#canadian female music artist

[yourdailyqueer]

Storry (Dina Koutsouflakis)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Pansexual

DOB: N/A 

Ethnicity: Lebanese, Greek

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer, songwriter, music producer, director, visual artist

[badgalbur]

My first show in Toronto is in 9 days!!! 🤗❤️ I’m performing live at the TD Music Hall on June 29th. Come thru to the beautiful venue & show your support for female artists in the 6ix. We’ll be putting on an amazing show for Canada Day weekend 🇨🇦🥳 You don’t wanna miss this ⭐️💋

[housefullofnuns]

I got the new cawston album in the mail!! And Chaney from House parties featured on one of the songs!! ❤️

[applepixls]

i found this lovely song that was released a few days ago and i really want more people to hear it. its a love letter to the person's mom and all shes done for her throughout their lives

please go listen to Mom's Eulogy by Nevaeh Dyson, it is genuinely so beautiful <3

https://open.spotify.com/track/1SOzqR55ZzW6XQK8zH7INL?si=733dc8bf05ac4cc6

[anlilmusic]

ANLIL Takes the Stage: Live at WFNM Showcase - RSVP NOW

We Found New Music (WFNM) is gearing up for yet another electrifying showcase on April 30th at Hotel Ziggy, and this time, all eyes and ears are eagerly awaiting the performance of ANLIL. With her captivating blend of dark pop and Middle Eastern influences, ANLIL promises to deliver a spellbinding experience that transcends boundaries and resonates deeply with listeners. Grant Owens, co-founder…

[blackmarket-playlists]

Playlists on Spotify

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Nelly Furtado - Maneater 2006

"Maneater" is a song by Canadian-Portugese singer Nelly Furtado from her third studio album, Loose. It was written by Furtado, Jim Beanz, and its producers Timbaland, and Danja. It's musical style and production were inspired by the Hall & Oates song of the same name and other music from the 1980s.

Outside North America, "Maneater" became one of Furtado's most popular singles, topping the charts in the UK and peaking within the top ten of the charts across much of Europe and Australia.

"Maneater" was nominated for a 2006 MTV Europe Music Award for Best Song. It was also awarded a 2007 NRJ Music Award for Best International Song. At the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, Furtado was nominated in the category of Female Artist of the Year for "Maneater" and "Say It Right".

"Maneater" recieved a total of 68,2% yes votes!

[livelybutterflyy]

jellys journal ୨୧

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hello !!  you may call me either sooyoung or jelly , whichever you prefer more . i’m 14 years old and korean-canadian ,  i’m a lover of film , music , books and writing ! 

My favourite films (aka top 4 on letterboxd & whats bubbling under)

Bottoms (2023, directed by Emme Seligman) , Little women (2019 , directed by Greta Gerwig) , bodies bodies bodies (2023 , directed by Halina Reijin) , The ballad of songbirds and snakes (2023 , directed by Francis Lawrence) , To all the boys i’ve loved before (2018 , directed by Susan Johnson) , Spider-man : across the spiderverse (2023 , directed by Justin K thompson ,Kemp Powers & Joaquim Dos santos)

My favourite artists : tomorrow x together , taylor swift, loossemble , yves , le sserafim , olivia rodrigo , sabrina carpenter , illit , artms , chuu , katseye & izna 

my favourite books : these violent delights (chloe gong) , the poppy war (rf kuang) , i hope this doesn’t find you (ann liang) , Jade city ( Fonda Lee) & Shades of magic (Ve Schwab)

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𝒊𝒇 𝒊 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒕 , 𝒊 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒕 : 𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓯𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 ~~

I have known about shifting since 2020 , my first dr was a genshin impact dr , did it for like 2 months and gave up . Came back to it in the summer of 2022 with (again) a Genshin Impact dr.  i’m very excited to share these personal things about my drs with you all

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Own gg reality  : circa 2018 , this dr starts off as me living my best life at a london arts boarding school , until 2019 when i become a trainee again and re-debut in 2020 ! 

