In another, he references the #MeToo movement while namechecking Louis C.K. and Charlie Rose as men negatively affected by sexual harassment allegations against them.
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Best Verse: TakeoffOverall Grade: B+ A song like this namechecking figures from hip hop's past seems almost tailor made for a remix featuring some of them.
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"Metta and Luol, all those guys, they talk to us all the time," Clarkson said, namechecking Metta World Peace and Luol Deng, and gesturing toward Timofey Mozgov.
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Though he did urge those "missing the original Vine experience" to check out some of the apps he said had "sprung up lately" (albeit, without namechecking any of the newbs).
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"The old Andy Williams — so we've been coming down here a long time," he said with a smile after namechecking the American singer who hosted the tournament from 1968 to 1988.
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The band's ripper "Executioner's Tax (Swing of the Axe)" was played twice in a recent episode of Fox News' The Five, with the show's host Greg Gutfeld namechecking Power Trip as well.
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Speaking to CNBC's Eunice Yoon, Yeung described how technology consumers were starting to want more protection for their data from large-scale platforms, namechecking the EU's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — which came into force earlier this year.
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"We would not be here for today's signing ceremony without the dedicated efforts without the dedicated members of Congress who worked so hard to pass the National Defense Authorization Act," Trump said, namechecking Republican members of Congress including Rep.
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The goal is to eliminate the oral portion of namechecking the friends, family, and industry members who'd help the winners get to this point, so that the speeches can focus on something more personal, unique, and frankly entertaining to everyone watching.
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"Today these are handcrafted by machine learning scientists and literally only a few thousands of scientists around the world can do this," said Google CEO Sundar Pichai last week, briefly namechecking AutoML at a launch event for new smartphones and other gadgets.
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"As a representative of Chinese private capital, CMIG serves the national 'Belt and Road Initiative' and 'Going Global' strategy, bringing out financial wisdom and industrial strength, focusing the power of capital, building a globalised industrial platform," it says, namechecking various government policies.
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Williams, also present at that Brooklyn screening, delighted in the chance to be part of a wave of black stories that have been allowed to flourish onscreen in recent years, namechecking Donald Glover's FX show Atlanta and Issa Rae's HBO show Insecure, among others.
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In a world where superhero movies reign supreme, and women-led comedies are so rare that we are still namechecking 2011's Bridesmaids when we discuss them, a movie about an all-female a capella group hardly screams smash-hit — or, at least, multi-film franchise.
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The newest hit to be featured on The Immaculate Collection, "Vogue" has Madonna namechecking the Hollywood stars of yesteryear, from Greta Garbo to Grace Kelly to Ginger Rogers, and as a result it's hard not to also think of Madonna as inheriting a bit of their twinkly fame magic as a result.
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Covers of Madonna's cover versions of songs by other artists – such as "Fever" by Little Willie John and "American Pie" by Don McLean – are not included in this list. This article does not contain the media appearances, namechecking and references in popular culture of Madonna singles.
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The term was also used as a song title by the Flesh Eaters Desjardins re-worked several old songs by the Flesh Eaters, notably "Poison Arrow", and exercised his literary side by namechecking Chester Himes, Jim Thompson, Donald Goines, James Ellroy, Harry Crews, Ambrose Bierce and James Joyce amongst others on the track "What Is Red" from the Snake Handler LP.
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His brother John Hartstonge became Church of Ireland bishop of Ossory in 1693. Through the bishop's influence, Standish was made Recorder of Kilkenny from 1694, and also served as Custos Rotulorum of County Tipperary under his father's patron the Duke of Ormond. An anonymous comic verse c.1700, namechecking various Dublin Castle courtiers of the Lord Lieutenant, suggests the ideal beau would be one who "like Hartstong loves".
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According to Pettibone, Madonna was efficient in the studio, rapidly tracking all the verse and chorus vocals in order, in single takes. Pettibone proposed the idea of a rap to fill the middle eight. He suggested namechecking classic film stars, so he and Madonna quickly wrote a list of names and she recorded it immediately. Pettibone also came up with the vocal coda ("Ooooh, you've got to, let your body move to the music").
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The television programme Spitting Image parodied the video nasties with their sketch of a sickeningly nice, low-budget film entitled a video "nicie". Neil Innes' song "My New School" (1984) contains a video nasty reference "It's got all the charm of a video nasty/I've never been anywhere so ghastly, my new school". The Wildhearts’ song “Splattermania” lampoons the moral panic, namechecking films and directors associated therewith, and declaring that “It isn’t real, the nation ain’t in danger/It’s only splattermania”.
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The song, which strays from her usual folk style with simple acoustic guitar instrumentation, starts off with a French accordion and then experiments with dance-oriented beats with subtle urban influences, using synthesizers. The song's lyrics contain a number of references to popular culture, including namechecking celebrities such as singer and actress Jennifer Lopez, model Kate Moss, actor Charlie Sheen, magazines, film culture, and commercialism. "Intuition" achieved moderate success in the United States, reaching number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100. However, a number of Jewel's fans criticized her for abandoning her traditional folk style in exchange for a new pop sound.
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"Popular", the eighth track, refers to the homonymous music blog run by Pitchfork contributor Tom Ewing, dedicated to reviewing all the UK number-one singles since 1952, with the lyrics namechecking several UK chart-topping titles, including Slade's "Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me", The KLF's "3 a.m. Eternal" and Pussycat's "Mississippi". The track combines "radio-friendly electronics" and Cracknell's "sweet pop-soul vocals". "Twenty Five Years" and "I Threw It All Away"—the album's ninth and twelfth tracks, respectively—are both about bad choices; the latter carries "a hint of baroque pop in its waltz-time and woodwind".
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In January 1983, Pijnenburg finally rejoined the band, although he spent a few more months walking on crutches. After a warm-up tour, they taped a TV special previewing tracks off their soon-to-be-released album 4us (creative spelling for Virus), which was recorded before Van Collem's departure from the band. The album was released in March and featured three singles, all written by Vrienten: the second no.1 hit, "Pa" (about a father/son dispute), "1 Nacht Alleen" ('one night alone', notable for its second verse of namechecking girls who prevented Vrienten from having a deserved rest), and "Nachtzuster" ('nightnurse'), which was also included in the TV special.
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