Kris Allen has something to sing about: a new baby!
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Or, if they prefer, to sing about something completely different.
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They sing about shopping and Barbies and staying up late.
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Britney Spears has something to talk about — and sing about.
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Anyone can sing about sex and make it sound convincing.
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Personally, I talk about it, and I sing about it.
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You can't sing about change and expect anything to happen.
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Humbler Turkmen, in short, do not have much to sing about.
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This is Trump's America now, there's nothing to sing about. 5.
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Lorde. She can sing about tech any day of the week.
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I don't particularly think what I sing about is so controversial.
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The fifth-grade Portman would sing about recycling and environmental issues.
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It's likely nobody has more to sing about than Selena Gomez.
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Then they sing about their goats (and coats) in the boat.
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She is the "poolside mother" I sing about in the song.
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When people sing about sex, it makes me feel so uncomfortable.
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To sing about revenge is one thing, to do it is another.
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PND: And you're better because you sing about giving women drugs first?
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It was just nice to sing about something else for a change.
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When they sing about being "so crazy right now," you believe them.
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You should hear some of the cry-baby shit I sing about.
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If only it didn't sing about all of them all at once.
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My heart was broken, and that's all I could fucking sing about.
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Simba is really going to have something to sing about come July 19.
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I think one of the reasons to sing about it is to see.
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The new movie re-creates the scene where they sing about their fears.
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Why can't I just sing about things that are really important to me?
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"I wouldn't know what else to do but sing about that," she says.
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He's singing about how to write down what he wants to sing about.
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Climate change is here and Ingrid Michaelson has a song to sing about it.
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But it's kind of fun to sing about life and be relatable to people.
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Donald Trump isn't the only candidate with cute little girls to sing about him.
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You know, that weird Australian spread Men at Work sing about in "Down Under"?
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Gone are the days when we could unironically sing about universal love and harmony.
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I never thought in my wildest dreams that I could sing about being homosexual.
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There is no subject too taboo for Bloom to talk -- and occasionally sing -- about.
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I just think it's totally hilarious that I get paid to sing about it.
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For the first time in a long time, Buckley had something to sing about.
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George Strait has even been known to sing about it a time or two.
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Better for them to sing about some old friends feuding than to feud themselves.
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When you're a teenager, you sing about your car, your girlfriend or your shoes.
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The Carpetbagger As it turns out, the Oscars have something more to sing about.
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Instead, Kesha pivots off "Praying" to sing about finding herself in her darkest days.
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Does her ennui stem from the dramas themselves, or having to sing about them?
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You can't sing about birds and lush forest scenes because it hasn't rained in months.
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After all, why sing about the stars when you can actually shoot for the moon?
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"If you kill another king before you die, they'll sing about you forever," Euron taunts.
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He won't sing about hot-button political issues, and he certainly won't criticize President Trump.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda has plenty to sing about in a new Mary Poppins Returns teaser.
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If someone wants to sing about " let's just love" and do the motions, that's fine.
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I know in "Mystified" you sing about the "Bleecker speed freaks" and all that stuff.
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And I had some melodies, and I didn't know what I wanted to sing about.
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Nevermind, though, we're still going to sing about Jihadi John and wang back the tinnies.
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My experience has been what I sing about, and it's a balance I'm still learning.
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And to convince Thom Yorke that he definitely wants to sing about a vampire baby.
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What if all the Zayns were to simultaneously sing about their loneliness and need for companionship?
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Her fairytale romance with her husband, Russell Wilson, has also given her plenty to sing about.
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" One person asked, "[Why] would anyone sing about pressuring a girl to send nudes to you?
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In the north they have a special song they sing, about paying attention, about having patience.
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Tristan Thompson couldn't be happier with Khloé Kardashian — and he's not afraid to sing about it.
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Do you think there'll be a day when Kreator don't have to sing about these topics?
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I decided that night in the studio that I was going to sing about social justice.
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I'm going to sing about how you're wrong, and not turn it into this happy thing.
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If you express yourself with the classic songs, sing about your problems, you can solve them.
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You sing about hating L.A. on your song "Drive North," also the title of the album.
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One of my favorite all time groups is Spiritualized, and that's what they sing about too.
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As far as our music goes, on stage, we're just singing about what we sing about.
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Drake and Sufjan Stevens are both feather-voiced troubadours who sing about municipalities, relationships, and family.
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The artists who sing about Richard Mille are clients, according to an email from the company.
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Hey, if it's enough for Lorde to sing about it, then it must be pretty damn good.
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Now, as reputation goes to show, her personal life has more than enough material to sing about.
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We didn't want barriers put up on what we were allowed to sing about, say, or play.
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PEOPLE: You're a free spirit, but on "More Girls Like You," you sing about finding the one.
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It felt good to look our anxiety in the eye, to sing about it, to celebrate it.
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They sing about drugs, sex and adolescence with thick-knit rock instrumentation and emotionally charged, retro synths.
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Does it bum you out knowing that you'll probably never run out of material to sing about?
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Unfortunately, there will be plenty of "extreme weather events" to write and sing about in coming years.
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She would sing about love, usually going wrong, along with fame, drugs and stray thoughts about America.
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" Over honeyed, reconciliatory-sounding production hooked up by Key Wane, Jhené and Sean reunite to tell the world that it would be a "historical disaster" if their coupledom ended: "The kids will sing about us/ The kids will sing about it like the London Bridge is falling down.