group introduction

group members

drself introduction

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Better cr reality  : circa 2024, ultimate kpop fan (of my own group) , investigative journalist & creative writer,  head soccer player and spiderman , my partner (spiderwoman) is like.. reallyyy annoying tho

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Tomorrow x together reality : circa 2019 , one of two female members of txt , along with kim chaewon , former member of IOI (along with chae) , having the 4th gen it boy & girl in the same group is crazy (me & yj

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Katseye reality : circa 2023 , youngest member of the group ( I EAT FIRST.) , former participant on ILAND , GIRLS PLANET999 & R U NEXT? Current participant of DREAM ACADEMY & #willbefirst

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Actress reality : circa ??? , ultimate it girl , model & actress , youngest person to Ever complete the EGOT & the face of every magazine you’ll see ୨୧ 

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Here’s a list of all my other drs !  (its coming , i swear)

Hey ୨୧ if you see this , thank you for reading through all this it truly means so much to me ! 

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[camisoledadparis]

THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … January 3

1752 – Johannes von Müller, Swiss historian, born (d.1809); Müller's Geschichten der Schweizer (Swiss History), a project that occupied most of his life and took him more than forty years to complete. Müller's tome (18 volumes in the French translation) is now considered hopelessly unreliable, even though in its day it stirred Swiss nationalism and had profound influence.

Müller's place here is due to his favorite extracurricular activity - writing love letters to Charles Victor de Bonstetten, a young, devastatingly handsome Swiss writer. Bonstetten was also the object of desire for Thomas Gray, the English poet. Müller's love letters, among the loveliest ever penned, were published in 1835, twenty-five years after his death. Long before then, however, Goethe had gone on record declaring Müller's sexuality.

1757 – In England, the 18-year-old son of Lord Denbigh successfully resists an attempt to extort money from him on grounds of his being a sodomite.

1948 - Sex Researcher Alfred Kinsey revealed a high incidence of same-sex acts among men. Behavior in the Human Male is published, in which the researcher concludes that 37% of American males have had at least one gay sexual experience to the point of orgasm. Five years later Kinsey publishes his report on women, which puts the comparable figure at 13%.

1964 – Bruce LaBruce is a Canadian writer, filmmaker, photographer and underground gay porn director based in Toronto, Ontario.

LaBruce was born Bryan Bruce in Tiverton, Ontario, and wrote for Cineaction magazine, curated by Robin Wood, his teacher. He first gained public attention with the publication of the queer punk zine J.D.s, which he co-edited with G.B. Jones. He currently writes and photographs for a variety of publications including Vice, Nerve.com and BlackBook magazine, and has made a number of films which merged the artistic techniques of independent film with gay pornography.

He has also previously been a columnist for the Canadian music magazine Exclaim! and Toronto's eye weekly, and he was a contributing editor and photographer for many years at New York's index magazine. He has also been published in Toronto Life and the National Post as well as the UK Guardian. His movie, Otto, or, Up With Dead People debuted at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. L.A. Zombie was banned from the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2010 because, in the opinion of Australian censors, it would have been refused classification. However, the film was subsequently able to screen at OutTakes, a New Zealand lesbian and gay international film festival, in May 2011.

In March 2011, LaBruce directed a performance of Arnold Schoenberg's opera Pierrot Lunaire at the Hebbel am Ufer Theatre in Berlin. As one no doubt assumes, this iteration of the opera included gender diversity, castration scenes and dildos, as well as a female to male transgender Pierrot.

[cyarsk52-20]

On Kendrick Lamar’s GNX, The Hardest Diss Song Is A History Lesson

By Lawrence BurneyNovember 27, 2024

Taylor Hill

Kendrick Lamar hurled plenty of damning judgments in Drake’s direction throughout the course of this year. He’s spoken about the Canadian star’s history with women, his shallow, stream-seeking music, his siphoning off of young artists’ untapped energy to stay relevant. A compelling case could be made for each of those accusations, though their stench has seemed to largely fade with time. The most pointed and persistent of these indictments, however, is the one that was introduced in “Euphoria,” sculpted the shape of “Not Like Us,” and is now the driving force behind the sonic direction of Lamar’s newest album, GNX: the idea that what separates Kendrick and Drake, the two faces of hip-hop’s Millennial generation, is Drake’s perceived refusal of a spiritual — and maybe even ancestral — obligation to contribute and call back to a specified cultural lineage that precedes him.

