DISClaimer Single Reviews: Carrie Underwood ‘Rocks Out On This Defiant Stomper’
It’s an all-female country roundup in this edition of DISClaimer. Tanya Tucker, Brandy Clark and Joydyn Shellhart have the best songs. There are memories of Tina Turner and Olivia Newton John lingering in the air. Hannah Dasher, Harper Grace and…
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Beyoncé: Renaissance World Tour review – a dizzying three-hour spectacular
Beyoncé, Queen Bey’s first solo headline tour in seven years is a lavish leap forward for live entertainment, dripping with sci-fi disco decadence, sex and Black pride Even without Taylor Swift’s Ticketmaster-melting Eras Tour nipping at her heels, it wouldn’t…
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Review: Lana Del Rey’s ‘Ocean Blvd’ is an intimate epic
Lana Del Rey is a complicated, enigmatic pop star — since the height of her breakout album, “Born to Die,” the singer has been labeled one of the best songwriters of her generation “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel…
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U2 Songs of Surrender review – all the anthems, but smaller
(Island/Interscope) In a typically grand gesture, 40 songs are picked by the band for muted acoustic treatments, with varying degrees of success U2 have always dealt in grand gestures. No other rock artists from the world of post-punk chased megastardom…
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Mae Muller: I Wrote a Song review – UK Eurovision entry is far from douze points
With its revenge-on-an-ex lyrics and Europop backing, the UK offers a standardised, slightly naff song after the glam-rock belting of Sam Ryder last year For decades, Britain’s behaviour towards the Eurovision song contest followed a reliably set pattern. First, it involved behaving…
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