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...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...
...“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....
...Wotan has no spear; Siegfried neither horn nor sword; Froh’s rainbow bridge is a magic trick with handkerchiefs; there is no Rheingold....
...Britain by the UK Trojan record label, which promoted ska, an upbeat, calypso-influenced dance music that originated in the early 1960s as a Caribbean twist on Motown and rhythm and blues (“upside-down R&...
...At the top of this list is Clive Calder, who made billions by signing teen stars Nsync and Britney Spears, in addition to R Kelly, building his company Jive Records into a 1990s pop powerhouse....
...Tinashe wanted to expand hers, musically speaking, so as not to be bound by genre labels such as “R&B” or “urban”....
...And until I was 15 or so, I had a speech impediment that made it impossible to pronounce the hard American “r”, and therefore, among many other words, my first name....
...Director R.J. Cutler started shooting in distant 2016; early scenes find Eilish juggling new success and average teenage stuff at her low-key family home in Los Angeles....
...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....
...Adherents to the genre include an eclectic range of figures such as the science-fiction novelists Samuel R Delany and Octavia Butler, the graffiti artist Rammellzee, R&B singers Erykah Badu and Janelle Monáe...
...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....
...Slideshow photographs: Fred R Conrad/ Eyevine; Darren S Higgins/ Eyevine; AP...
...In display cases, beautiful silver betel nut sets were jumbled with porcelain figurines of shepherdesses, spears, shields, kris daggers, coins....
...double-denim look he adopted while squiring Britney Spears in the 1990s....
...Nevinson, the now forgotten London social realist Ruskin Spear, and a young Leon Kossoff....
...The Edwardian villa, beside an unkempt golf course, was what the expats from upcountry, who came for some R&R, called a “chummery”....
...We are now considering expanding our operations in the US because the environment for attracting R&D grants seems to be a lot better than it is here.”...
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