If the strategy to win this feud was to point out how Brother Graham has had to globetrot and collect collaborators to substitute for his lack of a genuine, longstanding connection to a community, then it makes sense that Kendrick has concluded his biggest year in almost a decade by continuing to flex how strong his arm is from Southern to Northern Californiathroughout GNX. He pulls in artists who are buzzing at a ground level on his home turf —Dody6, AzChike, Peysoh, Lefty Gunplay, Hitta J3, and more. Mustard and Sounwave lend the West Coast’s resonant, playful bounce to a fair share of the production; the late LA rapper Drakeo The Ruler’s signature technique is resurrected and used as a roadmap. But beyond his weaponized use of a hyperlocal focus and regional displays of expression, Lamar also tries to emphasize the space between him and Drake by drawing parallels between his forebears and himself on the already-divisive “Reincarnated.” Produced by Sounwave and Jack Antonoff, the song is a reimagining of 2Pac’s “Made Niggaz” in which the Compton rapper channels Black musical icons from the early twentieth century to the 90s of his childhood to the present day.

The first verse appears to reference John Lee Hooker, the Mississippi-born blues singer and guitarist who made himself a larger-than-life fixture in American music between the 40s and 60s. Kendrick gives a slice of the artist’s life, accurately detailing how Hooker, as a 14-year-old, was kicked out his reverend father’s house for having a guitar; the blues, at that time, was a secular taboo for religious folks. He follows Hooker’s progression from an ambitious teen, to a breakout star in the Detroit scene in the 40s to one of the most heralded musicians of the 20th Century, his music eventually used as a faceless source of soul for White America to draw from commercially and culturally. In 1997, four years before Hooker’s death, the Chicago Tribune paid him a visit at his sprawling ranch home in the San Francisco area. They made mention of the singer having white standout artists like the Rolling Stones as the opening act on his tours and Eric Clapton in his backing band in the ‘60s and his restoration to the public consciousness in the ‘80s thanks to acolytes like Bonnie Raitt. Outside of his window, a couple of peacocks frolic; contractors are carving a guitar out of white stone; he has eight cars. “Not bad for the son of Mississippi sharecroppers,” they note. Assessing the situation on “Reincarnated,” Lamar wraps up Hooker’s story from the blues legend’s POV: “But I manipulated power as I lied to the masses/Died with money, gluttony was too attractive.”

In the song’s second verse, Kendrick goes into the story of an angelic-voiced female star of the Chitlin Circuit era — likely Billie Holiday or Dinah Washington. “Had everything I wanted, but I couldn’t escape addiction/Heroin needles had me in fetal position, restricted,” he says from her perspective, detailing the dilemma in this chapter. Lamar’s narration in this part of the song brings to mind the Tom Surgal-directed documentary, Fire Music, from 2021, which goes through the evolution of free jazz, an avant-garde iteration of the music that gave rise to genre titans like Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, and Don Cherry. Though the majority of the film is spent outlining how this wave of artists innovated by bringing jazz back to its roots as improvisational Black music, ample space is given to honoring the artists who pushed themselves to the brink of insanity, addiction, and bad health in pursuit of their dreams — many never making enough money to fully sustain themselves and suffering an early demise.

To close the track, Lamar inserts himself into this timeline of cautionary tales. Like he’s done many times in the past (DAMN., in many ways, drew from the Hebrew Israelite doctrine that says Black people need to get right with God in order to rid themselves of the curse that keeps us in precarious situations), he personalizes the battle between good and evil here. In a conversation with God, Lamar takes on the role of Lucifer (or reveals that he seems himself as Lucifer sometimes), a disgraced musician who got too greedy along the way. Still in an internal battle of who he really is, God reminds him: “every individual is only a version of you.” With this reasoning, you could argue that Kendrick is just the latest host of a spirit that’s traveled through all these people at one point in time. Will he—like Hooker, in his framing—get too comfortable being rich and a celebrated figure for all American people instead of speaking to the specific community he comes from? Will he, like Holiday or Washington, fall victim to a detrimental habit? Or will he be in a perpetual state of limbo, not knowing where to stand?