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Apparently her "favorite thing to sing about is love" and she counts Taylor Swift as a main inspiration.
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Abby Anderson is in love, and all she wants to do right about now is sing about it.
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That didn't wreck his music either—because his feelings were always strong enough to sing about, nothing could.
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Following this rumor, though, Haddish tweeted that hey, it doesn't matter if Beyoncé wants to sing about her.
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In a series of tweets, she reminded the internet that Bey can pretty much sing about her whenever.
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But instead of taking a break to get themselves together, the hilarious duo decided to sing about it.
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It's like how Thin Lizzy will always be able to sing about the boys being back in town.
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The infectious jam finds Tomlinson and Rexha "addicted to the drama" as they sing about a dysfunctional relationship.
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Plenty of bands address the extravagance and the ferocity of youth, but far fewer sing about being grownup.
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Not too bad for a band most famous for not being able to directly sing about farmyard shagging.
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We can joke about it, but it must be really hard to hear your son sing about that.
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Bitter prior experience had taught them that they would not, in the end, have much to sing about.
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Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone play a guy and girl who fall in love and sing about it.
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I don't want to be all preacher-like and sing about politics; I'm not into that at all.
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Justin and Hailey Bieber have a combined net worth of $268 million, and he's gonna sing about it.
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One thing the press always fixated on was how you and Hayden weren't afraid to sing about sex.
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He wrote a song for her to sing about how completely normal and not-creepy their relationship was.
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Also Estelle gets to sing about it while kicking another Gem's ass, which is pretty much the best.
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Yeah, I tell my brother I want to sing about stuff that is relatable and in a positive way.
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All hail Olly Alexander, and the rest of the male pop stars who aren't afraid to sing about boys.
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Love is a two-way street, and it's fun to sing about making your man know you want him!
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Think about it: how great would it be to hear Dr. House sing about a lovely bunch of coconuts?
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But I also sing about how I have to go to the special room when I go the airport.
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They may sing about the simple joys of life, but top country singers are raking in some serious cash.
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She doesn't just sing about love and desire; songs like "Canibál" and "Triángulo" examine deep, almost self-immolating depression.
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I don't have the fail-safe voice, so it has to be something that I need to sing about.
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For now, ITZY sing about what's truly important to them as teenagers who are growing up alongside their fans.
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Taylor Swift keeps her relationship with Joe Alwyn under wraps, but that doesn't mean she won't sing about him.
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GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO Paul McCartney, that Paul McCartney, uses Auto-Tune — yes, Auto-Tune — to sing about lost, lifelong love.
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So instead of boasting about a busy schedule, time affluent people can sing about how much free time they have.
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"Be safe out there, and remember: fireworks are good to sing about, but illegal to use!" the NYPD post said.
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He did have something to sing about in September 2004, when he married his girlfriend of 10 years, Kelly Baldwin.
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It will pair two famous persons in a car so that they can talk and sing about life and stuff.
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In May 2017, Cyrus opened up about choosing to sing about her relationship and falling back in love with Hemsworth
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We could sing about politics, but we'd get into way more fights and arguments way more than we do now.
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He's given me so much to sing about and I feel so lucky to be a part of his world.
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Lambert turns thirty-three this month, and, as her fans know, she has no shortage of things to sing about.
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The Lonely Island's Andy Samberg joined Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show to sing about the joys of high kicking.
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Taylor Swift's song "Blank Space" has a lyric that seems to sing about Starbucks lovers, but it's actually about exes.
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How does she manage to sing about gunplay and still come across as someone cool who I'd want to hang with?
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We knew Julie Andrews was right the moment we heard her sing about her favorite things in The Sounds Of Music.
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This is a blissful, romantic song, in which they sing about spending their birthday in the arms of someone they love.
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On "Clean Up," you sing about being a "chronic forgetter"; on "Chasing the Grid" you say you've memorized your favorite story.
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The lyrics, his ability to sing about anything other than sex, that millennial pink album cover — it was all so good.
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And just when I thought we were out of nameless women to sing about, Mind of Mine pulls us back in.
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I mean, wouldn't it be exciting to hear Zayn sing about how drinking/smoking gave way to some serious life revelations?
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Riot Grrrl had permitted us to pick up guitars and sing about our lives with a passion that made mastery irrelevant.
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High John the Conqueror is an old root—that's the root they sing about in a lot of the older blues songs.
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I went to do soundcheck, but before I left, I told Josh and Jordan that I wanted to sing about my boyfriend.
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The friends sing about stalking someone you hate on social media and pointing out their OBVIOUS flaws, while completely ignoring their own.
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As much as I sing about death, we were all there to honor this very specific person in a very specific way.
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It's a brassy number all about love, because who else is more suited than Wonder (and Grande?) to sing about that subject.
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But should Mr Baddiel and Mr Skinner live to be 100, they may well have to sing about 70 years of hurt.
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That was one thing about the band that we were never afraid to do, we sing what we want to sing about.
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"Our beloved 'Auntie' Maxine Waters laid this sermon down so good that I had to sing about it!" the video's description reads.
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This evolution has given the show's characters room to learn (and sing!) about everything from love and trust to anxiety and grief.
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Among the updates, characters sing about making "America stronger," - a reference to U.S. President Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" campaign slogan.
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The actors and musicians behind "Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes)" see themselves in the stories they will share, and sing about, onstage.
