Azealia Banks – Ice Princess

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Azealia Banks follows up her recent Wallace online interactive music video with this even crazier creation for her new single Ice PrincessDirected by We Were Monkeys, the video takes us to an icy underworld where Azealia reigns as a Medusa Ice Queen (or Princess) and leads her CGI army of robot ice warriors into an explosive kaleidoscopic volcano. All whilst riding a giant silver snake. Now if that’s not crazy, I don’t know what is.

As per usual, Banks and her production team have upped the game out there. Artists are going to have to start getting seriously creative if they want to stand out against her wacky visuals.

Her fans are embracing the madness and have taken to her YouTube channel to express their views in the comments section of the new video. One popular opinion states: “I thought it was absolutely dope. Retro vibes. Missy Elliot vibes but I also got some rock / animation too. People are way too focused on what’s “current”.. maybe she didn’t want that, stop being negative toward any artist that shows individual expression. Thats the point. Yal are so lost in the sauce. Good work!”

The rap / hip hop track is taken from her debut album Broke With Expensive Taste which was released late last year.

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Megan Nicole –­ Escape

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Megan Nicole’s latest production Escape and accompanying video was presented via the 2015 YouTube Music Awards. Directed by Young Astronauts, it follows her in princess-like dresses as she escapes to the enchanted forests and waterfalls in some beautiful countryside. It get’s very Snow White and Cinderella-ish when the woodland creatures start befriending her – wolves, grizzly bears, birds and bunny rabbits alike.

Megan comments “I got to work with a great team of people and a bunch of amazing and cute critters! Hope you like it :)”

The video has gained almost 3 million views since it’s launch last week and her online fan base are in love with the Disney, magical feel to her new sound and visuals. So are we! The song is the title track from her debut album Escape, which was released last October and is available on iTunes.

Megan posted her very first video to YouTube in 2009 and she now has over 3 million subscribers – check out her channel here.

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Fifth Harmony – Worth It ft. Kid Ink

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Fifth Harmony have premiered their latest music video for Worth It in honour of Saturday Night’s Kids’ Choice Awards in which they took home the award for Favourite New Artist. The girls sure know how to rock the stage. Watch them flaunt their sexuality in killer outfits whilst being a BOSS in the workplace.

The song, featuring Kid Ink is from their debut album Reflection, which was released late January 2015 and peaked at N°5 on the US Billboard 200 Chart. The 5 X Factor USA finalists keep bringing the heat, and with more collaborations like this one they’ll be getting N°1 hits in no time.

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Will Young – Love Revolution

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Will Young’s got a new single out, and soon to have a new album out too. Love Revolution was premiered on Chris Evans’ BBC 2 radio show at the weekend, and though the sound is happy clappy, the lyrics are deep and introspective. The soul searching track samples Tomcraft’s 2003 dance anthem Loneliness. It’s great to be hearing it again!

Young’s anticipated forthcoming album 85% Proof is due out May 25 and will make it his 6th studio collection. All of his previous albums have been certified platinum or higher, and he is considered one of the most successful male artists from a reality competition in the UK.

Chart Facts: Will Young has scored 13 UK Top 40 singles with Anything Is Possible/Evergreen, Light My Fire, The Long And Winding Road/Suspicious Minds (with Gareth Gates), and Leave Right Now hitting Nº1.

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Snakehips – Forever (Pt. II)
ft. Kaleem Taylor

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About two years ago London producers James David and Ollie Dickinson, aka Snakehips, released an excellent instrumental called Forever. They’ve now turned it into a full-length song with the help of the smooth, soulful vocals of Kaleem Taylor. The sun-soaked, soulful vibes of Forever (Pt. II) sounds like a summer hit to us.

Snakehips have been gaining plenty of attention recently with their smooth contemporary house sounds and their most recent release – the exquisite Forever Pt. II EP is outstanding. It features four tracks – I’m Gone featuring Syd from The Internet, an uptempo R&B track Overtime featuring Sasha Keable, a ballad Poison featuring the amazing Daniella T.A.O.L and this summer-is-here-already track Forever (Pt. II).

Snakehips are taking their brand of electro-soul on a North American tour which starts on May 20 in Denver and finishes on June 27 in Washington.