In a literary feat, Lamar pulls in history, his own experiences, and artistic forms of the past to place himself within the pantheon of troubled Black musicians who stumbled their way through fame, often to varying results of ruin. And though most have agreed on it being executed properly on a story level, the divide is driven by his delivery. Kendrick Lamar is cut from the cloth of capital-C conceptual rappers—Nas rapping from the perspective of a gun, Lupe Fiasco personifying the streets, Immortal Technique chronicling a horrifying night of gang initiation. The kinds of artists who not only find pride in being able to wield technically-sound raps, but who also like to flex their depth and intellect and leave a lasting impression on how you perceive the world around you. Before “Reincarnated,” he did something similar in 2022’s “The Heart Pt. 5", channeling the spirit of Nipsey Hussleto assure the slain LA rapper’s loved ones that he fulfilled his purpose and that, though he wasn’t prepared to go, he is at peace. It’s the type of earnestness Drake and rap fans who just want to have a good time can snicker at.

Even on “Reincarnated” Kendrick is so passionate about telling an intergenerational epic that his voice — even though being uttered in 2Pac’s cadence — feels more akin to Eminem’s squawk rather than Pac’s infinitely cool poise. There’s also a more than justifiable fatigue some may feel from having to hear Lamar depict himself as God’s anointed messenger time after time while still partaking in some of the infractions he accuses Drake of. And for that, many may view “Reincarnated” as a miss, the type of dorky theater that reads better on paper than it plays through speakers. But, I’d argue, for Kendrick, identifying himself as someone in the line of Black Americans who sacrificed it all to be heard is the real win in this instance. And, to a greater extent, in doing so, he highlights how Drake—too far removed from the essence; too concerned with the wrong shit, thus trapped in a cycle of listlessness—does not (or cannot) feel the same.

In 1963, the iconic poet, writer, and freedom fighter Amiri Baraka (then going by his birth name, LeRoi Jones) released his seminal book Blues People, a work that masterfully tracked the evolution of the blues from plantation spirituals to big city music-hall anthems in the Northeast and Midwest. But, in laying out the music’s trajectory, Baraka also told the story of Black folks in America; how their subjugation, commitment to liberation, and co-existence with people whose society thrived off of extracting from them all played a role in how Black American music came to be. When the book was republished in 1999, Baraka said something profound in the introduction about his initial motivation to write the book. Through research, he wrote, he’d realized that Black music “was an orchestrated, vocalized, hummed, chanted, blown, beaten, scatted, corollary confirmation of the history. And that one could go from one to the other, actually, from the inside to the outside, or reverse, and be talking about the same things,” he wrote. “That the music was explaining the history as the history was explaining the music. And that both were expressions and reflections of a people.”

Whether its flying the African American flag in the video for “squabble up,” making sure “Not Like Us” was a West Coast anthem, embracing his home state’s buzzing artists throughout his album, or inserting himself into a narrative he knows he belongs to, Kendrick Lamar wants us to know that, whether we like it or not, he is beholden to his people. Even if he stumbles in his execution. And the fact that Drake’s most recent rebuttal to that onslaught is suing UMG for allegedly incorporating foul play to help spread Kendrick’s message and accusing his opponent of defamation instead of taking his L on the chin, only drives the point home: he isn’t acting like one of us.

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I know it’s been over a week but I got a feeling that this song has the potential of becoming the greatest songs ever made in this decade

I remember listening to this and afterwards I was left speechless. It was mind blowing good

[papirouge]

The discussion of aubrey's blackness has nothing to do with him being mixed, being biracial, or being light skinned. It has to do with the fact that a mixed Canadian boy, raised by a white mom in an upper middle class Toronto, has crafted a persona for himself emulating and glorifying (some of the worst parts of) black american rap culture, a persona that he wears like costume to make himself appear "more black" and thus "more legitimate" to the industry he is a part of.

