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The soundtrack to a movie about singing animated animals was bound to be weird. We didn't think it would be, like, "Reese Witherspoon singing a 2014 Taylor Swift song with Nick Kroll" weird.
Yes, indeed, Witherspoon and Kroll, who play two pig performers in Sing, tackle "Shake it Off" for the film's soundtrack. At first, it's upbeat and bouncy, much like Swift's version, but about midway through ...it might be EDM?
Does anyone feel comfortable breaking out their pacifiers and raving to this?

LOS ANGELES — Team Wings received a Guinness World Record on Friday after scoring the biggest winnings for a single esports event: $9,139,002 for the Dota 2 International 2016 championship.
Winning the Seattle summer tournament secured them almost half the record-breaking $20,000,000 prize pool — further proof that esports is well on its way to becoming a billion dollar industry.

 
Dota 2
used a crowdfunding method of growing the prize from its original $1,600,000, which is funded by Valve. The game developer offers a "Battle Pass" as in-game downloadable content in Dota 2, which can cost nearly $30, a quarter of which goes to the prize pool. Valve has been using this method since 2013 and has raised a grand total of $52,468,328 across various Dota tournaments.
This isn't the first time Dota has made it in the Guinness World Record book; the game had a two page spread in 2014 for most monthly users with 3 million.
You can watch Wings Gaming in their next Dota 2 tournament, The Boston Major, happening December 7-10. The total prize for that tourney is $3,000,000.

For a brief moment, there was a man on stage during the kickoff show for Fifth Harmony's 7/27 tour on Coney Island in New York City.
He kicked a few beach balls that had made their way onto the stage back into the crowd, and quickly disappeared into the night, barely registering in the thunderous roar of girl power.
In the crowd, girls in their brand new, baby pink tour baseball caps witnessed the reemergence of the pop girl group as an unstoppable force of empowerment.
The group's 2016 hit, "Work From Home," was the first song from a girl group to crack the Billboard top ten in eight years, but before all that came plenty of humiliation. Yes, Dinah-Jane Hansen was a shark in The Little Mermaid, and it's possible to screw up that minor of a role.
Ahead of their gig headlining VH1's Save the Music benefit show on August 27, Mashable caught up with 5H to talk about some of their favorite pre-fame moments on stage. The girls were all quick to laugh at their earliest screw ups — and a few that aren't so far in the distant past. We now know you can absolutely pee on the X-Factor stage and go on to be nominated for a VMA.


Ally Brooke:
 I was in a talent show when I was in elementary school, and one of my songs was "What Dreams are Made Of" from The Lizzie McGuire Movie. I was so excited. I was killing it and getting a great crowd response, and the end of my performance, I had glitter ready in my hand, so when the song ended, I would be like, bam. But the glitter just fell. It’s on home video somewhere. It was fun, though, you get to do what you love and you have your friends and family support you out there, and I think that’s an important thing to provide for kids.


Normani Hamilton: I’ve been dancing since I was three, so I was like a competition kid, and I was doing my first solo on my birthday. My mom had begged my dance teacher to let me do a solo, since I had always been in group numbers. But I wanted the opportunity to be on stage by myself and showcase what I could do, so for my first dance competition, my grandma made my costume. I was set. I practiced but I got so nervous before I went on stage that I cried. I cried before I even went out on stage. But when I went out on stage, I forgot my dance routine, so I ran offstage, asked my dance teacher, ran back on, and finished it. I actually won, because they let me do a redo.
Lauren Jaruegei:  At the talent show in my ninth grade year, I did a Lady Gaga medley, and I dressed up like her. I sang a "Poker Face" and "Speechless" mashup.
Camilla Cabello: I was in fourth grade. I was always trying to get into arts extra-curricular activities. When I was in fourth grade, I auditioned for choir, and we had to sing "America the Beautiful" in front of our teacher, and I got so nervous that I got a massive brain fart and forgot the words. A few days after, there would be a sheet of all the students that made it outside of the classroom, and I just went and looked for my name, and it wasn’t there. I didn’t make it. But in fifth grade, I auditioned again for choir and I did make it.
Another time, we were doing The Little Mermaid musical, and I got the shark. Literally my only job was to walk across stage, and I walked across the stage for the wrong part. I walked on stage, gasped, and walked off.
Dinah-Jane Hansen: When I was on X-Factor, I peed on stage. I was trying to tell the production manager backstage before I went on, “I really have to pee."
I kept telling the girls, Ally was next to me. They asked, 'Can you wait five minutes?" Twenty minutes tick by and I was like, "I need to pee." Right before the doors open, I’m waiting. I’m waiting for my pee to go away, and it started dripping down my leg, and I performed live with pee on my legs. No one noticed!

