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Meghan Trainor
Meghan Trainor

"Made You Look" is a song by American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor (pictured) from her fifth major-label studio album, Takin' It Back (2022). Trainor wrote the song with Sean Douglas and its producer, Federico Vindver. Epic Records released it as the album's second single on October 31, 2022. A doo-wop song, "Made You Look" was inspired by Trainor's body image insecurities and encourages listeners to embrace their natural beauty. Critics called it flirtatious and compared it to Trainor's past songs. Its dance challenge trended on TikTok. In the US, it peaked at number 11, becoming Trainor's first top-20 single since "Me Too" (2016). It reached the top 10 in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, the UK, and Vietnam. Its colorful music video features cameos by social media influencers. Trainor performed the song on television shows such as Today and The Tonight Show. (This article is part of two featured topics: Takin' It Back and Meghan Trainor's Billboard Hot 100 entries.)

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A Boy with a Flying Squirrel

A Boy with a Flying Squirrel is a 1765 painting by the American-born painter John Singleton Copley. It depicts Copley's half-brother Henry Pelham with a pet flying squirrel, a creature commonly found in colonial American portraits as a symbol of the sitter's refinement. Painted while Copley was a Boston-based portraitist aspiring to be recognized by his European contemporaries, the work was taken to London for a 1766 exhibition, where it was met with overall praise from artists like Joshua Reynolds, who nonetheless criticized Copley's minuteness. Later historians and critics assessed the painting as a pivotal work in both Copley's career and the history of American art. It has previously been exhibited at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and is now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Painting credit: John Singleton Copley

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