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97 Words: “red flag collector” by Kelly Clarkson

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June 9, 2023
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Ever-proud Texan Kelly Clarkson takes us through the Wild Wild West en route to post-divorce “high road livin'” on the latest offering from “chemistry.” Of the five songs released so far, “red flag collector” by far has the most sting. Where last week’s “i hate love” was bittersweet, “red flag collector” is triumphantly bitter. Sprinkled with just enough “yeehaw”-inducing musical

Book Review: Life With My Sister Madonna, by Christopher Ciccone

May 26, 2015
Celebrity memoirs and autobiographies are two of my favorite genres because they represent a marriage of literature and non-literature entertainment. It is not always a perfect marriage seeing as some celebrity memoirs suffer from lack of ambition to be anything other than an arbitrary dabbling into book writing. Sometimes it
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Review: ‘Jackie’ by Ciara

May 11, 2015
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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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Single Review: “Coffee (F***ing)” by Miguel, featuring Wale

May 4, 2015
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Miguel has dropped his new single, “Coffee (F***ing)” featuring Wale. Cleverly titled because, well, he never says “coffee” in the song. Rather, “coffee” is replacing the parenthesized word, “fucking.”  Similar to how his Mariah Carey collaboration cleverly replaced the word “fucking” with a hashtag in the title for “#Beautiful.” The song
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A Definitive Ranking of Mariah’s Infinite #1’s

April 17, 2015
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“Vision of Love” (4 weeks, 1990) “Love Takes Time” (3 weeks, 1990) “Someday” (2 weeks, 1991) “I Don’t Wanna Cry” (2 weeks, 1991) “Emotions” (3 weeks, 1991) “I’ll Be There” (featuring Trey Lorenz) (2 weeks, 1992) “Dreamlover” (8 weeks, 1993) “Hero” (4 weeks, 1993-1994) “Fantasy” (Bad Boy Fantasy featuring O.D.B.)
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