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LunchMoney Lewis – Bills

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LunchMoney Lewis recently released his video for his debut single Bills, and it’s pretty true to life and hilarious. Though be warned, once you listen to it you won’t be able to get it out of your head! It’s already gone to Nº1 in Australia and has amassed 2 million views on YouTube since it’s release just a month ago.

The video takes a light hearted approach to the usual struggles most of us face in our daily life, and the upbeat track is a constant quick tempo to which we need to get shit done. Literally. By the end of it all he’s yelping in a neck-deep pile of bills, responsibilities and eviction notices. You can’t help but laugh, and it’s the perfect song to keep you going when you’re ready to tap out.

Lewis came up in the scene after he was featured on Nicki Minaj’s sexy dance track Trini Dem Girls off her latest album The Pinkprint. He also co-wrote Burnin’ Up for Jessie J and Bo$$ for Fifth Harmony. We expect and hope to be seeing a lot more of him this year, we’re rooting for you Lewis! You’ve got mouths to feed after all.

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Happy Birthday Diana Ross!

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Happy Birthday to Motown legend, Diana Ross! Today takes her into her 71st year of life, and she has so much to reflect back on. From being a member of The Supremes in the swinging 60s to winning a golden globe for her role as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues. For our #ThrowbackThursday today we are going Upside Down, one of her 18 US Nº1 hits.

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Ross is one of the most successful female singers of all time, and has been entertaining the world for over four decades! Helping pave the way for black female singers in the industry back then and today, she still continues to perform internationally to sold-out concerts all over the world. Singing is her passion and she doesn’t plan on giving up on it anytime soon!

Diana Ross

Fun facts you may not have known about the legend herself:

– Her 3- girl band The Supremes carries the record of scoring 12 number-one hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100 back when they were in their prime.

– In Britain, Diana Ross was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as being “The Most Successful Female Artist of All Time” – with over 70 hit singles to date.

– Mother Ross has five very successful children. Three daughters named Tracee, Rhoda and Chudney and two sons named Ross and Evan.

– She has her very own playground in New York. The ”Diana Ross Playground” at 81st Street & Central Park West.

– She worked as a secretary for Motown Records CEO Berry Gordy Jr. while her records were being marketed in the 1960s.

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– Back in 1999 she was arrested for grabbing an airport security guard’s breast, whom she claimed touched her breasts’ while being frisked. Well, tit for tatt that’s the spirit!

– In 1983 she introduced a line of pantyhose named “Diana Ross Ultra Sheers”

– She has two stars on the Hollywood walk of fame, one for her work with The Supremes and one for her solo career.

– She is the most successful female recording artist ever with 18 US Nº1 hits and 70 top 10 hits, since 1964

– Received the Lifetime Achievement Award from MIDEM in 1994

– Billboard Magazine named her Female Entertainer of The Century.


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Nicky Jam & Enrique Iglesias
El Perdón

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Enrique Iglesias and Nicky Jam have released their new music video for El Perdón via the 2015 YouTube Music Awards. Directed by Jonathan Craven and Darren Craig, the urban visuals take us into the streets of South America, the land of passion.

The duet holds the Nº1 spot on the Billboard’s Hot Latin Tracks Chart, and Enrique has broken his own record for “Most Number Ones” on the respective chart.

Everybody is going crazy for this track, especially after the song went viral when Brazilian soccer players Neymar and Dani Alves with the Futbol Club Barcelona, posted a video of them singing along to the tune. Iglesias was quick to repost the images of the singing soccer stars up on his social media pages.

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Martin Garrix feat. Usher
Don’t Look Down

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Usher hits the studio again, this time with 18 year old Martin Garrix, best known for his 2013 hit track Animals. The cute duo have collaborated for an awesome new summer jam Don’t Look Down.

The song is taken from Martin’s upcoming debut album ‘+X’ which is expected to be released later this year, although an official date has not yet been confirmed.

The newly released video was launched via the 2015 YouTube Music Awards and features a sneaky appearance by actor Balthazar Getty.

Video director Petros, takes us through the adventures of working pool-side in the steamy summer months. It really is a fun little production, unpredictable and complete with dancing on water and sea horse floaties that come to life!

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Jason Derulo – Want To Want Me

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Jason Derulo just released Want To Want Me, his latest single to date with a steamy video to go with it. This was no ordinary song release though, it was debuted in a rather interesting way.

