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...The R&B singer has the stature for the marquee event. In his pomp, hit records poured from him like the sweet cadences of his singing....
...Ludovic Hunter-Tilney . . . which should be like a return to hip hop, which would be sort of like squaring the circle, wouldn’t it? Back to hip hop, R&B....
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...There’s quite a lot of feathery pop-soul and R&B, nice enough but too airy to leave an impression....
...“This is my R&B moment,” she announced as a wind machine blew her tresses around. She exhibited the performative manner of the very online, always conscious of an audience....
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...The indictment was handed down by a grand jury and filed in federal court in California by special counsel David Weiss, who was appointed by attorney-general Merrick Garland to probe Hunter Biden’s business...
...They opened with the distinctively curved notes of David Gilmour’s guitar-playing....
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...When their idol took the stage, the screams that greeted her would do justice to the word hysteria, yet what followed was not an evening of Taylor Swift pop or Ariana Grande R&B, but a set of bossa novas...
...The main style is soulful R&B, classily orchestrated and sung in a style reminiscent of Mariah Carey. “What’s the point of all the pretty things in the world if I don’t have you?”...
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...“Hands” is a pop-R&B misstep with synthetic US-accented vocals and a semi-rapped refrain that resembles a shout-out to Barbie, as though the song were a cast-off from the blockbuster film’s soundtrack....
...In February, she wore a Burberry trenchcoat to the Brit Awards with “Long Live R&B” emblazoned on its back. The message was prompted by the lack of UK R&B artists among the nominees....
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