Now United is a global pop group, whose members all come from different countries. It was created by Simon Fuller, former manager of the Spice Girls. As of April 2021, the group has eighteen members: Alex Rey, from Spain; Any Gabrielly, from Brazil; Bailey May, from the Philippines; Diarra Sylla, from Senegal note ; Heyoon Jeong, from South Korea; Hina Yoshihara, from Japan; Joalin Loukamaa, from Finland note ; Josh Beauchamp, from Canada; Krystian Wang, from China; Lamar Morris, from the United Kingdom; Melanie Thomas, from the Ivory Coast; Noah Urrea, from the United States; Nour Ardakani, from Lebanon; Sabina Hidalgo, from Mexico; Savannah Clarke, from Australia; Shivani Paliwal, from India; Sina Deinert, from Germany; and Sofya Plotnikova, from Russia. Initially composed of 14 members Savannah, Nour and Melaine joined the group in February, September and November 2020 respectively while Alex was added in late April 2021
In 2016, Simon began searching for talent worldwide for his global pop group through his reality show The Now United Show which is now a web series focusing on the members and their lives in the group.
In November 2017, the official website started presenting the group's members through teasers alongside their names and their countries' flags. Joalin and Sofya were introduced on November 11th; Diarra on the 12th; Noah and then Any on the 14th; Heyoon, Hina, Josh and Lamar on the 15th; Bailey, Shivani and Krystian on the 16th; Sabina on the 21st; and Sina on the 22nd. This led to their debut on December 5th, 2017 with their first single "Summer in the City". Now United has since released over thirty different singles with music videos corresponding to each.
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Tropes
- Beach Episode: Now United goes to the beach in the web series's Goa and Rio episodes.
- Custom Uniform of Sexy: Sometimes, the feminine variant of the uniforms worn by the group are made up of crop tops and high-waist trousers, exposing the girls' upper midriffs.
- Girls vs. Boys Plot: The group has had twice as many girls as boys, so they have seen it happen. Best shown in the season 3 episode 23 Now United Games and the lead up to the next member's discovery after Melaine towards the end of season 3 and the first few episodes of season 4.
- Even the Girls Want Her: In the song "Paraná".
- Gratuitous Foreign Language: Considering Now United's status as a multinational group, this is expected:
- This [6] video, for example, Sofya challenges her fellow group members to say random words in Russian and also say many things in their respective languages.
- Sabina and Joalin speak in Spanish in part of their respective introduction videos.
- Noah saying "Hi" in Japanese and then in Korean in the second voice change episode.
- Shivani gets a rap part in Hindi in the songs "Dana" and "Pas Le Choix".
- "Pas Le Choix" itself could qualify for this trope, as it features French, English, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Japanese and the aforementioned Hindi.
- This [6]
- Multinational Team: The group's main marketing point. Their outfits often include their countries' flags somewhere.
- In the group's webseries, the members are introduced with their names and their countries' names alongside a rounded flag.
- When the group appeared in Brazilian late-night show The Noite com Danilo Gentili, the members, except for Krystian and Lamarnote , who couldn't show up, held paper flags.
- Sleep Cute: Hina and Heyoon in the "Legends" videoclip.
- Sixth Ranger: In mid-2019, it was announced that two new members would join Now United. Fans could choose which countries would be represented by these two new members. One of these two new members will be Australian. On November 27th 2019, a video was released by the group's official YouTube channel, announcing that the sixteenth member will be from the Middle East and North Africa.
- On February 28th 2020, Now United announced its fifteenth member. She is Savannah Clarke, from Australia.