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Electric guitars surge and spill over in "Dylan Thomas," as Bridgers and Oberst sing about power, entertainment and the elusiveness of truth.
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They want to be able to sing about who they love, and the people they have loved, as much as their male peers.
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The judge tried, unsuccessfully, to get Dreeben to admit that prosecutors were charging Manafort in order to get him to "sing" about Trump.
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Elise Davis is able to sing about the highs and lows of it all in a way that's both reflective and forward-moving.
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Sing about things that matter to you, but put your message about the world in an undertone so you don't preach too much.
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The Guardians will sing about Martin Kaymer to the tune of Culture Club's 1980s hit "Karma Chameleon" ("Kaymer, Kaymer, Kaymer, Kaymer, Kaymer Chameleon").
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JW: I think for me, the first time I heard it I was just like, wow, girls can sing about other girls. Cool.
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When given a suggested song list, she took the opportunity to ask if she could sing about something related to climate change instead.
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When his band's big break came, Tom Petty sang about freedom, in all of the unclear but hopeful ways rock singers sing about freedom.
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Both women sing about the way memories can inflict damage, whether it's a smile long since withheld or a lifetime worth of intimate contact.
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Diana: And that's why they threw Ameer out because what he did doesn't agree with Brockhampton's values that they sing about on their songs.
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The song has a subtle thumping reggaetón beat while the artists sing about loyalty and loving your closest family and friends above all else.
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Why the hell was I listening to a bunch of scrawny dudes with floppy hair sing about a very big house in the country?
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In each act, a trio of bluegrass musicians appears at least once to sing about work or damnation or having no place to go.
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Burna Boy, who is from Nigeria, often uses Afrobeats — electronic rhythms infused with West African drumming — to sing about romance and other pop topics.
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What similarities and differences exist among these groups in terms of what they sing about, how they perform and even what they look like?
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Part of the paradox here is simply that monetary wealth gives musicians — at least, the tiny minority experiencing material bounty — something to sing about.
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Chris Young and Cassadee Pope may sing about breaking up in "Think of You," but their chart-topper has definitely turned them into best buddies.
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If something goes right, we hope you'll do the same, or sing about your success on social media, where we gather around the hashtag #NYTCooking.
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I was also able to sing about a subject that I hadn't really been able to go near while I was in One Direction: sex.
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Let's take the name TINA and turn it back into that contraction so we can hear her sing about healing her broken heart: Your thoughts?
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Times are changing the way we sing about it is lagging, and Lorde taps into a state of female infatuation that rarely sees the light.
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No seriously, the singer loves checkin' those shapes so much that he teamed up with Cookie Monster, Bert and the Count to sing about it.
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Not to say they're some sort of soothsaying wizards, but the boy band Busted did sing about living underwater in the year 3000, of course.
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Kanye was previously content to let his interactions with Auto-Tune happen in the context of getting T-Pain to sing about the good life.
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It was easy to grasp what they were experiencing, and wanting to share because they would sing about it and communicate it with their bodies.
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Rizzle Kicks - "Always Late" Known for their alternative hip-hop style, the duo's new relatable track sees the Brighton lads sing about always being late.
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"In Czech society, there is obviously a current of people who are afraid of Muslims so would follow anything these groups sing about," he said.
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The video features colorful, lavish scenes of the three couples together on a huge estate as the brothers sing about being "suckers" for the women.
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Like a fever dream filled with manic celebrities and dashed promises, so too descends Bartlett, a musical comedy in which people allegedly sing about Silicon Valley.
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The first time I heard someone sing about AIDS it was Prince: 'In France, a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name.
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Mary J. Blige likes to sing about "no more drama," but drama is exactly what she signed on for when she agreed to her latest project.
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Bey can sing about liking her "negro nose with Jackson 5 nostrils" because she has them, and bears the cultural and historic weight of this identity.
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You've said things in past interviews like 'The songs we play come from the heart which is incidentally why I don't sing about wizards or dragons.
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People sing about the meatpacking district of 30 years ago, or about how gentrification has led to more garbage — and thus more rats — on their blocks.
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Jason Rabinowitz and Jacob Stein, known as the Pop Ups, think science is something to sing about, and they'd like children to feel the same way.
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Aaron Carter is a "grown ass man" who doesn't sing about candy anymore, bro -- and he'll whine like a baby if you try to make him.
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More powerful than having a boldface name present the letter of the day, Ms. Johnson says, is to have Gwen Stefani sing about being a best friend.
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"And then they sing about Trump, "We don't know how he got here, can't wait till he is gone / Hope he doesn't sue us for this song!
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The maple syrup comes in at the end, giving the dish a note of sweetness that oozes out of the shell, and good enough to sing about.
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He goes on, in "Call Out My Name" and throughout the length of the Melancholy, to sing about his selflessness in a selfish relationship (or a couple).
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"The only reason I am here is Kim, so I thought it would be good to sing about Kim, like a thank you letter," says Lenchantin backstage.
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My siblings were not pleased, but I hadn't realized it would be a big deal to sing about being chained up, faithless, and nude on Saturday morning.
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Instead of pre-match Islamic pop singers who sing about love and God, two famous religious chanters, Majid Bani-Fatemi and Sadegh Marashi, performed before the crowds.
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In 1950 he moved to Chicago, where he stayed with an uncle, H. H. Harrington, and worked as a dishwasher — a job he would later sing about.
