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...Bataller’s knowledge is based on 15 years’ operating the brand’s sister wellness centre in Alicante, where roughly 55 per cent of guests are repeat visitors, and R&R is a vastly evolved prospect....
...The character’s simple, instantly recognisable features and bow have remained unchanged over the decades as she developed into a billion-dollar franchise (analysed in Christine R Yano’s 2013 book Pink Globalization...
...And that’s girl spelt with a triple R, which is a kind of feminist offshoot of punk, which really harnessed, sort of DIY ethos, very polemical, but just also really gutsy and funny and punchy lyrics, raw...
...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.”...
...Monét’s music takes cues from the golden age of 1990s and early-’00s R&B as well as ’70s disco classics, but she has a personal touch too, adding elements of Deep-South hip-hop and west-coast soul....
...The breathy shimmy of “Good At Breaking Hearts” is enriched by the gorgeous vocals of UK R&B talent JNR Williams....
...The songs’ subject matter isn’t sophisticated, full of raunchy double entendres, but musically things are more interesting: a pan-Latin pop blitz, including reggaeton, R&B and trap, with an occasional dash...
...Signed to a major label, he was originally stylised as a heterosexual R&B smoothie, serenading women in his videos. The final straw came when his planned big single release was used for Celine Dion....
...“I was really enjoying playing with all these genres, but I think maybe it was confusing for people; they didn’t know whether I was supposed to be a pop star, alternative or an R&B singer....
...Her multi-platinum repertoire has spanned golden-age R&B, punk-pop riffing, country-tinged ballads and clubby bangers, all powered by her gloriously sweet-spiky vocals and irrepressible attitude....
...Romance is in rude health throughout Desire; tender sentiments appear alongside messy glamour, lust and mystique (including the alt-R&B throb of “Bunny Is a Rider”, originally released in 2021)....
...Thursday night’s arena crowd was dressed to party and happy to be hyped by DJ anthems before the main event: US R&B singer-songwriter, performer, producer and self-styled gentleman Ne-Yo, aka 42-year-old...
...Their moves were mesmerising under the stark spotlights: a fusion of seductive motion and arachnoid contortion that intensified the menacing undertone of warped R&B grooves such as “Meteorite”....
...It was hard to believe that her opening number, “Dirrty”, was released 20 years ago; this racy R&B/pop smash (and its David LaChapelle-directed video) marked Aguilera’s transition from bubblegum pop debutante...
...One of his big breaks came when an American R&B group called The Jones Girls came to London to record an album. They were big in the ‘70s, and this was meant to be their comeback album....
...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...
...There’s yet another killer stalking the crumbling streets of Minsk, Belarus, in 1990, in Black Wolf (Head of Zeus, £20/Mulholland Books, $29) by Kathleen Kent....
...Still, the most startling guest slot is surely Swedish pop icon Robyn, who turns up as an unconventional flight attendant on the spoken outro of the mesmerising R&B-meets-country groove of “Secrets From...
...Specific programming skills, such as Python, R, VBA and “classics” such as Java and C++ are always valuable too, Spade says....
...Kathleen Baird-Murray 97D Elgin Ave, W9; alexandrasoveral.co.uk Melanie Grant, SydneyWith salons in Los Angeles, Sydney, Melbourne and – occasionally – Paris, the facialist Melanie Grant is almost as jet-set...
...Beyond a few paragraphs about technology and R&D, it said little about business....
...Investors did not prioritise that “r” word — resilience — in the past when valuing stocks. But HSBC analysts think this is changing....
...“In the best of times, automotive companies are already struggling to manage their R&D and capex requirements,” said Nesche Yazgan, an analyst at investment manager BlueBay Asset Management....
...Letters in response to this article: The public markets have become too burdensome / From John R Sclater, Barcombe, E Sussex, UK Don’t go blaming Brexit for the fall in LSE listings / From Stephen Hazell-Smith...
...“It speaks to the youth; it’s the energy, the R&B tempo and the happy vibe....
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