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Will Smith's first album since 2005, 'Based on a True Story,' is full of self-help talk and a cocky sense of self-forgiveness ...
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He suggested a title: “Killing Me Softly with His Blues.” Over the next few days, Gimbel helped her flesh out the lyrics, asking her questions about where she was sitting at the Troubadour and ...
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Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: a beautifully written triumph
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Lady Gaga’s “How Bad Do U Want Me” Lyrics Are So Taylor Swift-Coded
In the track “How Bad Do U Want Me,” Gaga goes full-on ’80s prom ballad, even eliciting comparisons to Taylor Swift. In the flirty bop, Gaga taunts her beau — likely her fiancé ...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Aims to ‘Write a Wrong’ in ‘Dream Count’
DREAM COUNT, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “Dream Count,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s first novel in a dozen years, is dreamy indeed: an accumulation of scenes and sensations, cloudlike in ...