The Edge - Issue 6 (May 2021)

e t o N s ’ r o t i Ed Summer 2021 is a year dedicated to and full of sports, from the Olympics, UEFA EUROS, Wimbledon, and 25 years of the WNBA. We at The Edge felt this would be the perfect moment to look at the intersection between sports and entertainment, because at the end of the day isn’t sports entertaining?

Well, that question is up for debate and many may disagree, however no one can disagree that the way sports and film overlap are incredible. Movies such as She’s The Man (p. 24) and Hunger Games (p. 23) have intertwined sports into their narratives. Hunger Games does this in a unique way by merging archery into its storyline, no one could ever forget the scene in Hunger Games where Katniss Everdeen shoots an arrow into an apple that was sitting in a pig’s mouth. This demonstration of sports made the movie so much more interesting, and even in movies that do not centre around sports such as Twilight, one of the most epic scenes is the baseball game. These moments show just how important sports is to the entertainment world.

Sports like basketball have been known to be entrenched in music and hip-hop culture (p.

22), take J. Cole who has recently released his sixth studio album, The Off-Season which is practically dedicated to and inspired by the NBA. Not only are musicians dedicating or finding inspiration from sports for their music, but sport stars such as former English rugby union player James Haskell (p. 29) have done a complete career change into the world of music. The easy transition between music and sports further indicates what we are trying to put across in this magazine; that the sports and entertainment world are not as far apart as it may seem.

As you may have noticed the front cover for this magazine is pop legend, Britney Spears.

This year’s committee (mainly the editor) absolutely adore Britney Spears, and for our final magazine we decided to look back at the pop legends career and discuss the widely debated question of Britney’s Best Eras (p. 13). We have also delved into Britney’s best support acts, and trust me, some of the answers may surprise you (p. 45).

The magazine doesn’t just centre around sports and Britney Spears however; our writers have delved into the magical world of Fortnite (p. 36) and top tips for festival goers this summer (p. 42). This is our final full magazine of the year and it has been amazing to see The Edge grow immensely during what has been a very questionable year for us all. Our last magazine as a committee will be released as a collaboration with the new committee, but before that I would like to say a massive thank you to our writers and to the amazing committee who have made The Edge the multi-media platform that it is today!