He wants all the benefits of blackness while simultaneously engaging in anti-blackness and colourism. Yes, PLENTY of other rappers do the exact same thing (perpetuate anti-blackness and colourism). But drake paraded his father's existence around as a way to make sure people knew he was A Real Negro™. He affects a blaccent that we KNOW he doesn't actually have. He truly uses his blackness as a tool for success and takes it off when it's not beneficial. That's not something fully black people have the luxury of. When you get down to the brass tacks, he is something of a culture vulture because of this. Kendrick recognizes that drake is black, but that he's only black when it suits him and THAT is the problem. That's why people want to "revoke his black card" and it's why Ken says he personally takes issue with drake using n*gga. People are misinterpreting this as him coming for drake for being mixed or light skinned, for him not being really black. The truth is he is coming for drake for being someone who has crafted a persona of blackness for himself and used the clout of other black artists in the industry to build himself‚ his clout‚ and his reputation as a black artist up while being both anti-black and mixed. His work with other black rappers (who rap about lived experience as opposed to emulating it) feels like colonization instead of collaboration. It's similar to the kind of heat another artist caught not long ago: being black when it benefited them but '''opting out''' (if you will) when it didn't.

Mixed people will always have a seat at the table— Kendrick even extends that offer to drake's son, meaning he recognizes mixed people's blackness. The real issue is that no one likes it when mixed people are anti-black and engage in misogynoir, but then profit off of their blackness in the same breath. And it feels a bit disingenuous to ignore that valid complaint and instead make it about *black people trying to police who the Real Blacks are*.

You're message is so confusing anon because you start by saying that Drake's blackness isn't the issue then go on to enumerate issues related to with whiteness : "mixed Canadian mom" "suburban white mom"

Sorry but pulling out a persona is a thing for a bunch of Black rap artists - male or female. For example Megan the Stallion comes from a regular family. She wasn't in that hood rap shit and yet started to mingle with pos like Tory Lanez, when her initial social background would never make her meet men like that. Mixed/light skin rap girl hang around (dark skin) hood chick all the time and I see no one seethe against them of performing Blackness or pulling out persona to appear "more Black" (i.e Ice Spice)

Unambitious rap artists surround themselves with "bad guys" for additional street cred all the times and no one says shit.

But it's a problem for Drake precisely because he's not fully Black, so there will always be a suspicion

And I don't get the sudden gatekeeping of USAmerican rap culture when US rappers are themselves leeches to other musical scene and foreign music genre & culture to spice up their music 🤔

So getting mad at Drake because he.....fakes his accent (the only criticism that's not found in plentiful of other rappers) sounds super silly to me.

Him being mixed is definitely an aggravating factor for all this criticism and I'm tired of people acting like it wasn't lol

[21fallouts-atmychemicaldisco]

An insane person's recap of this year

I'm doing this so I myself can make sense of what the HECK went on and HOW this year went by so quick. The order is bound to be messed up but hey, I tried

Israel keeps bombing Palestine

MatPat fucking left us

New Green Day album

TwoMad fucking DIES because of OverWatch 2 (HUH)

Taylor Swift wants a Starbucks: The Twitter drama _She tries to sue someone who apparently is a teen

Creepypasta/Slenderverse community petty drama

The fuckass Stanley cup craze and overconsumerism stuff

Dubai chocolate

Eurovision 2024 I think _People being angry about Eurovision kicking out a Russian contestant because of the Ukraine-Russia war but leaving an Israeli contestant despite Israel not even being European -Joost fandom because he got unfairly kicked out of Eurovision 2024

Wake up in the morning saying FUCK P DIDDY

Israel keeps bombing Palestine

The original song for Ulterior Motives is found and everyone is groaning in disappointment (it wasn't a chips bag)

Kendrick VS. Drake beef that ended in the former winning and getting the entire nation to jam to a song calling Drake a Drake _Kendrick accidentally wrote the anthem of the year considering everyone is gonna get outed

BBL Drizzaaaaaaaaaay _Legit everyone hopped on the Drake diss train even KANYE apparently?

