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This Video of Young Girls Dancing To Beyoncé's 'Freedom' Will Give You Chills


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There’s a lot to be mad about in the world today. (Think: Trump, Congress, Harvey Weinstein, the wage gap… you get the idea.) Which might be why this new video is really resonating with us.

Beyoncé lent her song “Freedom” to the #FreedomForGirls campaign just in time for the International Day of the Girl on Wednesday. It features fierce little girls, ages 5 through 11, singing along to the power anthem. And they. Are. Angry.

The #FreedomForGirls campaign is promoting the UN’s Global Goals, an ambitious set of objectives for what the world should look like by 2030. It’s a partnership between Project Everyone, UNICEF, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The video was directed by MJ Delaney.__

This is the second time Delaney has teamed up with Project Everyone to create a video promoting the Global Goals. Last year, she used the classic Spice Girls song “Wannabe” to ask girls what they really, really want. (Answer: equality.) But this year, Delaney decided to strike a very different tone. “Happy, smiley joy doesn’t really cut the mustard now,” she says. “A lot has happened globally, and I wanted to do something defiant and angry and demanding.”

Also, Delaney says, “I feel like the only place you can go after the Spice Girls is Beyoncé.”

So what are the girls mad about? Violence against girls (which kills a girl every 5 minutes), child marriage (1 in 4 girls is affected), trafficking (71 percent of victims are female), female genital mutilation (63 million girls have undergone it), access to education (130 million girls are out of school), and HIV/AIDS (girls are twice as likely to be infected). For starters.

The Global Goals can create a world free of all of that injustice by 2030. But the only way to get there is by pressuring world leaders into action, and inspiring individuals to make a difference in their own communities. “Hopefully, we can use the Global Goals to define this spirit of defiance and optimism and demanding that we all feel,” Delaney says. “Every single person in the world has the ability to change something.”

To take action, share the film with what #FreedomForGirls means to you. You can also visit the Global Goals website for more information on groups that are working toward gender equality around the world.



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Chrissy Teigen's Beauty Routine Was Documented in This Mesmerizing Video


For some of us, getting ready for a night out can take hours: the shaving of the legs, the taming of the brow—plus whatever makeup combo we’ve opted for, whether it’s a dark lip or a smoky eye (and, let’s be real, we save a little extra time for a shaky eyeliner do-over). New video footage has surfaced, however, as a reminder that stars are just like us—that is, if we had four hands instead of two doing all the work. And in an ideal world, our own two hands would be scrolling through Twitter and checking Instagram while we got beautified. For Chrissy Teigen, that’s exactly how it works, according to a mesmerizing video her makeup artist, Emma Osborne, posted on Friday.

The time-lapse video opens with Teigen perched in her chair, waiting for her glam squad to begin. She’s in a bathrobe and has towel-dried hair, face bare of any visible product (she looks pretty gorg already, to be honest). A quick cameo by a shirtless John Legend adds to the stunning physical effect. Then, it begins: a flurry of hands drying and styling her hair, applying product, and brushing on mascara comprises the absolute symphony that takes Teigen from out of the shower to out on the town.

Watch the 35-secondish video below:

Here, Teigen’s going for nude lips, a trademark bold brow, and her usual bronzed and dewy complexion—thanks to help from a few products, like the famous Beautyblender, EX1 Cosmetics, Iconic London (Teigen’s been known to wear the company’s illuminator), and Becca Cosmetics (which Teigen did a collab with).

So cool, right? Apparently the whole process actually took the two pros a total of an hour and a half—which means about three hours for us mere mortals with only two sets of hands, plus a little more for that damn eyeliner.

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Barack Obama Surprises Michelle With Anniversary Video Message


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Grab the tissues — Barack Obama is at it again, bringing us, and Michelle Obama, to tears.

While we (and probably Michelle) doubted Barack would be able to outdo his previous sweet social media messages to his wife, it seems he pulled out all the stops for their 25th wedding anniversary. On Tuesday, the former POTUS surprised his wife at the Pennsylvania Conference for Women in Philadelphia — where Michelle was in conversation with Shonda Rhimes — with an incredibly touching and gracious video message.

During the event, Obama appeared on a screen, first apologizing for “crashing” the event, before launching into a two-minute speech that People reports left Michelle teary-eyed and blushing. Obama also shared his message to his Facebook page and, unsurprisingly, his sincere sentiments have racked up 90,000 Likes in just one hour.

“The idea that you would put up with me for a quarter of a century is a remarkable testament to what a saintly, wonderful, patient person you are,” he says in the video. “It was a lot easier for me to do it because the fact of the matter is that not only have you been an extraordinary partner, not only have you been a great friend, somebody who could always make me laugh, somebody who would always make sure that I was following what I thought was right, but you have also been an example to our daughters and to the entire country. Your strength, grace, your determination, your honesty, the fact that you look so good doing all this…is remarkable.”

He continued: “It’s no wonder that as people got to know you the way that I got to know you, they fell in love. And it is truly the best decision that I ever made to be persistent enough in asking you out for a date, that you finally gave in. I hope you feel the same way.”

After Obama’s message, Michelle, per People, turned to Shonda and joked, “I better get home.”

Earlier in the day, Michelle shared her own message—a black-and-white photo from their wedding—on Twitter. “Happy 25th anniversary @barackobama. A quarter of a century later, you’re still my best friend & the most extraordinary man I know. I ? you” she captioned it.

