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  Hairspray Movie Recap This movie takes place in Baltimore 1962. We meet our protagonist Tracy Trunblad and not even two minutes into this movie, we get a musical number. As she’s getting engaged with this musical number we get some questionable scenes in Baltimore, like rats dancing around the city, encountering a serial flasher, a bum on the ballroom stool. Telling me about Baltimore makes me not want to go to the city. While she cuts into a dance number, she misses the school bus and has to take a garbage truck to school. As the school day goes by, she waits to the end of the day so she can rush home and watch her favorite show The Corny Collins Show. We also meet Penny Lou (played by Amanda Bynes, one of her final roles before going insane). While watching the Corny Collins Show we meet Tracy’s mother Edna played by John Travolta. I know what you are thinking, why is a man playing a woman here? The original Broadway play and the 1988 movie had a man in drag playing the mother ...

  Welcome back everyone, today we are going to continue to review Mariah’s catalog and we are going to review the only album I haven’t reviewed of hers, her thirteenth album Merry Christmas II You. This was Mariah’s second holiday album, and the obvious sequel to 1994 Merry Christmas. Some people call this the pregnant album, as she had not one but two cakes in the oven baking while recording this project (that’s what hanging with Nick Cannon would get you). Anyway, her second holiday album, does it live up to the status of the original? Stay tuned to find out                        Mariah Carey “Merry Christmas II You” 1.        Santa Claus is Coming to Town (intro) (N/A) 2.        Oh Santa: The most recognizable song of the from this era. It always confused me on why this wasn’t a holiday staple and listening to this, I understand why. The song c...