Turning Red TikTok Recreates Miriam, Priya, and Abby Song In Live-Action
A video posted to TikTok featuring a group of three friends recreating an iconic scene from Turning Redhas gone viral. Turning Red, Pixar's latest animated feature, follows a thirteen-year-old Chinese-Canadian girl named Mei (Rosalie Chiang) navigating her relationship with herself, her family, and her friends. One morning, Mei wakes up and discovers that she turns into a red panda when she becomes emotional, which turns her life upside down. The panda serves as a brilliant metaphor for puberty and all the complex feelings of growing up. It was the first feature-length Pixar film directed solely by a woman, Domee Shi.
Turning Redhas been widely celebrated for its fun and moving story, unique animation style, and catchy original music. The movie features a fictional boy band called 4*Town, inspired by early 2000s bands like *NSYNC and K-pop groups like BIGBANG. The songs for 4*Town were written by Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O'Connell, who studied boyband music to create the 4*Town sound. In the movie, best friends Mei, Priya, Miriam, and Abby share a deep love for the band, calling themselves 4*Townies.
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In the viral TikTok from @cc_evans00, a group of three friends, dressed up like Miriam, Priya, and Abby, re-enact a touching scene in the movie. As Mei comes to terms with her panda, she feels upset and terrified, worried that something is wrong with her for being this way. Her friends cheer her up by singing one of her favorite 4*Town songs, «Nobody Like U,» and Mei starts to feel better. The people in the TikTok nailed every detail of the original scene in their video — from Priya's deadpan expression to Abby's all-purple outfit to
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