Barack and Michelle’s quarter century of cute moments began in 1989, when they went on a date to see Do the Right Thing. In the years since, the two have shared two kids, a stint in the White House, started a foundation, and, most importantly, shared several goal-worthy moments for the country to swoon over.



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Taylor Swift Regrets Leaving One Thing Out of Her 'Look What You Made Me Do' Video


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Have you watched Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” music video yet? Of course you have, that was a trick question. But if you haven’t, you should probably change that immediately if you fancy yourself as a knowledgeable pop culture consumer.

Anyway, there are a copious amount of “Easter eggs” and shady references scattered throughout the Reputation track’s video, with one particular scene showcasing Taylor and her girl gang robbing the vaults of a streaming company called “Stream Co.”—a not-so-subtle reference to her years-long feud with Spotify, which recently ended with Taylor finally allowing the company to stream her songs once again.

In a new behind-the-scenes vignette chronicling what it was like to film the “Stream Co.” scene in the music video, Taylor revealed how fun it was to act and go crazy in the heat of the moment. “The absolute idiocy of this scene is that we’re, like, robbing a streaming company as if they have a vault of cash and all the girls are shoving money into their really well-coordinated, primary color, awesome Gucci outfits wearing ridiculous kitten masks,” she explained. However, upon hearing herself say the fateful words, “kitten masks,” Taylor realized how much better the scene could’ve been if the masks bore more resemblance to her beloved Scottish Fold cat, Olivia Benson, whose ears slightly flop down the top of her head. (Yes, she was named after the equally-beloved Law and Order: SVU character.)

“Obviously, if it was Olivia though, she’d be all ears,” Taylor explained, folding down the ears to the front of the mask. “Which we really should’ve thought of. We really, really should’ve stapled their ears. Why? God, you get the best ideas after it’s too late!” Celebrities, they really are just like us, minus the multi-million dollar albums deals.

Watch it all unfold, below:

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Kendall Jenner Is Literally the Only Person in Fergie's New Music Video


Kendall Jenner isn’t just a star of Fergie’s new music video “Enchanté (Carine).” She’s the star, co-stars, and every and all supporting players.

The model appears in every scene, wearing in an impressive collection of outfits to make dinner party, walk the dog, and lip sync to Fergie’s new track. Just saying: It’s hard not to see parallels between the many Kendalls on-screen and the mountain of Taylors from Swift’s mega-hit video for “Look What You Made Me Do.” Maybe 2017 will be the year of the mimeograph music video?

Jenner isn’t the only young star to leave a mark on the video. Fergie’s son, Axl Jack Duhamel, has a credit on the song for adding his adorable 4-year-old vocals to the track. Though this music video marks a notable release from Fergie’s new visual album, “Double Dutchess,” this month’s headlines have focused on the musician’s personal life rather than her music. After an eight-year marriage, the singer recently announced she and Josh Duhamel are divorcing. The two released a joint statement explaining, “We are and will always be united in our support of each other and our family.”

This isn’t the first time Jenner and Fergie have collaborated on a music video. The model appeared in the 2016 video for The Black Eyed Peas’ “#WHERESTHELOVE ft. The World,” which focused on raising awareness of recent international and domestic acts of violence and featured celebrities, including Justin Timberlake, Usher, and DJ Khaled. Though Jenner’s cameo in the video is brief, it was likely great lip-synching practice for her latest Fergie collab.

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Watch Taylor Swift Transform Into a Zombie for Her 'Look What You Made Me Do' Music Video


Let’s be honest: a fair number of us were already planning on dressing up as the zombie version of Taylor Swift from her “Look What You Made Me Do” music video for Halloween this year. After all, her look is one of the most iconic moments of 2017 so far. But for those of us unskilled in the special effects makeup department, it might prove difficult to recreate. Taylor gave us a little sneak peek into the making of her undead look in a YouTube video—and it honestly seems a little over-the-top, but hey, it’s for a good cause. (We’re surprised she didn’t change the lyrics to “I’m sorry, Taylor can’t come to the phone right now because she’s been in the makeup chair for 12 hours.”)

We’re sure there’s simpler ways to achieve the effect for Halloween, but T.Swift’s video look involved a ton of moss (all over) to get that freshly-arisen-from-the-grave effect, as well as prosthetics for her face, grayish blue contacts for creepy undead eyes, and that dress from “Out of the Woods.”

Check out the preview of Taylor’s transformation for yourself:

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Now all you need is your own girl squad dressing up as every other version of Taylor, past and present: a quick roll call could definitely include “Teardrops On My Guitar” Taylor, Laying-in-a-Tub-Filled-With-Diamonds Taylor, and Snake Queen Taylor. (So many options.)

There’s no telling if we’ll see more of scary Taylor in her upcoming videos. If her recent AT&T commercial is any barometer, her cat-loving, cookie-dough-eating self is still very much alive and well. And her latest song, “Ready For It,” is definitely less dark than “LWYMMD.” That being said, we’re pretty sure we’ll see some symbolism-filled new looks from the new Taylor, too.

But it seems like we can work with the Taylors we’ve got for Halloween, anyway: T. Swift’s latest album, Reputation, isn’t set to drop until November 10.

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