why don’t we just wear what we wear and be ourselves? We never gave it that much thought.
Within the band there are strong characters, some quieter than others. Together we were just a force and we gave each other the strength. There were a few lineup changes before Emma was introduced into the band. Then when she was there, something really special happened. It was like she was the missing piece in the jigsaw. There was just this shift, and we all started to feel like something special was happening, before we had a sea, we used to go out, to a club and there would be a queue and Geri would say, “We are a band. Let us in.” and we would get in. There was something about the power of us all together and the solidarity that we had. When we did come up against any adversity we said, “Just do it.” It was a magical thing.
Video: Spinal Tap bass player Derek Smalls says goodbye to his old band
Spinal Tap bass player Derek Smalls says goodbye to his old band, thinks about life in his old age, gets ready to go back on the road for a tour to promote his new solo album, Smalls Change (Meditations Upon Ageing).
John Krasinski Answers the Web’s Most Searched Questions
‘A Quiet Place’ director and star John Krasinski takes the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answers the internet’s most searched questions about himself. Does John Krasinski play basketball? Is he married to Jenna Fischer? Can John Krasinski sing?
Doc Martens Just Lowed The Price On Their William Blake Boots
The 1460 is the original Dr. Martens boot. Its recognizable DNA looks like this: 8 eyes, grooved sides, a heel-loop, yellow stitching, and a comfortable, air-cushioned sole. This season, the shoe company adorned it with a piece of British history: a print of artist William Blake’s “Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils”. Ever the creative, freethinking individual, Blake perfectly embodies the spirit of Dr. Martens — and that’s why they collaborated with Tate Britain to feature two of his most famous, provocative paintings. You can get them here, at an even lower price than when first launched.
David Bowie as Nikola Tesla in ‘The Prestige’
Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) commissions a machine from Nikola Tesla (David Bowie) during Tesla’s time in Colorado Springs. This video clip is taken from the motion picture The Prestige, and was released in theatres back in 2006.
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I LOVE This Idea: A Vending Machine Now Distributes Free Short Stories
The Short Story Dispenser offers intellectual breaks to enchant readers, while enabling businesses with lengthy wait times to improve upon their customer experience. Put a story where people gather in your business, surprise them poetically and encourage interaction, so they leave with a smile.
With the Short Story Dispenser, you can improve your customer relationship by transforming the low points of their experience (having to wait, feeling ignored, impatience, etc.) into highlights (surprise, smiles, a great read).
Short Édition’s aim is to adapt literature to the modern world by combining short literature, the community and technology. In this way Short Édition uses passion and humour to inspire the community of readers and authors who dare to like short stories. Created in 2011, Short Édition has generated over 19 million readings of works and now has more than 230,000 reader subscribers to its participatory platform, short-edition.com, designed for reading on the move.
9,000 of their authors have been selected and promoted by the readers of the Short Édition community. They have written the works offered on the short-edition.com platform. The shortest and best are selected to be offered to the public via the Short Story Dispenser. They have signed a publishing contract with Short Édition which protects them, gives Short Édition responsibility for managing their creative output and enables them to receive royalty payments. Our authors are therefore paid in royalties, every time their work is accessed in a Short Story Dispenser.
What Birds Do Metal Singers Sound Like?
Bird scientist Tom Stevenson listens to famous metal songs and tell us what birds he thinks the vocalists sounds like. Tom seriously invented an app called BirdGenie which can identify a bird by it’s song.
Fingerstyle Kids’ TV Show Medley
Are you an 80s or 90s kid? Fancy some retro nostalgia? Here’s a medley of some of the best 80s and 90s kids TV themes broadcast in the US and UK/Ireland, played on solo fingerstyle guitar, as played by John Tracey.