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Spotify dropped its highly-anticipated, yearly ‘Wrapped’ on Wednesday (Dec 4) but the listeners have been left disappointed at what turned out to be a ‘bland’ and ‘disappointing’ effort from the streaming giant. This year’s Spotify Wrapped did not provide listeners with their top music genres, or their top albums. Instead, an odd surprise, termed “wrapped…
One teen had posted a video online confessing to the plot telling people that he had “big plans” (File) Berlin: A 19-year-old has been detained in Austria for allegedly plotting to kill people outside a stadium at a Taylor Swift concert, prompting the cancellation of the pop superstar’s three shows in Vienna this week. Two…
Writing in the Times Literary Supplement in October 1921, English poet and critic Thomas Stearns Eliot remembered John Donne thus: “Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think, but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.” Eliot’s…
Health appears to improve when one listens to music The annual world music day was held on June 21, 2024. It is an occasion to look back at how music and rhythm have evolved from ancient times. As the study by Hattori and Tomonaga points out, when a rhythmic piece was played to a group of…
File picture of Eminem performing at the MTV Video Music Awards in Newark in 2022. The rapper has asked Vivek Ramaswamy to refrain from using his music during his presidential campaign | Photo Credit: AP U.S. rapper Eminem has asked Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, a multimillionaire former biotech executive, to not use his music…
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