Errattic: Music Tagged as 'Portrait'

Withers was poised — along with Stevie Wonder, Elton John and Carly Simon — to become a generationally transcendent pop star, Withers went with his heart and his desire to write and record great songs, whether they would be pop hits or not. +'Justments, Withers' last album for Sussex, was released in 1974 and spawned three singles, none of which charted higher than 50 on the pop chart. No doubt +'Justments was hampered by the financial struggles at Sussex, but he was also not interested in recording simple pop songs. A key, but underappreciated narrative of Bill Withers' career is not his chart-topping early hits — or his so-called comeback in the late 1970s with "Lovely Day" and few years later with Grover Washington on the Grammy winning "Just the Two of Us" — but the thoughtful, introspective and brilliant albums that he recorded in the interim, with little airplay or fanfare.

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Tags: Celebration, Celebrity, History, Legend, Music, Performer, Portrait, Respect

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04-Apr-2020

Sorry - Aquilo

Quarantine

Tags: Environment, Family, Nature, Portrait, Reinterpreted, Relationships, Respect, Re-tooled, SciFi, Video

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22-Mar-2020

How To Be Me - Ren x Chinchilla

Alita

Tags: Action, Fantasy, Music, Portrait, Reimagined, Respect, Re-tooled, SciFi, Tribute, Violence

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15-Mar-2020

Understanding - Mononome

Baobab

Tags: Action, Animate, Environment, Mature, Nature, Portrait, Reinterpreted, Respect, Re-tooled, Violence, World

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08-Mar-2020

Yungblud: ‘I tried everything, in terms of sexuality’

Singer-songwriter Yungblud has opened up about his sexuality again saying he ‘tried everything’ after he ran away from home aged 15.

The singer from Doncaster, northern England, also says thugs threatened to cut his head off in Russia, calling him a ‘faggot’.

And he addresses the break-up of his relationship with American singer-songwriter Halsey.

‘I tried everything. In terms of sexuality, in terms of drugs, I liberated myself, rather dangerously to be honest — recklessly. I wanted to figure myself out so bad I didn’t care. I always say to young people, it was a distraction.’

In the past, Yungblud has said he is ‘very fluid’ in his sexuality and that it depends on ‘connection’ with someone.

He says he is ‘more straight’. But he has previously said: ‘[If] I walked down the street and met a fucking bloke tomorrow, or a trans person, you never know.’

GSN

Tags: Celebrity, Interview, LGBTQ, Music, Portrait, Youth

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21-Feb-2020

I'll Come Too - James Blake

Boss

Tags: Celebrity, Crime, Daddy Squish, Drama, Music, Portrait, Reinterpreted, Relationships, Representation, Respect, Re-tooled, Tribute, Video