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...The style is R&B, a genre famous for vocal ornament. De Casier and her regular co-producer Natal Zaks don’t so much flatten it out as give it a diminuendo gloss....
...In “R&B”, singer Lily Fontaine contrasts the style of music she’s expected to write as a mixed-race woman, the titular R&B, with the music she wants to write....
...The role of the vampiric pleasure-seeker that The Weeknd brought to R&B in the 2010s has left Usher’s brand of characterisation marooned in the past. He doesn’t bring much conviction to it either....
...“La Fuerte” reconnects Shakira with Bizarrap, but lightning hasn’t struck twice with this generic EDM outing....
...There’s quite a lot of feathery pop-soul and R&B, nice enough but too airy to leave an impression....
...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....
...“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....
...But these aren’t simpering affairs. The template is the sinuous sound of 1990s R&B-pop, not the mushy end of the slow number spectrum....
...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?”...
...But Simz, aka Simbiatu Ajikawo, isn’t merely joking at such moments. She also sounds as if she’s setting herself the most strenuous possible challenge....
...“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....
...Why can’t I?” When we spoke earlier this month, it was 5am in New York....
...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....
...“The political logic is there but sometimes in conflict logic doesn’t really mean much,” León said. “Things can go south very, very quickly.”...
...Co-helmed by Lanza with various other electronic producers, including regular collaborator Jeremy Greenspan of Junior Boys, it initially has a more dance floor-focused sound than the electronic pop and R&B...
...When Frank came out, she was briefly labelled the “British Badu” due to the influence of one of her favourite artists, the innovative US soul and R&B singer Erykah Badu....
...“The Holy Spirit ain’t arrived yet,” the gospel-soul trouper pointed out. She should know: Staples has been summoning the power of the Word through song since she was 11....
...Born and partly raised in the US, Amaarae adopts the breathy come-hithers of a sultry R&B vocalist on “Princess Going Digital”....
...If you don’t know what I’m on about: 7pm, Saturday, ITV. If the air fryer doesn’t delight, try the latest Harlan Coben adaptation on Netflix, Fool Me Once....
...Brought up as Anna Mae Bullock, she was given the stage name Tina by the R&B bandleader Ike Turner, who recruited her after hearing her sing in a St Louis nightclub in 1957....
...We’re avid vintage hunters, so Jerome Vintage on Vesterbrogade is a must-visit....
...But the golden thread that links everything it is planning to do is that a) it costs nothing and b) it sounds more impressive than it is....
...Her music was an idiosyncratic but coherent blend of R&B, electronic music, hip-hop and surreal passages of Irish fiddle-playing, performed with bravura stage presence....
...It doesn’t appear on In Pieces. Rather than reduce her to the generic figure of bedroom siren or club nymph, the album opens up a wider repertoire of roles....
...B-7) who “sometimes gets ahead of himself.” (Exh. B-8)....
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