“I wanted to find a new unique way to launch my video,” Jason stated in a press release.

“I know my fans are tapped into social networking so what better way to launch my video for Want To Want Me than through one of the fastest rising social networking apps, Tinder. I see this app as the wave of the future. I know my fans will swipe right.’’

It was a good move on his behalf, as he is now getting tonnes of media buzz reporting about how he was the first to ever think of releasing a video this way. Damn it… now we wish we had the app (even though we’re not looking for a date…)!

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Charli XCX – Famous

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Charli XCX was another huge name to release new material for the 2015 YouTube Music Awards which were presented and uploaded yesterday to YouTube in a lengthy playlist. Her addition to the huge melting pot of talent was a creepy music video for her song Famous. Charli teamed up with Eric Wareheim of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! fame for a truly terrifying, darkly comic visual.

The video is hard to sanely describe, a trippy social media take of the underworld in a nutshell… we think. It’s a seriously bewildering production to say the least, and leaves us with just one nagging question. What just happened?

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Charli was one of the breakout artists of 2014, and earned her YouTube Music Award on the strength of music videos for Sucker singles Boom Clap, Break the Rules and her collaboration with Iggy Azalea for Fancy.

See the 2015 YouTube Music Awards in full below.


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Ed Sheeran & Rudimental – Bloodstream

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Ed Sheeran and Rudiemntal premiered a cinematic new video for Bloodstream, specially for the 2015 YouTube Music Awards which were presented yesterday (March 23). The song features the English four-membered band Rudimental, who seem to be collaborating with all the greats lately.

The gripping music video, directed by Emil Nava, follows the Goodfellas actor Ray Liotta as he plays a drunken, washed-up frontman of fictional hair-metal group Black Glove. He appears to have it all—money, lots of awards, fame, big house and women—but he’s still miserable and lonely. He tries to drown his pain with alcohol and lots of sex, but it’s not enough…

We’ve gotta say, Ed Sheeran is really going from good to great with each new release, and to think it all started with a YouTube upload.

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The 2015 YouTube Music Awards are presented below in full. You’ll find a ‘behind the scenes’ clip in this playlist, in which you can see the making of Bloodstream.


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CHIC ft Nile Rodgers – I’ll Be There

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Nile Rodgers chose the vernal equinox (March 20) to premiere his new music video for the first new Chic single in 23 years – I’ll Be There. The timing of the release with the equinox was to signify the rebirth of the Chic Organisation. The single is the first cut to be lifted from their forthcoming album It’s About Time – the first Chic album since 1992’s Chic-ism. The album is due for release later this year and could feature collaborations with Miley Cyrus, Sir Elton John and Janelle Monae.

The idea for the album came to being in 2010 when Rodgers found a box of tapes with unfinished Chic material featuring vocals from the late Edwards and Luther Vandross, among others. After listening to it all it gave Rodgers the inspiration to finish the material. However, a few months later he learned he had prostrate cancer – putting the album’s theme of ‘time’ into sharp perspective.

Now, cancer-free, Rodgers said: “I’ve always had a lot to say, but it’s always worked best when I say it through music. So when I thought about where I was at this point in my life, all I kept thinking about was time.”

I’ll Be There is a collaboration with house duo The Martinez Brothers – it’s a classic disco-funk sound, utilizing a four-on-the-floor groove, soulful harmonies and Rodgers’ amazing rhythm guitar.

The song is a tribute to late Chic founder Bernard Edwards, who passed away back in 1996. “When I found my partner Bernard’s body in the room, I said, ‘Now I can be there for you in death the way you were there for me in life’,” Rodgers recently told Digital Spy.

The Inez & Vindooh-directed music video features supermodel Karlie Kloss and some wonderful vintage footage of Chic performing on Soul Train.

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Jennifer Lopez – Feel The Light

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J.LO is a space-goddess in her newest music video Feel The Light. Directed by Hype Williams it is jam-packed with snippets from the movie Home which the song was created for.

The 3D animated feature film, directed by Tim Johnson and produced by DreamWorks, is based on Adam Rex’s children’s books The True Meaning of Smekday. In a nutshell, a well-intended alien race named Boov come down to our earth in hopes of hiding from their mortal enemy. They start relocating us to a Desert Planet, thinking they are doing us a favour. The real fun adventure begins when a teenage girl (voice by Rihanna), manages to avoid being captured. She’s on the run, and searching for her Mother (voice by Jennifer Lopez). Along the way she happens upon a banished alien who has accidentally notified his people’s enemies of their whereabouts.

