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so NO Gwen Stefani???


Just wow, they sign up one of the world's biggest pop stars for this movie then don't once use her for a song? That's beyond dumb. Adding insult to injury, she only has like 2 lines!

Clearly they only wanted her name for the poster. I don't know why Gwen would humiliate herself like that?

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She's in the soundtrack quite a bit. Just Google her name + Trolls soundtrack.

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These are literally her only lines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrZtHYwLJNQ

My guess is that she was originally slated as the lead, but now that Kendrick has marquee power Gwen got bumped but still decided to collect a paycheck with a cameo.

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That is a shame. It probably was a result of post production editing. She's still part of the music, though, isn't she? I saw her name credited in some of it.

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It's possible they planned to have her sing but cut it. The soundtrack includes a song a song called "What U Workin' With" with her and Justin Timberlake, that, as far as I know, doesn't actually appear anywhere, even in the credits. Of course it's possible that song's there for other reasons.

She's also technically listed on the soundtrack for the mash-up song in the troll village, but I don't remember her actually singing in it.


That's beyond dumb. Adding insult to injury, she only has like 2 lines!


If this sounds like an exaggeration to anyone reading this thread, it isn't. I saw this twice, and the second time I decided I was going to count all of her lines (not because I'm a fan or anything, I just had been thinking about Dreamworks' pointlessly huge casts a lot and wanted to see just how little that pointless character in particular talked). I ended up stopping and forgetting because I'm pretty sure she only has two and she does both at the beginning of the film (and one of them's more of a surprised squeak than a line). She chimes in sometimes when there are like five characters talking at once, but that's it.

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Thanks for backing me up :) Apparently nobody except me and you care about Gwen anymore - at least, nobody under 30 cares - because I haven't seen a single other comment or article addressing her bizarre absence in this film

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LOL HAHAHAHA LMAO OMG THATS HILARIOUS ... You called her a famous pop star of today FFFFFTTT BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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I remember that popular album that she made in 1995.

The Force Awakens - The Last Jedi - From His Nap

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Um...

Love. Angel. Music. Baby. (2004)
The Sweet Escape (2006)

"Aliens performed tickling executions during the Salem witch trials"

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