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Though Earth, Wind & Fire went on hiatus in 1984, the sound of “Reasons” echoed through Prince’s “Adore” in 1987; Kravitz paid such loving homage to the album’s title track in his “It Ain’t Over ’til It’s Over,” from 1991, that someone on YouTube made a seamless mashup of the two songs.

I knew that the German language could come through with a mashup that had sufficient gravitas, but it is a language that I have not studied since the fall of sixth grade.

But the movie musical’s costumes aren’t just a mashup of looks we’ve seen before; they’re an elegant reinvention of iconic “Wizard of Oz” references and a joyous summation of its designer’s career.

It was barely 4:30 a.m. at the Spud Point Marina, and Ogg’s crew, Bradlee Titus, 34, and Axel Bjorklund, 22, both multi-generational fishermen, prepared the deck by washing equipment, filling water buckets and packing jars with bait — a stinky, oily mashup of mackerel and squid.

Trump’s administration turned out to be every bit as bad, Smith said, as she had imagined — a mashup of scandals, impeachments, anti-immigrant policies and a botched response to a global pandemic that killed hundreds of thousands of Americans; a disproportionate number of them were nonwhite.