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...For Ditum, who is in her 40s, the noughties were the “Upskirt Decade”, a motif she returns to as she sifts through the histories of nine famous British and American women — Britney Spears, Paris Hilton,...
...“One Kiss” has staccato singsong hooks reminiscent of a Max Martin-produced Britney Spears hit. “Nightmare” opens with Wendy trying out for the role of Europop torch singer....
...And they end up sort of dancing on Instagram like Britney Spears, and you worry about them. So I want her to stop and slow down....
...Shania Twain He’s got a very R&B style to his country. That is just totally my vibe. Like, I just love to listen to it....
...Paris Hilton’s sex tape and Britney Spears’ mental breakdown were grist to the mill of this 24/7 scandal factory. So was Winehouse’s descent into addiction....
...Tinashe wanted to expand hers, musically speaking, so as not to be bound by genre labels such as “R&B” or “urban”....
...It was May of 2018 and the R&B artist, known as R Kelly, had been fending off lawsuits since the 1990s....
...She gives the example of YouTuber Adam B who, at age 20, surprised his parents by buying them a family home in Northern Ireland....
...Nu-metal rubs shoulders with crisp R&B, which sits alongside dance-pop, which in turn swerves into stadium rock....
...is a laid-back pastiche of US pop-R&B while “Push & Pull” sounds like Britney Spears in her teen-pop heyday with the brash edges smoothed off. ★★★☆☆ ‘Percent’ is released by Plan A Entertainment...
...By contrast, Spotify in January lured five buzzy hip-hop and R&B artists to perform for free at its Grammy’s party, underscoring the changing of the guard....
...The R&B producer Rodney Jerkins oversaw Britney Spears’ version in 2002, and turned the riff from a monolith into a molehill; Spears’ vocal was devoid of the required raunch....
...But she took control when making her second album Missundaztood, moving from R&B to pop-rock with the help of producer and songwriter Linda Perry....
...Some go off the rails (Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus), others do so smoothly (Justin Timberlake). Ariana Grande is in the latter camp....
...a riposte to Jay-Z’s 99 Problems, Britney Spears producer Max Martin taking Rick Rubin’s role, a catchy sax loop replacing the original’s macho riffs....
...double-denim look he adopted while squiring Britney Spears in the 1990s....
...The cecil.b.demille of dance-pop surrounds himself with a vast cast of guests on #willpower, from K-pop girl group 2NEI to Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber to Britney Spears....
...Gaga, Swift, Perry, Beyoncé and Britney Spears also appeared among the top 10 acts for digital sales. Has the call for respect finally been met?...
...”, an acid casualty’s take on modern R&B-pop) to Yoko Ono’s mantra-like turn on “Do It!”...
...The tweeting celebrities are: i) (c) Britney Spears; ii) (a) Ashton Kutcher; iii) (b) Oprah Winfrey 28....
...In the course of a single song she morphs between flesh-and-blood Britney and automated Britney so seamlessly and frequently that we grow unsure of the difference....
...(a) Arundhati Roy(b) Vikram Seth(c) Kiran Desai(d) Aravind Adiga 30....
...George Soros is on a roll – generating more publicity than Britney Spears on a very bad day with his gloomy predictions for markets (“facing their worst crisis in 60 years”) and attacks on the Fed....
...But, in truth, much of Murphy’s material sounds like B-sides – classy, seductive B-sides, yet B-sides nonetheless....
...breadth of continental Europe: shouting, gurning, switching lights on and off, having several unrelated things going on simultaneously and mangling some great composer’s music (here poor old Ludwig van B)...
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