Singing stars Tori Kelly, Jessie J and
Kelsea Ballerini lend their voices to some of the most popular and
beloved melodies in the Disney songbook when the Disneyland Resort
Diamond Celebration is showcased on THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY:
DISNEYLAND 60, with Master of Ceremonies Derek Hough, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY
21 (8:00-10:00 p.m. EST), on the ABC Television Network.
Tori Kelly, 2016 Grammy nominee for Best New Artist, pairs with Kermit
the Frog for a beautiful acoustic rendition of "The Rainbow Connection"
from "The Muppet Movie." Versatile singing artist and Grammy nominee
Jessie J will sing the iconic tune "When You Wish Upon a Star" from the
classic Disney movie "Pinnochio." Country's rising female artist Kelsea
Ballerini will be showcased singing "Part of Your World" from the Disney
hit film "Little Mermaid." Young dance phenomenon Maddie Ziegler, known
to millions for her appearances on "Dance Moms," will be featured in
Ballerini's musical number, with choreography by Travis Wall.
Kelly, who will launch an extensive North American tour in April in
support of her Capitol Records' debut album, "Unbreakable Smile," marks
her evolution from Internet sensation to "It girl" - a journey which
took years of effort to achieve. The re-release of her album on January
29th includes current single "Hollow" and never-before-heard track
"Something Beautiful". Her sweet, soaring voice has garnered her over
120 million views on her Youtube channel.
Jessie J's astounding voice makes her a one-of-a-kind singing superstar.
The UK-born singer-songwriter released her "Sweet Talker"album in
October 2014 to immediate acclaim, debuting Top 10 on the Billboard 200.
It featured the blockbuster single "Bang, Bang," with Jessie J teaming
with Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj.
Ballerini launched to stardom with the release of her number one,
gold-certified single debut, "Love Me Like You Mean It," and follow-up
top ten single "Dibs" - both from her Black River Entertainment debut
album, "The First Time," which landed Top Five on the Billboard Country
Albums Chart. Proclaimed by Billboard Magazine as "Country's Next
Queen," Ballerini received their "Rising Star" award at the prestigious
2015 Women in Music event.
Ziegler became an internet sensation in part, due to her starring in Sia's hit music video
trilogy. Additionally, she has performed artistic contemporary dance
routines on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," "Dancing with the Stars," "Saturday
Night Live" and "The Grammys." She is quickly making a name for herself
as an aspiring actress with notable credits, including Freeform's
"Pretty Little Liars," "Austin & Ally" and the upcoming feature film
"The Book of Henry" opposite Naomi Watts. She also recently took home a
People's Choice Award.
Kermit the Frog, the world's most famous amphibian, has been
entertaining the planet for more than 60 years. A singer, dancer,
bestselling author and the star of many hit movies and TV shows, Kermit
currently serves as executive producer of "Up Late with Miss Piggy," as
seen in the ABC series "The Muppets."
Walt Disney's legacy lives on through the Disneyland Resort, but even he
might not have been able to imagine how big his idea would become at
Disneyland and at Disney parks that span the globe. He launched an
entirely new concept for family entertainment that remains as relevant
today as the day it opened, July 17, 1955, for guests of all ages.
The Disneyland Resort will continue its 60th Anniversary Diamond
Celebration through Summer 2016, extending the three spectacular
after-dark shows created for the special anniversary - the "Paint the
Night" parade, the immersive "Disneyland Forever" fireworks show and the
all-new "World of Color-Celebrate! The Wonderful World of Walt Disney."
The exciting celebration, which also features sparkling décor, themed
food and merchandise, will conclude on Labor Day, Monday, September 5,
2016.
"The Wonderful World of Disney: Disneyland 60" is a production of Den of Thieves (MTV Video Music Awards, American Idol, MTV
Movie Awards, Critics Choice Movie Awards, the Radio Disney Music
Awards). Jesse Ignjatovic and Evan Prager are the executive producers.
"The Wonderful World of Disney: Disneyland 60" is broadcast in 720
Progressive (720P), ABC's selected HDTV format, with 5.1 stereo surround
sound.
Thursday, 31 March 2016
Delta Goodrem v Jessie J: a catfight as contrived as the idea that women can't get along
The ‘feud’ between Delta Goodrem and Jessie J on The Voice is the cliche reality TV was built on. Aren’t we bored of the catfight confection yet?