Israel keeps bombing Palestine

Clancy gets delayed, was hoping for it to be delayed to include a Drake diss but whatever

I see your problem is your proctologist got both hands on your shoulders while you're bottomless _I wasn't there for the release livestream I had to see it 4 hours later I was miserable

Israel keeps bombing Palestine

KARMA'S A BITCH, I SHOULD'VE KNOWN BETTER

Sex Offender Summer

Here are some of the people outed in no particular order but ordered as neatly as I remember

Drake as mentioned before

P Diddy as mentioned before

KonekoKitten is outed and apparently he sucked as a creator too

Dr. Disrespect is outed and that's the reason he was banned apparently

Kris Tyson is outed and managed to set back the community like lightyears back in the public eye, I am SO sorry guys __And because of that Mr. Beast drama ensues but that's for a bit later

CodyKo gets outed but what did we expect he's a glorified frat guy

Melanie Martinez allegations are brought back up again

Rumors of Youtooz twenty øne piløts Blurryface era plushies

Chappell Roan

Sabrina Carpenter

Israel keeps bombing Palestine

Pierce The Veil tour or something

JoJo Siwa gets drunk in Disney Land, onstage, grabs her female weinis, and something I don't know imma come back like a boomerang

brat summer _A lot of cool artists were featured on that other release of brat

BRENDON URIE FUNKO POP

Israel keeps bombing Palestine

Inside Out 2 drops and the brainrot content arms are cashing OUT

Kendrick drops a music video of him dissing a Canadian on 4th of July (like the Fall Out Boy song woah whaaat), I love patriotism

Katy's to the left, ripping my style smh _143 by Katy Perry or whatever, everyone shits on Woman's World because of it as a song but also because of Katy's standing on the whole Dr. Luke thing

Kesha drops Joyride on 4th of July too GOD IT WAS SO GOOD

Hawk Tuah spit on every person who worked hard to get where they are and let's give a platform to just anybody

That drama with that Australian but not actually Australian TikTok singer dude…whatever happened

Israel keeps bombing Palestine

Mr. Breast walking human rights violation _Enter the Pegasus memes

Weezer plushies

THIS IS MY FIRST VIDEO ON INSTAGRAM

Happy 15 years Slenderman thank you for this free film college full ride scholarship

Happy 15 years Marble Hornets thank you for the OCD diagnosis

Deadpool & Wolverine comes out and I haven't been able to catch a break from all the smutfics I've BLOCKED EVERY SINGLE TAG PLEASE LEAVE ME ALO

Olympics opening disaster

Olympics swimming disaster, people decided to shit in the place where it was held as protest…I think

Animal Crossing: Pocket Down shutting down because Nintendo fuck Nintendo all my homies hate Nintendo

Dress To Impress or whatever and am I the only one who has insane beef with this game?? Like Fashion Famous you will ALWAYS live in my heart

Wait they don't hate this trend like I hate it

CaseOh we love you CaseOh

Saw comeback for some reason I think

BRENDON URIE FUNKO POP

Gravity Falls comeback for some reason I think

Roblox keeps digging its own grave with awful updates yadda yadda

The Academy Is…, Gym Class Heroes and Cobra Starship wanna tour soon

Sprunki happens and the internet decides to doxx a 15 year old screw you guys

Fall Out Boy eras tour? I think??