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Behind the curtain were raw admissions that left me mourning for the easy, girl-next-door life Swift used to sing about but can never return to.
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"She really knew what she wanted to sing about and didn't know how, and that's what we spent most of the time working on," Mr. Viola said.
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She wants the band to sing about the potential return of a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, but is concerned about getting the right tone.
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You can't just keep singing about — we've always been a band who sing about things that mean something, we've always wanted to make people feel good about themselves.
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In a way that's unavoidable, because Drake can't sing about heartbreak without centering the conversation on himself; he can't rap about being the G.O.A.T. without big upping himself.
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We do sing about social issues and the environment, but a lot of the songs are more about human strengths and weaknesses, power of thoughts, stuff like that.
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Sometimes mainstream media doesn't understand this kind of music, so they make comments that can be amusing, like suggesting we sing about muffin recipes or what have you.
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While the 24-year-old isn't afraid to sing about his sexuality and personal experiences on "Bloom," that doesn't mean that he's okay with his privacy getting invaded.
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"Being someone of Latin American descent, being able to sing about your heritage or the occult in the tongue of your parents is a visceral experience," she says.
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" Still, it's refreshing to hear Mr. Batmanglij playfully sing about "two boys, one to kiss your neck and one to bring you breakfast," in the song "Bike Dream.
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Mr. Anderson is likable, flexible and hard-working, which is not quite enough to keep us from wincing every time Happy Man starts to sing about dreams again.
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Just as she starts to sing about how much they like it, her daughters spit it out and her husband, Daniel Craig, says the salad tastes like shit.
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My favorite of all these postmod fantasy songs is "Goin' to Bombay," in which he sings about his hometown the way Mississippi bluesmen used to sing about the Delta.
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What I really love about you guys is that you always look so fucking happy but the stuff you sing about is riddled with nostalgia and sadness and wistfulness.
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Generally a debut single titled "Famous" should set off alarm bells––nobody wants to hear a viral sensation sing about their experience with fame––but Ramsey's in the clear.
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Where PJ once used vivid, apocalyptic lyricism to sing about her own personal wars—in romance, sex and death—this time she swivels the lens outwards, towards actual wars.
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This approach is a far cry from Carousel's famous "Soliloquy," in which Billy learns he's to be a father and proceeds to sing about change that is only superficial.
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While we've all heard Rih sing about rocking looks in "Fresh Off The Runway" she yet again proved why she's the reigning queen of the Met Gala's red carpet.
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That feeling, being able to write about it, sing about it, that song, those words sold millions of records, I won a Grammy, I made a lot of money.
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A new clip from the film shows Emma Watson in full Belle glory, a "peculiar" girl in a simple town where no one can help but sing about it.
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Our conversation has been lightly edited and condensed, but as you'll soon see, 40-odd years into his fabulous career, our man Rob still has plenty to sing about.
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I'm not saying that I don't like the bands that sing about that kind of stuff, they are great bands, most of them, musically, and I appreciate their music.
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They all voice various animated animals — Grande is a zebra, for example, while Bieber is a baboon — who sing about their rear ends while advocating for the environmental movement.
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The show doesn't glorify anything or anybody: certainly not the collection of misfits, from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald and beyond, who sing about shooting a president.
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If you ever wanted to see Adam Sandler sing about his daddy f****ng his eye with his penis ... ya shoulda been riding the subway Wednesday night in NYC.
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Related: 'Bob's Burgers' Artist Jay Howell Has Sex with Art Afternoon Animation: The National Gets Animated And Sing About Gravy On "Bob's Burgers" Wes Anderson's Bad Dads Inspire Good Art
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Absolutely. Throughout history, people have used the words "hung over" and "drunk" interchangeably, like in sea shanties where they sing about a drunk sailor and it's obviously he's hung over.
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Speaking to reporters at the CASA of Los Angeles' 2018 Evening to Foster Dreams Gala on Wednesday in Beverly Hills, Hilton had nothing but praise to sing about Kardashian West.
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Speaking to PEOPLE at the season premiere party in Los Angeles last month, the cast had nothing but praise to sing about Wright, 52, who also directed the series finale.
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It's one thing to pose with a Budweiser in hand, it's quite the other to hypothetically get paid by Budweiser to write, record, and sing about their (highly average) beer.
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Harrison had nothing but praise to sing about the 35-year-old professional auto racing driver, who was the runner-up on Emily Maynard's season of The Bachelorette in 2012.
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Grande and Wonder's voices work perfectly in sync with each other on top of the upbeat track as they sing about faith in a love that'll get your toes tapping.
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Sometimes the label heads try to tell us who we are, but we knew the style of music that we wanted to do, and what we wanted to sing about.
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He can sing about everything from smoking cigarettes at a cancer benefit to almost being murdered by an oncoming truck while riding a scooter the wrong way down a highway.
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In the first single—"UFO," which I'll be releasing on the 20th of July—I sing about how my time amongst humans has left me with a desire for alienation.
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But for every kernel of truth in that stereotype, our band is happy to offer a true alternative, to talk and sing about reproductive justice, trans rights, and rape culture.
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It would be comfortable to sing about war, sound like Discharge, and have pictures of blown-up babies on the cover on every record, but it would also be boring.
