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...Such retro notes are evident from this album’s R&B-inflected opener, “Cut My Hair”, where she seductively schemes and sighs: “Good girls are so over-rated.”...
...Tara Turner silver and tiger’s-eye Tusk necklace, £450, gold and silver St Christopher pendant necklace, £600, and gold and tiger’s-eye Tusk earring, £180 Vincent wears Edward Sexton wool jacket, £1,200...
...This year visitors will flock to Óbuda Island on the Danube to see Billie Eilish, David Guetta, Mumford & Sons and Lorde, among others....
...While growing up she immersed herself in the work of Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and Billie Holiday. From them she learnt to hone her exceptional gift for phrasing....
...Billie Milam Weisman could be seen as the keeper of the flame....
...The backing band gave their 1990s R&B hits an old-fashioned soul revue feel, while super-slick dancers did backflips....
...The setlist spanned big-hitting ballads and R&B: from the tender cover of Bob Dylan’s “Make You Feel My Love” on her debut album 19 and her extravagant Bond theme, “Skyfall”, to the divorce confessionals...
...The Angel You Don’t Know’s blend of US R&B and Afropop was warmly received, including end-of-year picks by the New York Times and the New Yorker....
...I ask if he’s seen the “thirst traps” devoted to him on TikTok, video clips of Lynch accompanied by Billie Eilish’s “My Boy” and superimposed with hearts....
...Director R.J. Cutler started shooting in distant 2016; early scenes find Eilish juggling new success and average teenage stuff at her low-key family home in Los Angeles....
...She has also arguably paved the way in mainstream music for independent-spirited young artists, whether it’s Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Khalid or Troye Sivan....
...So Billie Jean King wrote about tennis star Naomi Osaka and Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser wrote about GM’s chief Mary Barra, who also made the list. And there are names from all over the world....
...Burnett shifts through the gears with impressive control and on Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”, necessary restraint....
...I think [18-year-old American singer] Billie Eilish just showed the millennial world the new shape....
...“We have Billie Holiday for Aries, Debbie Harry for Cancer in a crab tee, and Keith Haring for Taurus, wearing a bull hoodie.”...
...Bulgaria’s Victoria does a decent but very derivative Billie Eilish impression on “Tears Getting Sober”....
...A piano-led cover of Billie Eilish’s “Everything I Wanted” diverted the song towards soulful uplift, with Keys turning on the drama in contrast to the original’s whispered verses....
...They were for US singer Billie Eilish, a rapidly ascending star with an ear-grabbing sound and eye-catching aesthetic....
...du Chapitre Premier Cru 2015 Rully, Burgundy £31.30 Stannary St Wine Co (sold only in a case of 12, £331.15) Rich nose and flatteringly fruity palate, proof of the Côte Chalonnaise renaissance. 13.5% R...
...The collapse of Toys ‘R’ Us also hurt Mattel. This could be dismissed as a one-off were it not indicative of wider disruption. Hasbro is better managed and better positioned to cope....
...The other is fictional: Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe”. An atmospheric production that mixed country music with funky R&B, “Ode to Billie Joe” is an enigma....
...I always go to R Agius on London’s Edgware Road, the oldest scooter shop in the country. £5,399; 363 Edgware Road, London W2 (020-7723 0995; ragius.piaggiogroup.co.uk) The last meal that truly impressed...
...of sharply worded rhyming followed the opening line “No more political monsters”; then came syllable-crunching wordplay on “We’re living in a po-lice-state”, and oblique, beautifully sung references to Billie...
...And in 1984, among the singer’s eight Grammy awards, included Best R&B Song for “Billie Jean” — but it was “Beat It” that won the genre-sweeping Record of the Year....
...He is especially moving about Billie Holiday, the jazz singer persecuted for her heroin habit by the sadistic and racist Anslinger — in stark contrast with Judy Garland, whose heroin addiction Anslinger...
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