According to Rodgers, the verses were mostly verbatim based on how Greenberg described Sister Sledge to them when first commissioning the work.[7] Rodgers/Edwards then simply walked immediately to the studio, rearranged their notes from the meeting into lyrics, and wrote a song melody underneath them.[7] The chorus (and therefore the title) makes reference to the fact that the group are the four sisters of a family.[7]
We Are Family
We Are Family is a 2010 Indian family drama film directed by Siddharth Malhotra and produced by Hiroo Yash Johar and Karan Johar under Dharma Productions, with Sony Pictures Entertainment and UTV Motion Pictures handling the distribution rights.[1] The film features Kajol, Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Rampal in the lead roles, and is an official Indian adaptation of Stepmom (1998), starring Susan Sarandon, Julia Roberts and Ed Harris.[1]
Maya is a former book publisher and a perfect mother whose life revolves around her three children, Aaliya, Ankush, and Anjali. Despite being divorced from Aman, Maya has ensured that they remain a happy family unit. However, things take an unexpected turn when Aman's girlfriend, Shreya Arora, a career-oriented fashion designer with a lot to learn about children, joins the family.
When Shreya and the children go to visit Maya at the hospital, the two women have a private conversation. Shreya admits that the children need their real mother, not her. Maya bequeaths guardianship of the children to Shreya and confesses a mistake she made that almost killed Anjali. She explains to Shreya that not every mother is perfect but that she needs to keep trying. Maya tells Aman she wants to return home for Diwali as the last chance to see her house before she dies. During the festival, the children hold a special event for her, replaying the memories they had together. When they take a family photograph, Maya asks Shreya to join, as she is now family. After that, Maya died, Aman married Sherya, and she became the children's stepmother.
Ten years later, it is Aaliya's wedding and Shreya gifts her a bracelet which belonged to Maya. Shreya speaks to the family photo and says that Maya was right in that she eventually became the mom type. During the marriage rounds, Shreya looks at the sky and recalls Maya saying she had the children's yesterday while Shreya has their tomorrow, and smiles.
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Colin Pantall talks to Jonathan Ferrari from AMI about the Paris-based fashion brand's extraordinary collaboration with Magnum. He also speaks with some of the photographers and artists who made work for the group project, discussing the ideas behind their interpretation of the theme of family.
The idea that the family is not only one thing is at the heart of an ambitious traveling photographic exhibition that resulted from an inspired collaboration between Magnum Photos and AMI, the Parisian fashion brand founded in 2011 by its Creative Director, Alexandre Mattiussi.
Thirteen Magnum photographers were commissioned to make work for the project, alongside two guest artists, and when seen together in the book and traveling exhibition, they demonstrate the multiple ways in which family can be understood and represented.
Meanwhile, Alec Soth travels with his daughter Carmen, the process of making the work in the project embedding the bond between them. The role gender identity plays in family life is shown in the work of Alex Majoli. The images are accompanied by stories that detail some of the intricacies of gender identity in Albanian society. Diana, from the small mountain town of Tropojë is an example:
There are a few episodes from my childhood that contributed to the final animation. Opposite our building, on the first floor, there were family friends with three daughters. One day the parents had a fight and the mother set the apartment on fire. It scorched the building up to the seventh floor. It was a traumatic moment for me.
The reasons these portraits were made were the same as why photographs are made, to keep a record of what somebody looked like. What I decided was to play with the camera and make multiple exposures. So in the room with the Austrian royal family, I would take 15 pictures superimposed on each other, all made in-camera. The result was a kind of monster with 15 eyes and 15 mouths, but you could actually recognize the traits and the characteristics of the family.
Perhaps the most loving idea of family in the project comes from Bruce Gilden, a photographer who, together with his wife Sophie, found a sense of family and belonging in the black biker clubs of New York City.
Our understanding of what makes a family has undergone a revolution in the last few decades, from same-sex parenthood to surrogacy, donor conception, and IVF. But what has the impact been on children?
Susan Golombok is professor of family research and director of the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge, and a professorial fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. Her pioneering research on lesbian mother families, gay father families, single mothers by choice, and families created by assisted reproductive technologies has been instrumental to our understanding of both child development and social and ethical issues related to family life.
(Swiper: We really are a family! Sing it with us!)We are familyTodos mis amigos with me (Swiper: Oh, man!)We are familyGet up everybody, canta! (Boots: Yeah, sing!)We are familyTodos mis amigos with me (Boots: All my friends!) (Swiper: Yeah!)We are familyGet up everybody, sing!Dora: Everyone can see we're togetherAs we walk on by (And...)Boots: And we flap just like birds of a featherI won't tell no lie (All...)Diego: All of the people, around us, they say:Can they be that close?Backpack: Just let me state for the recordWe're giving love in a family doseDora: We are familyTodos mis amigos with me (Swiper: Sing it with us!)We are familyGet up everybody, canta! (Boots: Yeah, sing!)We are familyTodos mis amigos with me (Boots: All my friends!)We are familyGet up everybody, sing!Living life is fun and we've just begunTo get our share of this world's delights (High...)Swiper: High hopes we have for the futureAnd our goal's in sightDora and Backpack: No, we don't get upset (We...)Here's what we callBackpack: Our golden ruleAll: Have faith in you and the things you doYou won't go wrong, oh noBackpack: This is our family jewelWe are family (Dora: Yeah!)Todos mis amigos with me (Swiper: Sing it with us!)We are familyVamos o del mundo, canten!We are familyTodos mis amigos with meWe are familyGet up everybody, sing!We are family (Dora: Come on, sing with me!)Todos mis amigos with meWe are family (Dora: Yeah!)Get up everybody, sing!We are familyTodos mis amigos with meWe are familyGet up everybody, sing!
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"I'm just trying to build a positive image," he said. "I just want to build that family atmosphere and share my life examples to try to instill in these kids so they can go on to be future leaders in our community."
"Being from a divorced household, I knew that a lot of kids battle through that," he said. "There are so many distractions in this world. Firsthand, I experienced that and what it can do to a family."
The real meaning of Christmas is bringing people together in the spirit of love, hope, and joy. It's something Colts mascot, Blue, does all year long. But at Christmastime, he brings family and friends together to give back in a big way.
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