What to Know About Taylor Swifts New Album
Posted on August 12, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
On Sunday night, Taylor Swift won her 13th Grammy Award in the Best Pop Vocal Album category for Midnights, and announced during her acceptance speech, that she has a brand new album coming out. While Swift’s fans were expecting her to announce her fifth re-recorded album, Reputation (Taylor’s Version), the pop star shocked everyone by revealing a new project, her eleventh studio album.
In her speech, Swift said she wanted to thank fans by letting them in on a secret she’d been keeping for two years.
[Read More]What To Know: 'One Love' Armband Controversy at World Cup
Posted on August 12, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
The soccer captains of seven European teams were set to wear rainbow armbands during Qatar’s World Cup to promote a message of LGBTQ inclusion in a nation where homosexuality is illegal. But after facing heat from the sport’s ruling body FIFA, none of them will.
In a statement on Monday, England’s soccer governing body the Football Association and its Welsh equivalent joined the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, and Belgium to confirm that threats of sporting sanctions from FIFA left them no choice but to abandon the One Love campaign gesture they announced in September.
[Read More]When will women stop feeling entitled to boyfriends' money?
Posted on August 12, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
The concept of ‘culture of entitlement’ establishes that there are people have highly unreasonable expectations about what they deserve in life and according to Pulse Editor, Ayomide Tayo, in this article, many Nigerian millennials firmly sit in this category. Apart from the widespread type of entitlement which Ayomide says is symptomatic of millennials of both genders, it’d appear that there’s another type of entitlement, one which has trickled down into relationships and now puddles in the minds of ladies who have boyfriends.
[Read More]Why Big Tech May Never Recover in China
Posted on August 12, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
Even by its own standards, the tech sector has had an extraordinary year. The surges in valuation of firms such as Nvidia, Meta, and Amazon have elevated the tech sector's share within the S&P 500 to an unprecedented 30%. Amid this boom, it’s almost too easy to overlook the challenges faced by tech giants elsewhere, particularly in China.
Leading Chinese tech firms, notably Alibaba and Tencent, have seen their market capitalization plummet up to 75% from their peaks three years ago.
[Read More]'Love & Other Drugs' Review: Hathaway (and Boobs) Shine
Posted on August 11, 2024
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| Martina Birk
Since American movies tend to be prudish about sex, especially having bona fide stars appear to do it onscreen, Love & Other Drugs' desire to thoroughly acquaint us with a topless Anne Hathaway and a bottomless Jake Gyllenhaal is a welcome change. But at the risk of seeming ungrateful, the way this mashup of Love Story and Jerry Maguire brags about its characters' fantastic sex life is something of a turnoff.
[Read More]'Perfect' Engagement Photo Plan Goes Hilariously Awry
Posted on August 11, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
Everyone knows how it goes: One minute you’re saying yes to the man of your dreams, and the next champagne is drowning your face.
Staging an engagement photo for your dreamiest dream day is a whole operation, but rarely does it end with such an unplanned, magnificent result.
A viral photo of Collin Hewett recently celebrating his commitment to Alyssa Snodsmith began with all the trappings of an idyllic picnic-for-two, with a nearby photographer ready to capture it all.
[Read More]A Confederate Monument Solution, With Context
Posted on August 11, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
If you drive far enough down Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., past the statues of Confederate leaders General Robert E. Lee and President Jefferson Davis, you’ll find a bronze likeness of native son Arthur Ashe, the tennis legend and activist, holding books and a racket. A few miles to the east is the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial, not far from a statue of Abraham Lincoln.
This is how the former Confederate capital has dealt with the weight of history: not by removing troubling monuments, but by adding to them.
[Read More]Aaron Sorkin: Philip Seymour Hoffmans Death Saved 10 Lives
Posted on August 11, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
The creator of ‘The West Wing’ and the renowned actor shared a struggle with drug addiction. Sorkin remembers a performer who …
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All the records set by Asake's 'Lungu Boy'
Posted on August 11, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
On August 9, 2024, Asake released his third album 'Lungu Boy' which features Grammy-winning Nigerian superstar Wizkid, British rappers Central Cee and Stormzy, American superstar Travis Scott, and Brazilian singer Ludmila. The album has enjoyed domestic and international success as a testament to Asake's status as an era-defining superstar. Here are all the records set by Asake's 'Lungu Boy' 1. Biggest opening day on Spotify Nigeria ADVERTISEMENT
[Read More]Are Burna boy and Stefflon Don married already?
Posted on August 11, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
In the video which was posted on Monday, September 7, 2020, Burna Boy is seen repeatedly calling the rapper his wife. "Look what my wife got me mehn," he said making reference to a necklace he was putting on. "You see, you need a wife like my own, that's the problem," he added. ADVERTISEMENT
Prior to this video, there had been speculations about their engagement. Burna Boy and Stefflon Don [Credit - Guardian] Burna Boy and Stefflon Don [Credit - Guardian] Guardian They only recently celebrated their first anniversary.
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