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They also write songs that rhyme "zenith" with "penis" and require Nick Jonas to sing about 69ing a lot, as well as play a very rowdy game of drinking-shuffleboard.
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Again from "entanglement": Assignment: Find our fifth-wave feminism And think how you would sing about it To the Kurdish women of Rojava, To the first person in the world.
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The ladies (and musical guest Nicki Minaj) sing about the joys of female friendship, like stalking someone you hate on Instagram and finding their every flaw because they insulted your friend.
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Comedy rappers like Lonely Island and Lajoie speak to me because they use the hyper-masculine genre of hip hop to sing about things men are conditioned to see as emasculating.
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In the normal course of things, all of those characters would self-actualize and follow their bliss to one of those Hollywood endings they sing about in a choreographed lunchroom number.
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All she knows is that, the world to her is D+Evolution and she's here to be loud about it and sing about it, because it's what she knows and loves.
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The magazine in the crate provided a song to sing about the three shapes (circle, triangle, and square), and she often holds the shapes and dances while we sing the song.
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The juiciest implication was that, in exchange for an extremely generous plea deal that left out a bunch of other plausible charges, Flynn was ready to sing about his old boss.
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One of these was post-punk band Cabbage from Manchester, UK. "The band sing about everyday issues with a sense of humour and no subject is out of bound," reads the article.
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Sitting in the back of a pick-up truck — like how most country songs end up — the duo continues to sing about how they thought they were cultured, but apparently are not.
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In "Philosophy of the World," they sing about how "you can never please anybody in this world," a rather cynical sentiment first off, but covered in messy instrumentation that actually feels… warm.
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But the crowning moment is at the end, with the arrival of the viral yodeling preteen Mason Ramsey, who shows up to sing about his Razor scooter, cows and his giddy-up.
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If anything, songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez kind of play into their weakest aspects with a song from Anna that veers into Randy-Newman-sing-about-what-you're-doing territory.
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In the same interview, Elton John quickly talks about Richard's influence on him, noting how the performer's prowess as a pianist and his flamboyant style inspired him to sing about tiny dancers.
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We don't sing about politics; we might all have our own views, we probably all have our own religious views as well, but we just don't let that creep into this band.
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"It is a crime against the nation to sing about drugs, same-sex love and perversion," the group said in a statement on its page on Vkontakte, a Russian version of Facebook.
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Slater's lyrics tend to flatten out characterization, except for the moments when Calogero and Jane poignantly sing about how the world isn't ready for the two of them to fall in love.
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On "The End of the World Is Bigger Than Love," from I Know What Love Isn't , you sing about Obama's election in 2008 and feeling so hopeful about the direction of the world.
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His album releases aren't persona-driven pop events like Justin Timberlake's; he's not a tabloid fixture like Justin Bieber; he doesn't sing about narcotic effects and relatably bad decisions, like the Weeknd does.
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As a matter of fact, the pop-punk veteran and his twin brother Benji, both 37, sing about just that on Youth Authority, their band Good Charlotte's first album in nearly six years.
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Especially for someone who spent all their time alone as a teenager, the lines "we're all alone now, give me something to sing about" and "nothing compares to a quiet evening alone" soared.
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In it you can hear the energy that courses through their full LP; there is anger, contempt, and full on indifference that powers the band as they sing about just getting through life.
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In "The Burden," an animated film from the Swedish artist Niki Lindroth von Bahr, anthropomorphic fish, mice and simians in buildings along an anonymous highway-scape floating through space sing about their sorrows.
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As I listened to Parton sing about young Willowdean yearning to be the star of her own life, I wondered whether I was about to have my own "A Star Is Born" moment.
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While he's popular enough to play arenas, this outdoor show, presented by Northside Festival, is a prime opportunity to hear Miguel sing about love, sex and psychedelic dreams in a more relaxed setting.
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But it's also a show that ends most episodes with tiny moments of people coming together, to sing about giving up or shove birthday cake in each other's mouths in misguided life-saving attempts.
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Lambert, Monroe, and Presley write songs steeped in model country themes — marriage, family, longing — that also depend on relatively new gender roles, things for women to sing about, ways for women to position themselves.
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But when you're from Alabama and you have a Southern accent and you sing about rural things… Was there a particular artist who showed you that major success was possible on an indie label?
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Imagine if, today, a famed musical theater star (like Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Oscar-winning Greatest Showman songwriters) gathered 213 of the nation's most talented youths and made them sing about French kissing.
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At the National Book Awards on Wednesday night, Jesmyn Ward won her second National Book Award for her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing, about a black family on an odyssey of sorts in rural Mississippi.
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Sandler used the platform to sing about wearing shorts, "scary shit," and walking in on his parents having sex, while a man he'd probably never met before plunked away on an electric piano nearby.
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In what is certainly a shocking twist in the Zayn Malik and One Direction saga, the singer reveals that leaving the boy band world behind finally allowed him the freedom to sing about hAvInG sEx.
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Among the greatest moments were Nick Jonas reading that he looked like a ferret, TLC defending their right to sing about waterfalls, and Zendaya cracking up over being compared to a stringy piece of pasta.
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I want to experience things so I can get healthier and stronger as a person so I can sing about that, and in return people will hopefully relate so we can prop each other up.
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The women harmonize and take turns pushing one another as they sing about trouble and hope, love and compassion — both personal and public-spirited — as the songs build up until they all but demand singalongs.