Israel keeps bombing Palestine

Terrifier 3

Trump gets shot and people start making fanart of it _Which one of you made the Airy HFJOne fanart of that I love you whoever you are _And the C!JSchlatt one

Nijisanji drama what's new

Katy Perry scissors a girl on stage and also doesn't perform "flop Woman's World"

Joker copies Fall Out Boy and proceeds to flop tremendously I'm sorry Lady Gaga

Apt. by ROSÉ and Bruno Mars

When We Were Young Fest 2024 weee woooo TAKE ME TO VEGAS NOW

Oh yeah Trump TRUMP IS GONNA BE PRESIDENT AGAIN HELP HELP HELP HELP NO GOD HELP NO

BRENDON URIE FUNKO POP

TikTok USA ban coming soon apparently but Trump says no I will save TikTok or whatever idk I'm not red white and blue

Liam Payne DIES (RIP to him, the news genuinely broke me)

Tyler, The Creator drops CHROMAKOPIA which I have yet to listen to but I will get to it trust me -Panic! At The Disco is GONNA BE BACK??? AND WILL PERFORM A FEVER YOU CAN'T SWEAT OUT IN ITS ENTIRETY WITH THE ORIGINAL BAND MEMBERS minus Brent SOMEONE TAKE ME TO VEGAS

Israel keeps bombing Palestine

Everyone is making fun of Spotify Wrapped

Oh hey My Chemical Romance is gonna tour again

Dan and Phil I think

THE WHOLE EMO QUARTET IS GONNA BE ACTIVE _no but seriously imagine thi

Mouthwashing or something

Jake Paul VS. Mike Tyson why did we let a Viner get to this level

BOB BRYAR DIES TOO????? (RIP to him, absolutely insane news)

Danganronpa comeback think??

Moana 2 weeee

Wicked comes out _The YouTube Shorts and the comments under are so ridiculously funny oh my Lord

JoJo Siwa convinces lesbians to unlesbian because of how bad her music is

Israel keeps bombing Palestine

Luigi Mangione does us all a favor _Apparently he was listening to brat before he killed the CEO, and also he's a Killjoy

SYRIA LIBERATION LET'S GOOOO I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SINCE I WAS 4

President of Korea tries to pass martial law (??) and gets frEAKING IMPEACHED _"North Korea's future seems rather more predictable." WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED

Apparently the DogPack404 videos were slander?? Or something?? I don't know I gave up on the Mr. Breast drama

Apparently there's this app for like podcasts/text to speech or whatever that used AI to scrape off AO3 fan fictions and list it there with no credit to the authors and everyone was PISSED, dunno much but there's that

Israel keeps bombing Palestine

Arcane Season 2

THE LINEEEE

The Game Awards _did i disappOINT YOU WILL THEY STILL LET ME OVE- _CASEOHHHHHH

Kojima fard

The Astro Bot Awards

Sonic The Hedgehog 3 featuring Shadow The EDGEhog

SQUID GAMES (season 2)

Liam Payne's death was apparently negligent homicide FUCK THIS WORLD FUCK ALL OF YOU

twenty | one | pilots 15 years of Self-Titled awesome

Vexbolt mass unfollowing

Israel keeps bombing and colonizing not just Palestine, but Lebanon too. Cease fire now

I definitely missed a TON of stuff but hey, I tried

[abwwia]

Joni Mitchell

Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell CC (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter. As one of the most influential singer-songwriters to emerge from the 1960s folk music circuit, Mitchell became known for her personal lyrics and unconventional compositions which grew to incorporate pop and jazz elements. She has received many accolades, including eleven Grammy Awards and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. Rolling Stone called her "one of the greatest songwriters ever", and AllMusic has stated, "Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century."

[mybeingthere]

Mouna Rebeiz paints music.

Mouna Rebeiz is a Lebanese-Canadian painter based in London. She grew up surrounded by musicians, painters and poets, who influenced her art. Fascinated by human psyche, she studied psychology at the Sorbonne and at Saint Joseph University in Beirut.

She travelled extensively, and then in 1995 met Alix de la Source, a lecturer at the Louvre specialising in 18th-century painting., who taught her about the techniques of the great masters. She perfected her mastery of patinas in the Renaissance courses, and studied with Abraham Pincas, a painter and teacher at ENSBA Paris, and with Mohamed El Rawas, a Lebanese painter and engraver teaching at the fine arts school in Beirut.

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Over the course of a long career, the American singer Marlena Shaw moved from jazz to soul and back again, searching for settings that would best enhance her fine voice. In later decades she commanded the allegiance of the British fans of the rare-groove movement, who rediscovered and particularly cherished her version, released in 1969, of a much recorded song called California Soul.