In less than 50 days, Harry Potter makes his first foray from page and screen to stage, inHarry Potter and the Cursed Child, the two-part play set to open in London. As the cast begins rehearsing everything from duels to diction, J.K. Rowling visited the theater to see how her magical story lives on.

The song was also originally titled "People on the Streets" before Bowie changed it to "Under Pressure." It was officially released in 1981. Listen to the full version below:

IMAGE: SHOWTIME

This recap contains spoilers from this week's episode of Game of Thrones. Don't read unless you're all caught up, and don't say we didn't we warn you.

Trial by combat

Electronic music producer Deadmau5, who is known for wearing a costume mouse head during performances, recently set the headpiece aside for a Skype chat with Mash.

1. He just launched a 'no bullshit' website for fans

2. A lover of Nyan Cat, he wants to do this to a Ferrari

3. He bought a 3D printer to make things like this

4. He's 'pro-responsibility' when it comes to drugs

Fast and Furious 7 will arrive in theaters on April 10, 2015, actor Vin Diesel announced on Facebook. Filming for the movie, which was originally slated to premiere in July 2014, was recently put on hold indefinitely after Paul Walker died in a car crash on Nov. 30.

Right now, all of us at Universal are dedicated to providing support to Paul's immediate family and our extended Fast & Furious family of cast, crew and filmmakers. At this time we feel it is our responsibility to shut down production on Fast & Furious 7 for a period of time so we can assess all options available to move forward with the franchise. We are committed to keeping Fast & Furious fans informed, and we will provide further information to them when we have it. Until then, we know they join us in mourning the passing of our dear friend Paul Walker.

A Syrian girl walks next to the debris of her house, after it was targeted by a missile, in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib on July 18. More than 100,000 people died in the conflict that started in 2011, which morphed from a popular movement for change into an insurgency after the regime unleashed a brutal crackdown on dissent.Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, with their newborn son, speaking to the media before departing the Lindo Wing of St. Mary's Hospital on July 23 in London, England.Supporters release balloons during a pre-election rally for the ruling Cambodian People's Party, on July 26 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.Ultra-Orthodox Jewish children play in a fountain at a park on July 31 outside Jerusalem's old city in Israel.
Ariel Castro pleads to Judge Michael Russo during his sentencing on Aug. 1 in Cleveland, Ohio. Castro was sentenced to life without parole, plus 1,000 years for abducting three women between 2002 and 2004 when they were between the ages of 14 and 21 years old. Castro told Judge Michael Russo, "I'm not a monster, I'm sick... I'm a happy person inside."
A balloon is inflated at the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta at the Ashton Court estate on Aug. 9 in Bristol, England.
A long-exposure image shows a Perseid meteor streaking across the night sky over St. Loan Medieval Church near the village of Potsurnentsi, late on Aug. 12. The Perseid meteor shower occurs every year in August when the Earth passes through the debris and dust of the Swift-Tuttle comet.Japan marks the 68th anniversary of the end of World War II in Asia as people release doves to pay their respects to the war dead during a ceremony at the Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 15 in Tokyo, Japan.South African Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius appears at the Magistrate Court in Pretoria on Aug. 19. Pistorius appeared on charges of murdering his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Feb. 14 -- Valentine's Day.
A firefighter tries to extinguish a wildfire in Talhadas near Oliveira de Frades, central Portugal, on Aug. 26.
A man competes during the 10000 Volt obstacle during the Tough Viking race on Sept. 1 in Stockholm. The Tough Viking race consists of a 12-kilometer course filled with 15 brutal obstacles (barbed wire, mud, ice, water, tunnels, electricity, fire, climbing, etc.) designed by specialists in the Swedish Armed Forces.Residents of Male, the capital of Maldives, use mopeds to drive past a popular night spot of the city on Sept. 4. The island city is home to about 120,000, and mopeds are the most popular mode of transportation in the streets of the very small, crowded city.Residents of Olympic bid city Tokyo celebrate after the announcement of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games host city at Komazawa Olympic Park in Tokyo, Japan, on Sept. 8.