Melati and Isabel Wijsen were swimming in the waters of Bali when they noticed something that didn’t belong: floating plastic bags. “For the older fans, I hope that NCT Dream could be a group that helps them reminisce and look back on their younger selves,” Haechan says. The group’s title tracks have followed a narrative of the stages of adolescence, transitioning from innocence to rebellion-and growth. “More than just putting on a performance with great visuals and choreography, we really want our music to be a reflection of the thoughts and struggles that teens our age go through,” Mark tells TIME. A big part of the group’s appeal is that they connect with teenagers, as teenagers. Together, Mark, Renjun, Jeno, Haechan, Jaemin, Chenle and Jisung made headlines this year when their mini-album, “We Go Up,” peaked at #5 on Billboard’s World Albums chart and topped iTunes Albums charts in 15 countries. But the group boasts a special feature: It consists only of members below the age of 20, as it’s fashioned as the youth subunit of umbrella group NCT. With their synchronized choreography, bold aesthetic and dynamic performances bridging rap and song, seven-member K-pop group NCT Dream may appear similar to other rising boy bands from South Korea. ![]() “Instead of worrying about the future, you should try to change it while you still can.” - Suyin Haynes In October, she took her message to a crowd of more than 10,000 at a climate change demonstration in Helsinki. She plans to strike every Friday until Sweden is aligned with the Paris Agreement on climate change while the Scandinavian country is one of only a handful in Europe actively pursuing policies to meet the climate goals, Thunberg says it is not enough. Secretary General at the COP24 climate summit in Poland. ![]() She has also been nominated for an international prize for her activism and recently met with the U.N. “I cannot vote, so this is a way that I can make my voice heard.” Since then, Thunberg has inspired hundreds of similar school strikes around the world, including a mass school walkout in Australia. ![]() “I thought that nothing is happening and no one is doing anything - it is my moral duty to do what I can,” she tells TIME of her mission. “Just don’t act like me.” - Eliza Bermanīefore Sweden’s general elections in September, Thunberg went on a three-week strike from school in an effort to urge her government to act on climate change. And while Bregoli is floored that she’s gone from spending some nights sleeping on the floor of a trailer to being one of this year’s popular Halloween costumes, she recognizes that she’s not exactly a role model. “When I became famous and realized that I could literally do whatever I wanted,” Bregoli says, “music was the first thing I wanted to do.” In September 2017, she signed a multi-million dollar deal with Atlantic Records, and with her recent single, “ These Heaux,” Bregoli became the youngest female rapper ever to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. Phil titled, “I Want To Give Up My Car-Stealing, Knife-Wielding, Twerking 13-Year-Old Daughter Who Tried To Frame Me For A Crime.” At one point, the audience booed her, and Bregoli turned to them and shouted, with outsize confidence, “Cash me outside, how ‘bout dah?” A meme was born, and eventually, so was a rap career. Her public life began in late 2016, when Bhabie (real name: Danielle Bregoli) appeared on an episode of Dr. The name refers not only to her age, but to the number of minutes her fame might have lasted had she not leveraged viral meme-hood into a legitimate music career. It’s hard to imagine a more fitting title for Bhad Bhabie’s debut mixtape than 15. “I want to transform the systems that we live under from ones that oppress us to ones that empower us.” -Cady Lang “I want to change the world’s perception of black youth and to empower black youth to claim their own space and demand to have our needs met,” Abdullah tells TIME. Now Abdullah is looking to the future, with plans of practicing law and continuing her work as an activist. ![]() Through the Youth Vanguard, Abdullah also helped create “Black Lives Matter in Schools,” a program that aims to end the policing and profiling that black and brown students experience its agenda was recently adopted this summer by the National Education Association. This year alone, she has advocated for black youth in front of half a million people during the Women’s March in Los Angeles and written a widely shared op-ed for Bustle that addressed the need for intersectionality within the Never Again MSD movement. As a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter LA Youth Vanguard, Abdullah has become one of her generation’s most powerful voices on issues relating to social justice.
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