Shaw, who has died aged 81, made her first stage appearance at the Apollo theatre in Harlem, New York, when she was 10 years old. Billie Holiday was still alive and Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington were other inescapable influences on a jazz-inclined teenage singer seemingly destined to work with big bands in dancehalls and smaller groups in nightclubs. In her later years she became familiar with the sound of hip-hop artists basing their hits on samples from her singles and album tracks.

Shaw’s recording of California Soul, a song written by Valerie Simpson and Nickolas Ashford, popped up in Gang Starr’s Check the Technique and Stereo MCs’ Sofisticated. It was also used in American TV commercials for Dockers shoes, KFC fast food and Dodge trucks, and in 2022 it was awarded an official gold record by the British Phonographic Industry.

Born Marlina Burgess in New Rochelle, New York, she showed musical talent from an early age and was given her first opportunity to take the stage in 1952 by her uncle, Jimmy Burgess, a trumpeter and bandleader who was performing at the Apollo. It was through his tuition that she acquired her understanding of jazz phrasing, while her mother encouraged her to study music at New York State Teachers’ College in Potsdam, a small town close to the Canadian border.

But she failed to complete the course, marrying young and bringing up five children before picking up the threads of a performing career that had barely begun. There were more false starts. In 1963 she missed an appearance at the Newport jazz festival with the trumpeter Howard McGhee after an argument with the musicians, and an attack of nerves ruined an audition with the great talent scout John Hammond, who had signed Holiday and Bob Dylan, among many others.

But in 1966, while singing at the Playboy Club in Chicago, she was signed up by the locally based Chess label, the home of many popular soul and R&B performers. Her first single was a vocal version of Joe Zawinul’s gospel-style tune Mercy Mercy Mercy, which had been an instrumental hit for Cannonball Adderley.

In 1968 Shaw toured Europe with Count Basie’s orchestra, involving the bandleader in an amusing routine as she improvised new words to Won’t You Come Home, Bill Bailey? It was while appearing with Basie at the Sands hotel in Las Vegas that she decided to make the gambling capital her home, moving there in 1970.

A contract with the Blue Note label led to a series of albums in a smooth soul-jazz style, including one recorded live at the Montreux jazz festival. The title and content of another album, Who Is This Bitch, Anyway?, indicated a desire to challenge the then-current popularity of the sexually explicit singer Millie Jackson.

A move to the Columbia label in 1977 saw her transforming Carole King and Gerry Goffin’s Go Away Little Girl, originally recorded by Bobby Vee, from a lovelorn ballad into a statement of female independence introduced by a lengthy rap directed at a feckless, workshy lover: “I figure if I’ve got to get up and go to work every day, then every able-bodied in the household is supposed to get up and go … If for some reason you feel that you can no longer be the man you were at the beginning of our relationship, then I’ve got this one thing to lay on you, my sweet. Go away, little boy …” But eventually the attitude softens, and after a seduction scene the song fades out on a note of surrender: “You think you can get a job by Thursday? You promise? Then you might as well stay … Don’t go away … ”

It became one of her most popular songs in live performance, the prefatory rap acquiring extra twists, turns, and layers of sardonic saltiness. At the New Morning club in Paris in 2010, the man in the song had become someone who had picked her up at an airport giftshop, its final scene acted out with elaborately dramatised hand gestures, smiles, laughter and a winning command of her audience.

An elegant presence on the concert stage, she sang with a symphony orchestra in New Zealand and toured for four years with Sammy Davis Jr. There were further recordings for the Verve, Concord and South Bay labels, and in 1989 a duet with Joe Williams, another former Basie singer, on an update of the old Louis Jordan song Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby earned her a Grammy nomination.

Shaw ceased all professional activity in 2016, retiring to her home in Las Vegas. Her survivors include her daughters April and Marla, a son, Robert, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

🔔 Marlena Shaw (Marlina Burgess), singer, born 22 September 1942; died 19 January 2024

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