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...US R&B singer Miguel has an attractive cameo in “Saturnine”....
...Have a tasty weekend, Helen ThomasHead of Lex...
...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 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....
...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....
...“Puntería” is a link-up with Cardi B, a New Yorker with Latin American heritage. A good match on paper, it’s frittered away on plodding dance-pop....
...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....
...Brooklyn or Manhattan’s Seneca in the 19th century, there are plentiful magical-realist elements too, which call to mind such works as Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Water Dancer and Helen...
...The template is the sinuous sound of 1990s R&B-pop, not the mushy end of the slow number spectrum. The sound is similar to that developed by another export-led regional pop powerhouse, Sweden....
...helen.thomas@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Slapping a green label on mortgages ‘won’t cut it’ / From Steve Round, Co-Founder, SaaScada, London EC3, UK...
...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?”...
...The music had elements of orchestral soul, vintage R&B, 1960s Afrobeat and classic hip-hop, assembled in a way that sounded contemporary rather than backward-looking. Simz’s rapping was the catalyst....
...Offset’s wife Cardi B joins him on “Freaky”, which treats courtship as a type of rap battle, and “Jealousy”, a knockout diss track based around a sample of 1990s Memphis group Three 6 Mafia....
...In between, Ditum investigates the collective acceptance of atrocious pop-culture moments: the media’s preoccupation with Spears’s virginity; R Kelly’s lyrics about his R&B prodigy Aaliyah, who was 12 when...
...“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....
...Helen Dennis, Labour cabinet member for new homes and sustainable development at Southwark council in London, welcomed the new charges but said the government needed to do more to help local authorities....
...She was heading to the airport for a flight to Los Angeles, to style actor Hunter Schafer for the Vanity Fair party after the Oscars....
...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....
...This charming interaction was a reminder of Pops’s innovative use of the guitar back in the day, adding bluesy licks and R&B riffs to the spiritual sounds of gospel....
...Analysts estimate Opec+ has about 6mn b/d of spare capacity it can unleash on to global markets to lower prices if they spike into the triple digits to prevent demand destruction....
...Born and partly raised in the US, Amaarae adopts the breathy come-hithers of a sultry R&B vocalist on “Princess Going Digital”....
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