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I thought the Lifetime original movie An En Vogue Christmas, which premiered Saturday, would be a vaguely bio-pic trip down memory lane with a Christmas thread, but instead we got something a little more abstract. An En Vogue Christmas exists in a delightful quasi-reality where the era-defining musical group is also a clique of fictional characters, in the vein of real band/sitcom stars The Monkees.

The plot, briefly: young Kendall (Genelle Williams) grows up in a concert hall run by her dad and her uncle (national treasure David Alan Grier) where En Vogue often performs. Flash forward a couple decades, suddenly the concert hall needs a lot of cash! The only solution: another En Vogue concert! But will they come back together to do one last show? And what about all that money Kendall's Uncle stole from them?

Sure, the embezzlement plotline gets a little dry, but it serves to confine all the conflict and in-fighting between the fictional characters, leaving the ladies of En Vogue to float above it all until they swoop in and provide a Christmas Miracle in lieu of Santa Claus or Angel Clarence.

By existing in fiction, En Vogue Christmas becomes a platform for all the messages En Vogue wants to get across, without having to reference the group's complicated history. Shrewd move, and sort of fascinating? On a branding level, it's pretty fascinating to examine what En Vogue really really wants us to take away from this movie.

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10. En Vogue is a trio. I'm going to guess this has something to do with her very public fretting that this movie would be a "trainwreck," but even in 90's flashbacks Dawn Robinson simply doesn't exist. The closest we get to acknowledging the group rose to fame as a quartet is the cryptic remark "It isn't the four of us anymore," which I had to rewind to catch.

9. En Vogue has a résumé that could knock you out of the park, see clip above.

8. There are a lot of international pop stars out there who can't harmonize to save their lives, but they're famous because their daddies pay for high-power publicists.

7. When En Vogue harmonizes magic fills the air, ghostly memories fill this mortal realm, and Christmas is saved.

6. If En Vogue ever announced they were going back on tour they would break the internet faster than a Kardashian butt covered in baby oil flies down a Slip n' Slide. They would be 75% of the trending social media in North America (or something)!

5. If you steal a lot of money from En Vogue, but then you use it to pay for your niece's college education, En Vogue will be pretty chill about it. En Vogue is sorta okay with you stealing from them if it's for college.

4. The ladies of En Vogue are angels.

3. The ladies of En Vogue love each other, love singing together, apparently they even spend major holidays together, but they aren't really into performing onstage together.

2. Your dorky white assistant does not impress En Vogue.

1. En Vogue knows the Lifetime regular viewers in your world—your mom, your aunt, your niece, myself—love the song Free Your Mind. The movie opened with a rendition of it and referenced it again about 18 times in the rest of the script. Even if you somehow skipped a decade worth of VMAS you still know: if you free your mind the rest will follow.