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Jennifer Hudson: What She Can and Can’t Do

September 6, 2015
There are many things that Jennifer Hudson can’t do: write her own songs, produce her own music, hold off notes in verses where they’re not needed, release and sell a surprise album (she hasn’t tried it, but it’s difficult to imagine she could pull it off), write a novel. She

Review: ‘Jackie’ by Ciara

May 11, 2015
One of the sweetest things you can do as a pop star is to name your album after your mother, and also dedicate a song in her honor. If this song doubles as an ode to being a bad mother fucker (BMF), then it’s twice as sweet because to be

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