Summary
You are going to fight tooth and nail until you're famous. But as you struggle for recognition, you’ll have to face something that's tormented you throughout your whole life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Imagine Life, add free on Amazon music. Download the app today. |
| 0:16.2 | Imagine you're walking across the playground of your high school, |
| 0:20.1 | stepping to the beat of a disco song that's playing only in your head. |
| 0:24.9 | The gravel crunches in rhythm under your platform shoes. |
| 0:28.4 | A breeze blows through your long flowing hair. |
| 0:31.9 | It's 7.30 in the morning. |
| 0:34.0 | Classes don't start for over an hour, but you believe it's never too early for disco. |
| 0:41.0 | And for the first time in history, you and your school's principal are in agreement. |
| 0:46.8 | That's why he introduced what he calls the Breakfast Club. |
| 0:50.4 | It's an hour-long dance party in the cafeteria before classes start. |
| 0:54.7 | The principal thought it would help with the school's truancy problem. |
| 0:58.5 | Well, it's worked on you. You love a good dance party, even if you haven't always looked the part. |
| 1:05.6 | You're a freshman whose awkward phase seems more like an era. |
| 1:10.6 | The few kids who know you think you're weird. |
| 1:13.8 | Up till now, you've been a Breakfast Club wallflower. |
| 1:18.4 | That you've decided changes today. |
| 1:21.1 | You stop by a parked Ford Pinto and check your reflection in the mirror. |
| 1:27.6 | All good. |
| 1:29.6 | Your trajectory has to change today if you're ever going to attain worldwide fame. |
| 1:34.4 | And you have to get famous. |
| 1:37.3 | Your mother says it's your destiny. |
| 1:39.7 | She's told you that all your life. |
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