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...The running gag of the soundtrack is the incessant ringtone of “That’s Life”, whose louche rhythms are eminently danceable — as fans of Twyla Tharp’s Nine Sinatra Songs will testify....
...Their songs were madcap blasts of glitchy distortion and bubblegum hooks, with chipmunk vocals chirruping about money and ringtones....
...Sri Lankan musicians play at the side of the stage, soundtracking the action in rich, juddering waves of sound, occasionally using a delicate traditional flute to mimic Skype’s familiar ringtone....
...‘Tis the season of lowish volume, random price spikes, bad rumours, short dossiers, unusual ringtones, and the boss’s WFH policy being unofficially expanded to include Laucala Island....
...He had the anthem of the USSR as his phone’s ringtone. As uncertainty prevails, some residents have started to leave, heading out of Transnistria and into Moldova....
...As both sides could learn something from each other, perhaps the ideal solution would be a tie-up between these two great brands: the platinum iPhone complete with national anthem ringtone, the device that...
...Indeed, Nasty made a guest appearance on a remix of a 100 Gecs song called “Ringtone” last year....
...Mr Robertson only averted another cash flow crisis because of booming sales of a novelty telephone whose ringtone was the Culture Club hit Karma Chameleon....
...It forged a striking aesthetic style drawing on trashy dance music, bubblegum pop, J-pop, phone ringtones, white noise, video game jingles and critical theory....
...The EU’s product liability directive lays out the responsibilities on European manufacturers in the event of defects, but it was issued more than a decade before consumers could even download ringtones on...
...A portrait of the Queen on the front of her studio (and her “God Save the Queen” ringtone) may suggest conservative tendencies but images on the door of Andy Murray, Marilyn Monroe and a Shakespeare quote...
...Pick-up the phone in Ethiopia these days and you are greeted not by a ringtone but with a jingle urging the benefits of handwashing, social distancing and face masks....
...Mobile content boomed in the 3G era as the craze for novelty ringtones, such as the much maligned Crazy Frog, generated millions in profits for mobile content specialists....
...Its hook-laden songs are drawn from ringtones and computer game jingles, the peaks and drops of commercial dance music, electronic bubblegum pop — a deep dive into the flotsam and jetsam of the digital soundworld...
...Our protectiveness of music runs the gamut from “shushing” a concertgoer’s errant mobile ringtone to defending a superstar accused of sex crimes....
...Even when stationary at our desks, the distraction of ringtones and notifications can be overwhelming....
...HSBC: Ringtone Spontaneous shouts of joy and applause burst out across the trading floor at HSBC on Monday....
...I even made a separate ringtone so that I would know if she was calling — even at the expense of ruining my children’s bedtime routine because I would leave them with the television when she needed me.”...
...And there are few remaining social enforcement mechanisms more effective than the collective groan that greets an intruding ringtone once the house lights do down....
...Hamza Walker is talking about mobile phone ringtones....
...Chimes also serve as ringtones for the aircraft’s internal telephone system....
...Rex finds some ringtones triggering. Perhaps you would change yours? Anyway, it meant a lot to Rex to see where his mummy works. When I leave him at the minder’s and he does his puppy dog eyes . . ....
...the deepening shadows, we can hear the pfutt-pfutt of irrigation pumps over mustard fields, a gaggle of langur monkeys scavenging temple offerings, the calls of goatherds and goat-bells, the odd iPhone ringtone...
...You may be a remainer, you may have “Ode to Joy” as your ringtone, but one false word of compromise and you are at serious risk from friendly fire. We are talking blue on blue here....
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