Favourite

Linda Ronstadt – Long, Long TimeWhen Linda Ronstadt belts those high notes in the last verse, knees buckle and the flood begins. Couldn’t listen to it for a long, long time after a particularly brutal betrayal. Crushing ... BarerBearAlanis Morrissette – You Oughta KnowThe fury of it spoke volumes when I was dealing with a painful break up from someone who cheated on me, broke my heart, but wanted to stay friends. morgarfThe Waterboys – RagsIt’s not subtle and it sure isn’t a “slowie”. Mike Scott chucks everything in here…

Whitney Houston – It’s Not Right But It’s OkayI never went to J-school, but I learned everything anyone needs to know about how to be an investigative reporter from Detective Whitney Houston. In just four short minutes, this song describes our hero’s Pulitzer-level investigation into a deadbeat lover: she looks through his phone, digs through the trash, and literally finds the receipts to prove once and for all that he’s a filthy, lying cheater. That’s a bummer, of course, but in the grand tradition of divas such as…

According to the report, the new feature will allow users to choose their favourite contacts and let them manually add the ones they care about most, and easily access them through a dedicated filter. Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new ‘favourite contacts filter’ feature, allowing users to prioritise their conversations and offer greater control and efficiency in the messaging experience.The new feature spotted by WABetaInfo mentioned that it will appear with a dedicated chat filter in a…

Monica HeiseyThe author of Really Good, Actually on Being Alive from the musical Company, by Stephen SondheimMy favourite love song is maybe a little untraditional in that it’s not addressed to a specific love object. I’m sorry to say it is also a show tune, but at least it is a show tune from the best to ever do them, Stephen Sondheim. Being Alive, from the musical Company, is sung by Robert, a 35-year-old bachelor and romance sceptic, whose married friends have ambushed him on his birthday to insist he find a partner…

Threads app was launched in 2023 as Twitter rival (now X) which gained much popularity in the initial months. However, the app lacked many features that users deemed necessary and they have been demanding many of these for a long time. One such feature is the “bookmark feature” which lets users save posts and reels on Instagram. Now, Threads revealed that the app has started testing the bookmark feature for their app. Notably, after the initial surge to 100 million and an equally surprising fall thereafter, Meta CEO Mark…

Last year, we saw an amazing number of changes being rolled out to WhatsApp. One of the biggest transformations of the app was the introduction of Channels. While the company is still working on many new features, it is rumored that WhatsApp may introduce a Favourite Contacts feature just like we create favourites contacts to make speed dial or quick calls. This new feature of WhatsApp aims to enhance the users' calling experience via the app. Know more about this feature and when it will be officially rolled out to all…

Image Source : FILE WhatsApp to bring favourite contacts feature to quickly place calls WhatsApp, a Meta-owned instant messaging platform is reportedly working on a new feature which will allow users to select 'favourite contacts' for a more convenient call placement on iOS. The new feature has been intended to improve overall accessibility by providing a quick and…

Kylie Minogue’s number 1 album ‘Tension’ has been out for just over four months and there’s rumours that a repack is on the way later this year. The album housed the huge global smash ‘Padam Padam’, which gave Kylie her first Top 10 hit in the UK in years. She scored another Top 20 hit with title track ‘Tension’ and fan favourite ‘Hold On To Now’ has garnered plenty of support even if the song didn’t translate into a chart hit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Cnazi_Fi0 This Wednesday, Kylie will release…

Dutch author Lucas Rijneveld (formerly Marieke Lucas Rijneveld) won the International Booker prize with his debut, The Discomfort of Evening, narrated by a farmer’s daughter coaxed into sex games with her siblings after their brother dies in a freak accident. There are scenes involving pilfered vials of bull sperm and an insemination gun; the protagonist, aged 12 by the end of the book, fantasises about the tongue of a local vet who tells her how pretty she is. For overseas readers, it evoked “Ian Macabre”-era McEwan, but…

My Heavenly Favourite, the second novel from acclaimed Dutch author Lucas Rijneveld, belongs to a tiny, controversial subgenre: novels about child sex abuse rendered in exquisite prose. It is all the more transgressive in that it’s narrated by the abuser, who addresses his victim in an incantatory, unflinchingly graphic second-person rant about his eternal love. Such a book has to clear a very high bar not to seem like a cynical exercise. Rijneveld’s novel leaps effortlessly over, with room to spare.The narrator is a…