‘If reports are to be believed, Australian “nice girl” Delta Goodrem is engaged in a a poisonous feud with her fellow Voice judge, British “nice girl” Jessie J.’ Photograph: Getty Images
If reports are to be believed, Australian “nice girl”, singer-superstar Delta Goodrem is engaged in a poisonous feud with her fellow Voice judge, British “nice girl” singer-superstar, Jessie J. “It’s real,” confirmed Channel Nine to the Sydney Morning Herald on Monday, supplying readers with incontrovertible proof of the breakdown of relations: Delta unleashing no less than a “full repertoire of death stares to her fellow judge”. This collection of icicle-eyed hate glaring is viewable in a highlights reel that Nine released to the internet, an act of selfless charity one expects from the commercial television corporation.
Since The Voice began screening scenes of a conflict unparalleled in enmity since the start of the Korean war (peace as yet undeclared, 65 years on), global entertainment media has, of course, been abuzz. Woman’s Day, News.com.au, TVNZ and the Daily Mail have all covered the story of Goodrem’s extraordinary use of the word “shit” to describe how she was feeling after a particularly long day of talent-judging. Yet statements by Goodrem suggest that the “feud” may not be all it seems. With the brazen iconoclasm of a lecturer delivering the introductory lesson to a first-year media studies course, News.com.au quoted the singer as saying, “There can be a lot of illusions with TV editing.”
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This, I think, is where a greater, more shocking entertainment scandal may yet unravel. Goodrem’s admission that reality television employs the techniques of fiction is just the beginning; stand by to learn off-the-cuff comments are prescripted, shots are done in more than one take, make up really does hide everything and that successful, professional women do not inevitably hate one another, no matter how much the conventions of cultural misogyny should like to make it appear so.
The scandal of the Jessie J-Delta Goodrem feud is not, of course, that it’s been so clumsily faked to hype their TV show that not even the protagonists want to admit to it, but that at best it’s ripping off a reality television cliche so tired that it really should be given a Horlicks, a pat and a tuck into bed.
At worst, it’s direct plagiarism of a supposed feud that similarly took place between singers Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey when they played the original feuding-women-judging-a-talent-show roles on American Idol three years ago. But these two gave their parts some Hollywood oomph, with Minaj both tweeting broadsides at Carey and allowing reports associating her with threats to have Carey shot – yes, shot, with a gun –to disseminate through the media. Amid the higher-stakes environment of the American industrial-entertainment complex, it pays to go large; the Minaj-Carey feud went prime time, big-time, and resulted in a public detente mediated by celebrity interviewer, Barbara Walters.
Goodrem either hasn’t got the interest for this kind of performance, or she’s as bored with the “catfight” confection as the rest of us. The point has been made that the other Voice judges, Ricky Martin and the Madden brothers, have not been recruited into sham skirmishing. Of course they haven’t, they’re men: if male feuding couldn’t be made cool by the Blur-Oasis sniping of the 1990s, it’s certainly not going to get an effective reboot from the Madden brothers.
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So, we are left with The Voice’s girlfight on Nine, reaching for the last stale story idea left in the cupboard to boost ratings – the ancient set-up that “the Chinese character for ‘strife’ is two women living under the same roof”. Quoted by crime novelists like Robert Wilson, dramatised in oft-studied plays like Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, it’s a cultural myth that insists no women anywhere can work or live together. Though disproved by the existence of the modern workplace, sharehousing, lesbian relationships, friendships or, you know, the family, it remains the bedrock not only of Goodrem-J and Carey-Minaj bareknuckling, but any examples of the Real Housewives franchise, any variation on The Hills, the very point of Next Top Model and at its most distilled hysteria within The Bachelor series.
Usually, the fighting is orchestrated around supposed competition for a man’s attention, which neatly flatters the notion of male supremacy as a value worth fighting for. Anyone paying attention may notice that “feuds” overwhelmingly take place between successful and beautiful women, who are rendered petty, ugly and vulgar through the behaviour demanded of public battle, and they leave the arena diminished. Language experts may notice that this supposed Chinese character for “strife” is as made up as any one-dimensional stereotype of women offered by mass media. There’s a rarely-used character for “quarrel” that, containing two women and no roof, really depends on a pre-held misogyny to pretend the experience of two people disagreeing is not universal.
Excised among the public shaming of Goodrem for “salty language” is, of course, the reality that professional women paid to do a job are as likely to get cranky if they’re still on shift at 12:30am as anyone else.
If this were true feuding, Goodrem or J would be off the set without returning and Channel Nine would be briefing the lawyers, not cutting a showreel. Of course, if reality television were anything like reality, there’d be no need to watch television. While The Voice purports and repurposes these ancient gender stereotypes, reality beckons this viewer as far superior entertainment.
