"Steven Universe" panelists, from left, Jeff Ball, Ian Jones-Quartey, Deedee Magno Hall, Zach Callison, Jeff Liu, Rebecca Sugar, Ben Levin, Michaela Dietz, Estelle, Aivi Tran and Steven "Surasshu" Velema. Greg”) that aired last summer as well as a sing-along concert the show’s cast and crew held at San Diego Comic-Con. As the story has progressed, some of the show’s most powerful messages about love have often been conveyed in song.Īmong the show’s previous musical milestones include a full musical episode (“Mr. I hope you’ll love this album as much as we loved making it.”įollowing the adventures of the part-human, part-magical alien Steven as he comes into his powers and learns about his legacy while saving the day with the Crystal Gems, “Steven Universe” has been hailed for its inclusive storytelling. “But I can say that this is the best they’ve ever sounded! Please blast them! Please sing along! That’s what these are for! If the music of ‘Steven Universe’ has been a tiny piece of the score of your life, please know that I am so honored. “I cannot say enough about how much I love each of these tracks!” continued Sugar. “We poured our hearts into these songs and now they’re finally collected and stunningly re-mastered by our composers Aivi & Surasshu.” “I am so excited about this album that I hardly have the words,” Sugar said in a press release. And now the series is celebrating an all-new musical milestone: the long-awaited official soundtrack.Ĭartoon Network has announced “Steven Universe Soundtrack: Volume 1,” a digital album featuring songs from the show handpicked by series creator Rebecca Sugar, including the theme song “We Are the Crystal Gems.” In a 2011 article, Ramsden writes that Calhoun’s studies were brandished by others to justify population control efforts largely targeted at poor and marginalized communities.From a rap about cat-shaped frozen treats to a pop ditty about being a star, it’s no secret that “Steven Universe’s” original music is a large part of the show’s magic. Population growth in the 1970s was swelling, and films such as Soylent Green tapped into growing fears of overpopulation and urban violence. “There’s no recovery, and that’s what was so shocking to ,” says Ramsden.Ĭalhoun wasn’t shy about anthropomorphizing his findings, binning rodents into categories such as “juvenile delinquents” and “social dropouts,” and others seized on these human parallels. Effectively, says Ramsden, they became “trapped in an infantile state of early development,” even when removed from Universe 25 and introduced to “normal” mice. Instead of interacting with their peers, males compulsively groomed themselves females stopped getting pregnant. Mice born into the chaos couldn’t form normal social bonds or engage in complex social behaviors such as courtship, mating, and pup-rearing. This iteration, dubbed Universe 25, was the first crowding experiment he ran to completion.Įventually Universe 25 took another disturbing turn. The only scarce resource in this microcosm was physical space, and Calhoun suspected that it was only a matter of time before this caused trouble in paradise.Ĭalhoun had been running similar experiments with rodents for decades but had always had to end them prematurely, ironically because of laboratory space constraints, says Edmund Ramsden, a science historian at Queen Mary University of London. In 1968, Calhoun had started the experiment by introducing four mouse couples into a specially designed pen-a veritable rodent Garden of Eden-with numerous “apartments,” abundant nesting supplies, and unlimited food and water. The results, laid bare at his feet, had taken years to play out. Calhoun wasn’t the survivor of a natural disaster or nuclear meltdown rather, he was a researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health conducting an experiment into the effects of overcrowding on mouse behavior.
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