There’s an amazing voice over cast including Steve Martin, who plays Captain Smek, the leader of the Boov race. Jim Parsons who plays Oh, the banished Boov and Matt L. Jones as one of the other Boovs. The whole production seems pretty amazing and Barack Obama even visited the DreamWorks studios during the making of the film, and met with Steve and Jim who were recording lines at the time.

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If you haven’t seen the latest trailer for Home, here it is: (tap here to open in Creation 5)


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M.O – Preach

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M.O are coming out with a debut album May 3, and they have released a taster of what’s to come with their latest song Preach.  Their vocals are honey smooth and they moves are free and sensual – the whole video is jam packed with positive vibes.

The British up-and-coming trio consisting of Annie, Frankee and Nadine are taking us for a trip down memory lane to the 90s (the girl group galore era) with their style, lyrics and R&B beats. Nothing throws us further back into the 90s than baggy double denim and white sneakers, but we are really loving it!

Group member Annie tells online news source Digital Spy “We grew up on 90s R&B and garage, and that’s the music we want to put back out there.’’ Nadine added: “We’ve been waiting for it to come back around and it hasn’t, so we’ve decided to do it ourselves!”

The girls described the song and video to Fader: “Uplifting, we were trying to tell people to stay true to themselves, not to get caught up in anyone else’s game and never settle for something you don’t feel 100% about! That’s what we were trying to put out there – other people might be fine with being satisfied – it’s like saying ‘things are ok…’ we want and need to feel more!”

Nicely done girls! That’s all we have to say, and we wait in anticipation for the release of more material.

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Snoop Dogg – Peaches N Cream

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Snoop Dogg’s latest release is definitely interesting. Peaches N Cream featuring Pharrell Williams and Charlie Wilson takes you to a land we could only describe as ‘wake and bake.’ You’ve got to be some kind of high to write that song, collaborate on it and create the video concept. The visual directors Aramis Israel and Hannah Lux Davis, captured the song’s vibe dramatically, creating a psychedelic adventure with the help of lots of neons and a wild imagination.

Despite its strangeness, we’re totally digging the Snoop Doggy Dogg original style. There are musical and lyrical undertones in this song which correlate to all of his past material and is unquestionable to his uniqueness. That’s what draws you in and makes it so likeable. If you are a long time fan of Snoop, then you’re definitely going to love this track.

Remember these days? Snoop & Pharrell collaborating 13 years ago in their song Beautiful from 2002!

Snoop Dogg ft. Pharrell – Beautiful

Then in 2004 they come out with 2 hugely successful gems Drop It Like It’s Hot and Let’s Get Blown.

Snoop Dogg ft. Pharrell – Drop It Like It’s Hot

Snoop Dogg ft. Pharrell – Let’s Get Blown

Fast forwarding back to 2015 where Snoop’s new album Bush is set to be released May 12. The album contains yet another collab with his buddy Pharrell titled Roll My Shit. Appropriately. Snoop has described this new album as having a ‘Funkadelic Glow’ and we couldn’t think of a better description!

Snoop Dogg ft. Pharrell – Roll My Shit

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The Pointer Sisters – I’m So Excited

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The Pointer Sisters won three Grammy Awards and had 13 US top 20 hits between 1973 and 1985. They received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994. Spanning over three decades, their repertoire has included such diverse genres as pop, disco, jazz, electronic music, bebop, blues, soul, funk, dance, country and rock.

Im So Excited, originally released in 1982 and then re-released in 1984 is considered to be the group’s signature song. It originally appeared on the Sisters’ 1982 album So Excited! and was subsequently released as a single. Two years later a slightly remixed and edited version appeared on the multi-platinum album Break Out.

In 2001, the song was included in the RIAA and National Endowment for the Arts project Songs of the Century, a list intended to “promote a better understanding of America’s musical and cultural heritage.” The song was ranked #264 out of 365 songs.

The song has been covered by many artists, too numerous to mention and most recently it was covered by the cast of Glee in the season 6 episode ‘A Wedding’.

