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“Houston, we love you.” Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy It was Beyoncé’s Grammys, and we just lived it: Leading the pack with the most Grammy wins at four, the singer also became the female artist with the most Grammys ever, with her 28th win (plus one for daughter Blue Ivy Carter ). In other, non-Beyoncé news, Taylor Swift won Album of the Year , and the Recording Academy awarded their darling Billie Eilish the Record of the Year award. The Black Lives Matter movement was honored with a performance by Lil Baby and a film about Beyoncé’s “Black Parade ,” and Megan Thee Stallion was left speechless by her Best New Artist win . For performances, the Recording Academy served us DaBaby with some violins and wannabe Judge Judys , a seductive song from Silk Sonic and Mickey Guyton’s emotional first Grammys performance . Dua Lipa debuted new choreography , Taylor Swift brought us a woodsy folklore medley , and Harry Styles also shook … [Read more...] about Beyoncé Leads the 2021 Grammys Awards With 4 Wins

THEY are one of Britain’s best-loved groups – and now it has emerged the name Madness sums up the band members’ chaotic lives before they found fame in the early Eighties. Thanks to a string of hits, including Baggy Trousers and One Step Beyond, the Nutty Boys were saved from a life of crime. Frontman Suggs had been arrested for affray in his teens and admitted they could have been jailbirds if they had not become chart-toppers. The singer — real name Graham McPherson ­— originally chose Suggs as a graffiti nickname which he daubed all over North London. Now 60, he reveals in a new ­documentary: “Being in the band was like an extension of being in a gang — apart from the fact it wasn’t just us smashing up phone boxes and kicking traffic cones down the road together. “It was at a crossroads. A lot of those people we knew at that time did get into serious crime. “We were all a little bit involved in that sort of thing and graffiti was the first thing. Music was a … [Read more...] about Madness reveal their wild pasts and how the band saved them from a life of crime

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YouTube in 2007 was the Wild West of freak comedy. Offbeat humor, celebrated through cheaply produced and easily distributed clips, dominated the young video-hosting platform, founded two years prior. Catchy songs about shoe shopping and trippy animations starring sleepy unicorns were elevated to the “Featured Videos” section of the site, the breeding ground for niche humor hits like “ Chocolate Rain ” and “ Charlie Bit My Finger .” At that point, 19-year-old Chris Crocker was living with his grandparents in Tennessee, a difficult existence for a gay teen who started getting home-schooled after eighth grade because of incessant bullying. On MySpace and YouTube, Crocker (real name Chris Cunningham) posted confessional videos that provided commentary on sexuality and “realness.” He sometimes assumed over-the-top Southern characters like Earl Annie Edna , a talk show host and vocal Crocker hater. On both platforms, Crocker gained a following for his videos. Related … [Read more...] about ‘Leave Britney Alone’: Chris Crocker on the Viral YouTube Clip

Video Player Close UNITED NATIONS, April 14 (Xinhua) -- A UN envoy on conflict-related sexual violence on Wednesday called for a post-pandemic paradigm shift to address the issue of sexual violence in conflict. "Building back better in the wake of this (COVID-19) pandemic requires an inclusive, intersectional, and gender-informed approach. Let us not miss or misunderstand this moment. This is not just a point in time, it is a turning point in history," said Pramila Patten, the UN secretary-general's special representative on sexual violence in conflict. "The pandemic demands a paradigm shift: to silence the guns and amplify the voices of women, to invest in public welfare rather than the instruments of warfare. We need to shift the leadership paradigm to ensure the representation of women and survivors themselves. We need to shift the public spending paradigm to reduce military expenditure and strengthen institutions. And we need to shift the security paradigm to foster … [Read more...] about UN envoy on conflict-related sexual violence calls for paradigm shift

SINGAPORE - From end-2021, pre-packaged non-alcoholic drinks with a high sugar or saturated fat content will be required to display a nutrition label with grades ranging from A to D, with D being the unhealthiest. Retailers will also be banned from advertising D-grade drinks on all media platforms. The same measures will next be applied to freshly prepared drinks, such as those from bubble tea chains, traditional medicine halls and smoothie chains. These moves, announced on Thursday (March 5) by Senior Minister of State for Health Edwin Tong in Parliament, in addition to a growing presence of water dispensers to coax people to drink plain water, are part of Singapore's war on diabetes. Speaking earlier at the session, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said: "To win the war on diabetes, we will need concerted, multi-year efforts, and many of these will only bear fruit in the long term." Singaporeans spend about 10 years of their life in ill health, he pointed out, and the battle … [Read more...] about Parliament: Pre-packaged sugary drinks to carry A to D grading by end-2021; bubble tea to follow suit