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Though Moore tells me that "everything that happens in life is going to get infused into the work," there are certain things that Moore won't sing about on her Silver Landings tour, strictly by design.
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We do our own director's cut of what's happened to us, and within that was this aspect of meditating the past romantic experiences and trying to sing about them in as abstract way as possible.
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Ten years ago, Lin-Manuel Miranda was relatively little known on the national stage when he went to the White House with a song to sing about a very famous dead politician named Alexander Hamilton.
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Pink has always been well suited to sing about messy love, but on "What About Us," the first single from a new album due in October called "Beautiful Trauma," she sings about a messy world.
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Working with Mr. Lennon, on the pretty "Tomorrow Never Came," gives Ms. Del Rey license to try Beatles-style chord changes and to sing about idolizing the Beatles while sketching one more lost-love scenario.
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The Liberty Science Center in New Jersey will offer a show about flying species and the mechanics of flight, and the children's musician Bradley True will sing about hibernation and what makes a bird a bird.
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Men can sing all they want about all the trouble they've caused by their bad decisions, but as a woman you can't sing about much—other than having your heart broken or getting revenge, of course.
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The song goes beyond its gimmick to be independently enjoyable as an afternoon bop, and I for one am having a perfectly pleasant midday break watching someone else eat a cupcake and then sing about murder.
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The sense of curiosity and play that once motivated the pair to sing about radioactive mushrooms and "Chimpanzees in Canopies" evolved into a more rigorous experimentalism on "I'm All Ears," their breakout album from last year.
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" Later, she goes on to sing about how she has "moved here from the suburbs" and "bought a little house" among these folks who sport "flashy rims and low-riders" and are "up to no good.
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That's an interesting thing to sing about, considering in this episode we learn that Jon not only loves Dany (we knew that all along), but that he then tells her he's the rightful heir to the throne.
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It was a (sanitized) cover of Busted's "Year 27" in which the brothers sing about traveling into the future to find (inexplicably) "boy bands" and to discover that their records outsold Kelly Clarkson (random but it rhymed).
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You sing about a villain who "quickly woke and wrapped [you] in his coat," which got me thinking about whether musicians need some degree of darkness to create an impactful song narrative, or just art at large.
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This is the impression you get anyway, from the way people talk about it, sing about it, write about it, and literally have a day each year to officially praise its existence (and pseudo-protest its prohibition).
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Yet over a pitter-patter beat that evokes a nervous heart thumping, vocalists Oliver Sim and Romy Madley Croft manage to sing about the desire and suspense of early-stage attraction in a way that's genuinely intoxicating. —N.
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Federal Reserve officials have lined up to sing about the need for higher rates soon, sending the implied probability of a move this month surging to 74 percent, from just 30 percent at the start of the week.
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Ramsey, who shot to fame after a video of him singing Hank Williams Sr.'s "Lovesick Blues" at an Illinois Walmart went viral, ditches traditional country to sing about a girl he loves on the pop-flavored track.
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They may sing about darkness, and anger, and getting ugly when the whiskey flows, but their music is also fundamentally about love, and hope, and the South— especially the South, which functions as a sort of third Sister.
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Don't get me wrong, I love that and appreciate that approach, but I feel like there's another side to most heavy metal fans who just wants to lift their sword, listen to Dio, and sing about attacking dragons.
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Taylor Swift's new album Reputation came out on Friday and to celebrate, Reebok put together a simple workout that you can do at home while listening to Swift sing about ex-boyfriends, rivalries and all of her wildest dreams.
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While we can only guess the leads of two major television series won't perish, we know super friends Kara and Barry will sing about, well, super friendship together in a song written by Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star Rachel Bloom.
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Let's hope McKay learns from his mistakes and figures out how to successfully weave a song into his upcoming Theranos biopic, Bad Blood, so we get to see Jennifer Lawrence as Elizabeth Holmes sing about inflated valuations or whatever.
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She writes beautifully in her memoir "Stand Up Straight and Sing!" about hearing her grandmother singing songs and spirituals, whether happy or melancholy, always "beautiful, deeply soulful and right"; Ms. Norman carried on this tradition with unforgettable spirituals performances.
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"Here lies my last nerve, Donald," Strong declares as it begins; she and Blunt are then accompanied by Kate McKinnon's Conway, Sasheer Zamata's Omarosa Manigault, and Vanessa Bayer's Tiffany Trump as they all sing about being "tired of" Trump.
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But there's plenty to talk, uh, sing about, from internet porn and the legal drinking age to the quality of the beef in our hamburgers and the blend of the fabrics of our clothing — all things that the government regulates.
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Matt Korvette doesn't sing about smashing the system, he sings about the system smashing him and trying to grow old in it, set to droning punk that's an update on the sludgy sounds of Flipper, Kilslug, and The Jesus Lizard.
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It's a shame for Liam Hemsworth, who has to know the entire world is listening to his ex sing about being fully over him less than a month after they split up, but hey: Miley sounds like she's doing great.
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Speaking to Out in March 2019, the 31-year-old said that during previous years when he hadn't publicly confirmed his sexuality, he felt pressured to sing about girls or be "less specific" and avoid using pronouns in his lyrics.
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On Thursday's episode of Live with Kelly and Ryan, Seacrest and his co-host Kelly Ripa got on the topic of their significant others — and they had nothing but praise to sing about Seacrest's girlfriend Shayna Taylor and Ripa's husband Mark Consuelos.
