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Where The Crawdads Sing, the bestselling book of 2019, presents a fantasy of grit and purity: a young white girl, abandoned by her family in the 1950s, learns to fend for herself in a North Carolina marsh, goes from illiterate to acclaimed scientific author without ever abandoning her communion with the land, and finds love as an outcast so suspicious the town assumes she killed her former lover. The debut novel by Delia Owens, a former scientist in her mid-70s known for years of controversial (and possibly violent)…

With three months left on his Mainstream Sellout Tour, Machine Gun Kelly made a stop at home this week to spend some quality time with his daughter.MGK took to Instagram on Thursday to post a video of himself and daughter Cassie performing a rendition of Beyoncé’s Jay-Z featuring 2003 single “Crazy in Love.” The clip features the rapper-turned-rocker rapping Hov’s verse, before passing the mic to Cassie, who sings Bey’s hook.“Parenting,” Kelly captioned the post, writing, “My daughter got next,” on the video. The video…

Sony Music, which manages the rights to Michael Jackson’s catalog, has pulled three of the late star’s songs from streaming services, American Songwriter reports.The songs in question, “Monster” featuring 50 Cent, “Keep Your Head Up,” and “Breaking News,” all appeared on Jackson’s 2010 posthumous project Michael. As a result, only seven songs from the 10-track album are now available on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.A spokesperson for Jackson’s official website told the outlet the move “had nothing to do with…

You may think Shang Chi doesn’t have any superpowers, but anyone who saw actor Simu Liu appear on Kimmel Live last night knows that’s wrong. Turns out that as well as being the greatest martial artist in the MCU, the guy also has a magic set of pipes. And the boy band propers to go with it. Boy band sensation @SimuLiu serenades @ChelseaHandler! pic.twitter.com/OUwDZzv9CG You may think Shang Chi doesn’t have any superpowers, but anyone who saw actor Simu Liu appear on Kimmel Live last night…

The wait is finally over. After teasing more than three months ago that her new song “Carolina” would be coming “soon,” Taylor Swift has at last dropped the full original song she penned for the Where the Crawdads Sing film soundtrack. Before its Friday release, “Carolina” has been slowly making its way to viewers in bits and pieces sprinkled across various trailers for the film that stars Daisy Edgar-Jones. Swift’s nature-driven lyrics are emblematic of Jones’ character, Kya, who learns to live by herself in…

Arthur Brown, singer, songwriterI’d always loved flames. I don’t know if it’s anything to do with moving to London at the end of the war, when I was three and the East End was on fire. If you look into the centre of a blaze, you get a stillness in yourself. It’s like meditation, and that inspired me.Later, after I moved to Leeds, I liked to go wandering in the hills and sing, to feel the energy. I’d been reading metaphysical poets such as John Donne and one day I wrote The Fire Poem. After we formed The Crazy World of…

Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra gave an impromptu rendition of their Eurovision-winning song, Stefania, at the Polish border as they made their way home on Monday.The band, whose music blends traditional folk and hip-hop, were presented with blue and yellow flowers as they were greeted at the border by servicemen and women, before breaking into song.Stefania had been among the favourites to win the Eurovision song contest in the northern Italian city of Turin, but decisive victory came from the public, with 439 points from the…

The first single I ever boughtThe first one I remember buying was Love Is Strange by Sylvia Robinson, when she was part of a duo called Mickey & Sylvia. It came out in 1956, right after Elvis – that’s when I started buying 45s. But the first record I made was a 45 called It Should’ve Been Me, recorded in 1954 .The song that is my my karaoke go-toElvis Presley’s Can’t Help Falling in Love. It is one of the most romantic songs ever, and has all the elements of its time. It’s a schmaltzy ballad, but with the power of…