think twice/ If na smoke you wan smoke say we dey tight." Other highlights include the acoustic-guitar-inflected "Piece of Me" — featuring English singer/songwriter Ella Mai — and the luxurious, hip-shaking "True Love," a platform for Nigerian performer Tay Iwar and Jama...
Many musical styles don’t travel well. You don’t hear soca on British pop radio; bhangra never broke big in the US. Even fairly mainstream genres of music fail to translate across the oceans: British indie remains only a cult attraction in the States, and, despite decades of publicity, ...
The first time you make your stand against your parent(s), you'll have to fight against the urge to avoid further conflict and cave in. For me, this didn't happen until my third year of college or so. Yes, I know that is a very, very long time. I regret not going to any of ...
I'm not doing any animated crab right now. I'm in the middle of my career, I can't disappear behind the facade." He [his agent] said, "Sam, you're broke." Wright worried that he'd be fired because the original concept for Sebastian looked nothing like him. About four years into...
She was one of very few people of colour in her area, raised by her mum, who is of English and Spanish ancestry, and stepdad, who is Bajan. (Her biological father is Jamaican.) Since she was young, people have seemed to stare at her – in part due to her skin colour but also ...
’” recalls Summers of the period in 1981 and ’82 leading up to the making ofSynchronicity. “A lot of bands were trying to be big in the UK, but the important thing for us was to make it in the U.S. We toured relentlessly and it was by the fourth album that it broke open....
“Immortals, hear, said Jove, and cease to jar! Tea must succeed to Wine as Peace to War. Nor by the grape let man be set at odds, but share in Tea, the nectar of the Gods.” Peter Antine Motteaux Factual origins of Tea
Jamaican ska to create what could be considered a fourth wave. Last summer, The Interrupters became the first female-fronted ska band to have a radio hit since No Doubt, when“She’s Kerosene”peaked at No. 4 on Alternative Songs in November. (“Gave You Everything,”also from their ...
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It is decidedly flying in the face of all the swooshy, soft, representative logos out there. But the way it acts as a placeholder for "whatever" is what makes it. It's very Santa™, so I gotta love it for that. Which is not to say I love it unconditionally. I'm uneasy about...