‘If reports are to be believed, Australian “nice girl” Delta Goodrem is engaged in a a poisonous feud with her fellow Voice judge, British “nice girl” Jessie J.’ Photograph: Getty Images
If reports are to be believed, Australian “nice girl”, singer-superstar Delta Goodrem is engaged in a poisonous feud with her fellow Voice judge, British “nice girl” singer-superstar, Jessie J. “It’s real,” confirmed Channel Nine to the Sydney Morning Herald on Monday, supplying readers with incontrovertible proof of the breakdown of relations: Delta unleashing no less than a “full repertoire of death stares to her fellow judge”. This collection of icicle-eyed hate glaring is viewable in a highlights reel that Nine released to the internet, an act of selfless charity one expects from the commercial television corporation.
Since The Voice began screening scenes of a conflict unparalleled in enmity since the start of the Korean war (peace as yet undeclared, 65 years on), global entertainment media has, of course, been abuzz. Woman’s Day, News.com.au, TVNZ and the Daily Mail have all covered the story of Goodrem’s extraordinary use of the word “shit” to describe how she was feeling after a particularly long day of talent-judging. Yet statements by Goodrem suggest that the “feud” may not be all it seems. With the brazen iconoclasm of a lecturer delivering the introductory lesson to a first-year media studies course, News.com.au quoted the singer as saying, “There can be a lot of illusions with TV editing.”
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Read more
This, I think, is where a greater, more shocking entertainment scandal may yet unravel. Goodrem’s admission that reality television employs the techniques of fiction is just the beginning; stand by to learn off-the-cuff comments are prescripted, shots are done in more than one take, make up really does hide everything and that successful, professional women do not inevitably hate one another, no matter how much the conventions of cultural misogyny should like to make it appear so.
The scandal of the Jessie J-Delta Goodrem feud is not, of course, that it’s been so clumsily faked to hype their TV show that not even the protagonists want to admit to it, but that at best it’s ripping off a reality television cliche so tired that it really should be given a Horlicks, a pat and a tuck into bed.
At worst, it’s direct plagiarism of a supposed feud that similarly took place between singers Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey when they played the original feuding-women-judging-a-talent-show roles on American Idol three years ago. But these two gave their parts some Hollywood oomph, with Minaj both tweeting broadsides at Carey and allowing reports associating her with threats to have Carey shot – yes, shot, with a gun –to disseminate through the media. Amid the higher-stakes environment of the American industrial-entertainment complex, it pays to go large; the Minaj-Carey feud went prime time, big-time, and resulted in a public detente mediated by celebrity interviewer, Barbara Walters.
Goodrem either hasn’t got the interest for this kind of performance, or she’s as bored with the “catfight” confection as the rest of us. The point has been made that the other Voice judges, Ricky Martin and the Madden brothers, have not been recruited into sham skirmishing. Of course they haven’t, they’re men: if male feuding couldn’t be made cool by the Blur-Oasis sniping of the 1990s, it’s certainly not going to get an effective reboot from the Madden brothers.
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Eleanor Robertson
Read more
So, we are left with The Voice’s girlfight on Nine, reaching for the last stale story idea left in the cupboard to boost ratings – the ancient set-up that “the Chinese character for ‘strife’ is two women living under the same roof”. Quoted by crime novelists like Robert Wilson, dramatised in oft-studied plays like Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, it’s a cultural myth that insists no women anywhere can work or live together. Though disproved by the existence of the modern workplace, sharehousing, lesbian relationships, friendships or, you know, the family, it remains the bedrock not only of Goodrem-J and Carey-Minaj bareknuckling, but any examples of the Real Housewives franchise, any variation on The Hills, the very point of Next Top Model and at its most distilled hysteria within The Bachelor series.
Usually, the fighting is orchestrated around supposed competition for a man’s attention, which neatly flatters the notion of male supremacy as a value worth fighting for. Anyone paying attention may notice that “feuds” overwhelmingly take place between successful and beautiful women, who are rendered petty, ugly and vulgar through the behaviour demanded of public battle, and they leave the arena diminished. Language experts may notice that this supposed Chinese character for “strife” is as made up as any one-dimensional stereotype of women offered by mass media. There’s a rarely-used character for “quarrel” that, containing two women and no roof, really depends on a pre-held misogyny to pretend the experience of two people disagreeing is not universal.
Excised among the public shaming of Goodrem for “salty language” is, of course, the reality that professional women paid to do a job are as likely to get cranky if they’re still on shift at 12:30am as anyone else.
If this were true feuding, Goodrem or J would be off the set without returning and Channel Nine would be briefing the lawyers, not cutting a showreel. Of course, if reality television were anything like reality, there’d be no need to watch television. While The Voice purports and repurposes these ancient gender stereotypes, reality beckons this viewer as far superior entertainment.
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