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"If I'm gonna be sexy on the VMAs and sing about the paparazzi, I'm gonna do it while I'm bleeding to death and reminding you of what fame did to Marilyn Monroe," she said, squatting near a parked car outside the studio.
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"I had this top from the costume on and didn't know what to sing about, but the shirt was so ridiculous that I was like, 'Maybe that would be cool if I just made a song about cows,'" she told the outlet.
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The episode "I Survived Jesse's Bat Mitzvah" features a fantastic musical number where the characters all sing about a season's worth of emotional baggage, including a first love flaming out and Jesse realizing her mom is having a lesbian affair with her rabbi.
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She may sing about being caught in a "Bad Romance," but Lady Gaga appears to be happy as can be with boyfriend Christian Carino — even admitting she was "in love" with her CAA agent beau while performing at New York's Citi Field recently.
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Prior to this week, we saw some absurd reactions to Beyoncé's new song "Formation" — to the point that SNL aired a skit lampooning all the white people who were offended that Beyoncé, a black woman, would sing about being a black woman.
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"Liberated" - DeJ Loaf and Leon Bridges On "Liberated," DeJ Loaf and Leon Bridges sing about living free and not worrying what other people think, and for the music video, directed by Calmatic, they asked other people what being liberated means to them.
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Especially as outwardly queer artists from the start, this steady, decades-long climb is nearly unprecedented and has paved the way for pop stars like Halsey, Hayley Kiyoko, and King Princess to be able to sing about female desire on Top 40 Radio.
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Pop culture tends to reflect us back onto ourselves, and crammed into my tiny economy-class corner of that plane, watching two generations of actresses sing about finding inner strength while abroad, it may have been the first time I felt truly homesick.
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But what I've noticed is I've seen a lot of instant response from a lot of older musicians, who are used to change, and I think a lot of millennial musicians are going to turn into something like that, need something to sing about.
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And when I sing about looking at the stars, it's like the only connection you can really have with somebody when you're away from them is looking at the sky at the same time and looking at the stars and constellations and the moon.
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Ruhl writes back that the poem is "gorgeous and sublime," and answers its haunting query: My other input is that the answer to the question posed in your poem is always yes— the eternal yes that poets sing about, the yes of the poet's immortality.
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Read more: 'The Simpsons' predicted Daenerys Targaryen's big plot twist on 'Game of Thrones' 2 years agoBut he proves to be no match for the animated congresswomen, as they chase him around the White House and sing about why they hope to impeach him.
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I know there are bands that sing about Satanism—which is part of Christianity in my opinion anyway—but I don't know how people don't get it into their heads that music is just art and people probably don't mean it in that way.
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AWA is bringing Zimbabwean rap to international audiences, and I get to sing about issues that matter to me in multiple languages the world over—these all point to instances which suggest that women can set out to do whatever they put their minds to.
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"If I'm going to be sexy at the VMAs and sing about the paparazzi, I'm going to do it while bleeding to death and reminding you of what fame did to Marilyn Monroe, the original Norma Jean—and what it did to Anna Nicole Smith," she said.
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On "Losing Myself", Riley and James sing about the strange, bitter feeling of constant change that so often haunts when you're young: "It feels like I'm losing myself, and that's new to you" they sing, compounding a deeply internal kind of hurt into a taut, bright hook.
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A band can sing about exclusively about elven sex and refuse to variate from the song structure template laid down by AC/DC, but as long as it drives to rehearsal on taxpayer supported roads and interacts with any other living person in any way, it's political.
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Dutch four-piece Mozes And The Firstborn know those feelings all too well, and over the course of their 12-song record, Great Pile of Nothing, the band sing about depression and all those terrifying existential feelings you get when you think about life a little too deeply.
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Women of East Asian descent, who in America form a relatively affluent minority, are perhaps the true heirs to indie angst, best positioned to harness its requisite dual staples: a sense of unbelonging that borders on the existential, and the time and privilege necessary to sing about it.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads This week, learn about the life of a Pre-Raphaelite muse — who was also a poet and artist, listen to Mel Chin speak and sing about his art, commemorate 3/11 with a discussion about new Japanese art and architecture, and more.
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It's unclear when, if ever, we'll actually get to see versions of Johnny, Mark, Denny, and Lisa toss around footballs and sing about pizza orders on the proscenium stage, but if there is any justice in this dark and cruel world, Ben Folds will make it happen eventually.
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When August Wilson's play Fences premiered at Yale Repertory Theater in May 1985, two years before its Broadway debut, Frank Rich reviewed it for the New York Times: For the slum dwellers of "Fences," scraping out a hard-scrabble existence amid the Eisenhower boom, there is nothing to sing about.
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" So perhaps it's no surprise that "Where the Crawdads Sing" — about a young girl surviving on her own in a North Carolina coastal marsh — asks, as she says, "how isolation influences the behavior of a young woman, who, like all of us, has the genetic propensity to belong to a group.
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About a decade ago, when Justin Vernon, the principal member of Bon Iver, was recording the songs that became the band's début album, "For Emma, Forever Ago," he realized that ranging just above his usual register made it easier to sing about memories that were otherwise too painful to recount.
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I just wanted to see what kind of band plays a DIY place like Double Entendre while having a name that sounded like it belonged to a French prog band circa 1973—the kind of band that might sing about mystical beings roaming the wasteland after the collapse of civilization.