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Of Monsters and Men – Crystals

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The unique Icelandic group Of Monsters and Men are back on the scene with their latest single Crystals. The lyric video, directed by Tjarnargatan, lets us take a front row seat to the passions of life, love and tribulation seen through the eyes of a gruff old man; told to us by his expressions in a black and white empty landscape.

It’s such a simple concept for a video, but really quite genius, when you realise how strongly the audience connects to what they are seeing, hearing and reading. It’s such a great combination to accompany such a meaningful song.

Crystals is taken from the groups forthcoming album Beneath the Skin, set to be released June 8 via Universal Music. In addition they will be releasing a deluxe version featuring two other brand new songs as well as a Grizzly Bear remix of their album track Black Water. That’s the one we’ll be getting as soon it comes out, for sure. Love us a bit of deluxe!

Beneath the Skin Tracklist
1. ‘Crystals’
2. ‘Human’
3. ‘Hunger’
4. ‘Wolves Without Teeth’
5. ‘Empire’
6. ‘Slow Life’
7. ‘Organs’
8. ‘Black Water’
9. ‘Thousand Eyes’
10. ‘I of the Storm’
11. ‘We Sink’

Deluxe Edition
12. ‘Backyard’
13. ‘Winter Sound’
14. ‘Black Water (Chris Taylor Of Grizzly Bear Remix)’

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Meghan Trainor – Dear Future Husband

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Meghan Trainor has released a new music video for her most recent single Dear Future Husband, lifted from her highly successful debut studio album Title. 

The video is theatrical, colourful, playful and backed by a barbershop quartet. Directed by Revon Yousif the bright visuals are consistent with that Doo-Wop retro charm that we have come to associate with Trainor. She’s also looking better than ever in her high waisted patent skirts.

The song is basically a dear diary letter, that she’s hoping her future husband will read, or in this case hear.
”Dear future husband,
Here’s a few things
You’ll need to know if you wanna be
My one and only all my life’’

That’s the intro to the song as well as the beginning of the chorus. In our opinion, there isn’t a request we don’t agree with,

”You got that 9 to 5
 But, baby, so do I
, So don’t be thinking I’ll be home and baking apple pies.” 

Sounds fair enough, right?

Trainor will perform at the 2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards later this month along with the likes of Madonna, Rihanna and Sam Smith. She then embarks on a headline UK tour next month, which includes a night at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire. The North American MTrain Tour kicks off on July 3 in Atlantic City.

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Rae Sremmurd – Throw Sum Mo
ft. Nicki Minaj, Young Thug

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Rae Sremmurd’s latest collaboration Throw Sum Mo with Nicki Minaj and Young Thug is just as we expected. With the song being about throwing money at strippers, getting more money, and then throwing larger dollar bills at them, they managed to come up with a simple video concept. I bet you can guess it.

Everybody wins, the strippers love it, the rich horny young rappers/ thugs get to put their overflowing income to good use, and Nicki Minaj gets to parade her massive tits around the joint whilst all this is taking place. Oh and of course she’s spitting sick versus, but if she wasn’t it would just be really out of place.

Strippers on rollerblades. Strippers. On. Rollerblades.

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Ellen and Michelle Obama
Break It Down

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We have a sneaky suspicion there’s never a dull moment in the White House ever since Obama’s election. Recently, the US First Lady, Michelle Obama, appeared on the Ellen Degeneres show to mark the 5th anniversary of her ‘Let’s Move’ initiative, aimed to inspire people to get active and have fun doing it. Michelle and Ellen have a chat first and then break into a fantastic dance routine. (If you prefer to get straight to the dancing, rather than hear them chat first, fast forward to 3:13)

Whilst on the show, Michelle revealed that as part of her campaign, there will be a dance routine on the front lawn of the White house on April 6, during the annual Easter Egg Roll. The dancers will be a host of helpers from the popular reality TV show So You Think You Can Dance. Of course, they will be getting jiggy to the tune of Uptown Funk by Bruno Mars.

During her airtime with Ellen, Michelle stated: “We’re asking folks all across the country to #GimmeFive ways they are leading a healthy life, Beyonce gave me five, and Ryan Seacrest and Nick Jonas and even the astronauts on the space shuttle, the International Space Shuttle, got involved.”

One of our five has got to be listen to more happy music at C5! (Which leads to dancing… and then fitness ensues.) 🙂 There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them!

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