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...The point was to pay unflinching witness to what William Burroughs once described as being on the end of every fork: flesh and death, the grisly nub of the matter....
...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....
...US R&B singer Miguel has an attractive cameo in “Saturnine”....
...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....
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...It’s sort of was like a Lana Del Rey feeling, a kind of R&B feeling song. I really thought it was good. And I think she’s really, like, perennially good....
...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....
...“It’s a tool that hunters use to scare the ducks so that they are easier to shoot.”...
...Brent crude, the international benchmark, traded as high as $92 a barrel on Friday after breaking above $90/b last week for the first time since October....
...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....
...“On factory floors across the nation, our autoworkers are making cars and trucks that give American drivers a choice — a way to get from point A to point B without having to fuel up at a gas station,” said...
...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....
...Chalmers is recruited by “B”, head of British intelligence, and parachuted into Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938....
...According to the title of a 1961 William Burroughs novel, what kind of machine is the human body? What was the title of David Bowie’s 1973 album of cover versions?...
...It was essentially a new-sheriff-in-town Western retooled as a pumped-up B-movie — in this case, B for brawn, booze and breasts. It has now been remade in a more sophisticated variant....
...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....
...It is too soon to say a) whether the reformed bus system introduced in September will be deemed a success in the long run or b) what a sustainable funding model might look like.)...
...“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....
...William Wade, a credit analyst at JPMorgan, warned earlier this month that haircuts of 15-25 per cent on the ringfenced debt were now a “plausible” outcome that investors should be wary of....
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