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It is part of the economy that makes a profile of two random good-looking Instagram teens a reasonable piece of content for Cosmo, and the part that makes it good business for an entertainer like Jepsen to jump about in bright costumes and sing about schoolgirl crushes well into her thirties.
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This usually manifests in one of several themes: adorable, shy schoolgirls who sing about giddy crushes; knowing, empowered women who need an "oppa" (a strong older male figure) to fulfill their fantasies; or knowing, empowered women who reject male validation, even as the studio tailors the group's members for adult male consumption.
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As someone who has lived in East Nashville, when I hear Thomas sing about how she's "good, living in the ghetto..." with homeless people asking her for a dollar and giving her a "hoot and a holler," I wonder if we actually resided in the same zip code, let alone the same dimension.
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VANESSA BAYER, OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES Bayer earned her first Emmy nomination for her final season on Saturday Night Live, thanks to reappearances from classic characters like Jacob the Bar Mitzvah boy, child newsreader Laura Parsons (who likes to sing about all of the worst news) and of course, Rachel from Friends.
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A wide-eyed Rebecca (newly minted Golden Globe and Critics' Choice winner Rachel Bloom) would sing about being "blue" at her high-powered lawyer job in New York and how it inspired the impulsive decision that led her to West Covina, California — which is also the home of her childhood sweetheart Josh (Vincent Rodriguez III).
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A federal judge in Virginia on Friday tried, unsuccessfully, to get a lawyer from special counsel Robert Mueller's office to say what has long been speculated: that the charges against former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, which don't relate to his campaign work, are aimed at pressuring Manafort to "sing" about President Donald Trump.
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Together, Ocean and Drake will harmonize and reproduce Isaac Brock's whiny cadence to sing about the atmospheric pressure of modern day life near Lake Huron, the distant horizons of Lake Michigan and the great emotional depths of Lake Superior, the second largest lake in the world by area, and sweet, often forgotten, Lake Erie.
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From the earliest Ciggie Witch tapes—where he would sing about sitting at home on eBay while his 18-year-old friends went out drinking—through to this year's Ocean Party releases, Zac's manifold skills as a drummer, as a guitarist, songwriter and vocalist, seemed to become sharper and more brilliant release-on-release.
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And we were like, "Well, we're more than that, and we don't just sing about 'Don't Touch My Shit' or boobs or whatever," so lyrically it's a little bit darker or a little bit more personal, and just a little more conscious of the fact that it's gonna be out there in the world.
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By that I mean that anyone can sing about a break up, and a lot of people do, but crafting something that sounds almost analogous to the feeling of weightless vertigo that comes with accepting something is over when, in fact, that's the very last thing in the world you want, is nigh on impossible.
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The Weeknd and Ms. Nicks signal the Hollywood decadence that Ms. Del Rey often chronicles and indicts: the Weeknd joining her in "Lust for Life" to sing about dancing on the Hollywood sign and getting naked, and Ms. Nicks collaborating on a piano ballad, "Beautiful People Beautiful Problems," that teases at its own narcissism.
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In this genre, where women are criminally under-represented on radio and when most men sing about them it's to extoll their ideas of what a woman should be like, it seems like a missed opportunity to have Keith Urban singing a song that any one of the women in country would be more impactful singing.
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" But the suit filed Tuesday over Woody Guthrie's classic "This Land Is Your Land" is aimed at liberating a song known to generations of schoolchildren who have raised their voices to sing about a free country belonging to one and all, sprawling "from California to New York Island, from the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters.
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They sing about the ups and downs (and because this is country music after all, mostly just the downs) of life and love in just the same way you or I would, but when they come together, like they did at Another Country Festival, the result is so fucking radical it's hard to wipe the smile off your face for even a moment.
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In this Saturday Night Live sketch that was cut for time, host John Mulaney plays the groom who has to sit and watch his best man (Luke Null) and brand new wife (Cecily Strong) sing about an affair they are having, and then watch Jack White join in on the revelry while he tries to figure what exactly is going on.
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When Murphy started crooning "New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down," he had to sing about Michael Bloomberg's reign as mayor — the "mild billionaire who's convinced he's a king" — in the past tense, and a penultimate performance of "Bye Bye Bayou" devoted to the late Alan Vega was a reminder that everything has to come to an end someday.
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Especially when you're getting a sunburn watching the premiere of a new musical titled "As One," in which actors playing ex-slaves and Chinese and Irish immigrants sing about a man's need to "blow off steam" while dancing with women who might represent the prostitutes the railroad workers patronized (if only because it's rare to see that many sleeveless dresses in Utah).
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After three years of entrusting its ceremony to the producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, who brought in Seth MacFarlane to sing about female on-screen nudity as host and Neil Patrick Harris to stand in his underwear, the Academy has turned to a new pair of telecast producers: Reginald Hudlin, a filmmaker whose raucous comedies include "House Party," and David Hill, a producer with credits on "American Idol" and the 2011 World Series broadcast.
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I have my own memories of being in my twenties, looking out the window of an NYU shuttle from an early evening class and believing that Murphy was getting to the literal heart of something "true"—a ridiculous thing to believe, perhaps, when you're 21 and wasted and listening to a guy in his 30s sing about getting older in a scene you're not and never will be a part of, but what is being young if not seeing a mirror in everything you look at?
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