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• 12 Small Tragedies Of Being The Middle Child

  03-02-2017 19:23
  
  Being the middle-child is the worst.
  
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• There's Now A Way To Unsend Those Awkward Instagram DMs

  03-02-2017 19:16
  
  That's the last time you'll EVER get The Fear on Instagram.
  
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• The Trailer for the Ghost Recon Film, ‘Wildlands’ is Here and It Looks Intense AF

  03-02-2017 19:12
  
  Adding this to our watch list now.
  
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• Rapper 50 Cent pays $22m to end bankruptcy

  03-02-2017 19:07
  Rapper 50 Cent has been discharged from bankruptcy early by a US federal judge after paying more than $22m. In July, the judge had approved a plan calling for the singer, whose real name is Curtis James Jackson III, to pay back about $23m over five years. It comes 19 months after the singer filed for bankruptcy protection due to debts of $36m and assets of less than $20m - three days after he was ordered to pay $5m to a woman whose sex tape he posted online.
  
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• The La La Land Soundtrack Soars Into The Official Albums Chart’s Top Spot

  03-02-2017 19:00
  
  Anyone else unable to stop singing 'Someone In The Crowd'?
  
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• There's Now A Dating App That Matches You On The Things You Both Hate

  03-02-2017 18:08
  
  Because nothing bonds people like a mutual hatred of slow walkers.
  
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• 9 Seriously Intimate Celebrity Tattoos

  03-02-2017 18:08
  
  Celebs who got up close and personal with the ink gun.
  
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• Faith Evans and Notorious BIG duet album due out in May

  03-02-2017 16:35
  
  Lil’ Kim, Snoop Dogg and Just Blaze among artists set to feature on record whose release will mark the 20th anniversary of the rapper’s deathThe anticipated duet album between Faith Evans and the late Notorious BIG is to be released this spring. The King and I has been described as collection of songs that tell the story of one of the most legendary love stories in hip-hop history.Featuring newly recorded vocals from the Grammy award-winning Evans, and both familiar and unheard rhyme
  
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• Move Over Beyoncé: Scotty T Has Some Very Exciting News To Announce

  03-02-2017 16:05
  
  Scotty T is pregnant with twins. Bye Beyonce.
  
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• 11 Celebs Who Have Dated Their BFF's Ex Boyfriends

  03-02-2017 16:01
  
  Did Mean Girls teach us nothing?
  
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• What You Can Do If A Friend Or Family Member Is Diagnosed With Cancer

  03-02-2017 15:49
  
  How can you be a good friend to someone with cancer? We spoke to two experts to find out.
  
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• Jemma Lucy Gets Feisty Over Jodie Marsh’s Views On Reality TV As She Tells Her To ‘F**king Do One’

  03-02-2017 15:45
  
  Ouch.
  
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• Missy Elliott’s I’m Better: a salty, wry and relevant banger

  03-02-2017 15:00
  
  Also this week: Diet Cig bring some welcome tweeness to a difficult seven days, while Jamiroquai is back and very nearly cool
  TRACK OF THE WEEK Continue reading...
  
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• Celebrating the Kinks' Dave Davies: the unpredictable underdog of 60s pop

  03-02-2017 15:00
  
  Ray’s kid brother, 70 today, didn’t just help spawn heavy metal – he also embarked on a solo career than went by in a whirlwind of gold-braided jackets, extra-strong hash and reckless record dealsIt is set to be a gilded year for Ray Davies, with a knighthood and his first new album in nine years to look forward to. His baby brother Dave, who turns 70 today, will be used to looking on and applauding from the sidelines. He may have helped to spawn heavy metal – with that r
  
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• Californian dark-pop trio Muna: ‘We don’t sugar-coat things’

  03-02-2017 14:30
  
  The LA-based band may sound slick, but they pair pop with political messages about Trump, LGBT rights and sexual assault Related: Glitter, glam, gender politics: the LGBTQ bands paving a new future for punk Californian trio Muna make pop that’s so slick you could slip over in it, a lick of gloss connecting Haim, Shura and Belinda Carlisle. But listen closely and their political edge turns out to be scalpel-sharp. After the mass shooting at Orlando gay club Pulse last June, they posted the
  
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• Duran Duran to renew legal battle over US song rights

  03-02-2017 13:56
  
  Pop group will appeal against December’s ruling barring them from seeking to reclaim rights over their own worksMembers of pop group Duran Duran are to renew their legal battle over US rights to some of their most famous songs, including Hungry Like the Wolf and Girls on Film.
  In December, they failed to fight off a bid by publishers Gloucester Place Music, ultimately owned by US business Sony/ATV, to prevent them terminating copyright agreements related to their first three albums. Contin
  
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• We're In Love With Sigala's Beach Shack After His Brand New For 2017 Performance

  03-02-2017 13:39
  
  The 'Easy Love' chart-topper joined Stefflon Don, The Amazons & Tom Grennan for one hell of a new music showcase...
  
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• Maisie Williams and Bill Milner Play Never Have I Ever!

  03-02-2017 13:39
  
  The stars reveal all their most embarrassing, tattoo-fuelled, skinny-dipping secrets to MTV!
  
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• This Week’s New Music Round Up: Ariana Grande, John Legend, Big Sean, Stormzy & More

  03-02-2017 13:33
  
  Also featuring Charli XCX, Syd, Big Sean and Sampha's incredible debut album!
  
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• Charlie Bones: ‘Sometimes there’s no saving people from their iPhones’

  03-02-2017 13:30
  
  The NTS breakfast host serves up his musical thrills and spills Continue reading...
  
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• Rigoletto review – ENO pumps up the volume on Verdi's violent tragedy

  03-02-2017 13:15
  
  Coliseum, London
  This revival of Jonathan Miller’s iconic New York mafiosi staging is as dramatic and complex as ever, even if the orchestra could usefully turn it down a littleFor its current revival of Rigoletto, English National Opera has reverted to Jonathan Miller’s iconic 1982 staging, rather than using the Christopher Alden production that was brought in from Chicago to replace it in 2014, but deemed ineffective and abstruse by many. The move makes sense at a time when the com
  
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• Scarlett Moffatt Has Split Up With Boyfriend Luke Crodden

  03-02-2017 13:09
  
  Scarlett Moffat announced split from boyfriend Luke Crodden.
  
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• Zayn Malik And Taylor Swift Release Separate But Equally As Impressive ‘I Don’t Wanna Live Forever’ Acoustic Versions

  03-02-2017 13:07
  
  We honestly can't choose a fave.
  
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• Moon Duo's guide to psychedelia

  03-02-2017 13:00
  
  Ahead of the release of their new two-part ‘psychedelic opus’, Moon Duo’s Ripley Johnson reveals his key psych releasesAs the founder of San Francisco drone-rockers Wooden Shjips and one half of synth-driven psych pairing Moon Duo, Ripley Johnson has frequently set the controls for the heart of the sun. The new Moon Duo album, Occult Architecture Vol 1, is billed by its label Sacred Bones as the first instalment of a two-part “psychedelic opus” – yet Johnson i
  
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• Hansel and Gretel review – screen-savvy kids summon a Blair Witch fairytale

  03-02-2017 12:36
  
  Grand Theatre, Leeds
  Bold video projections evoke an online forest where two youngsters find danger, in Opera North’s imaginative Engelbert Humperdinck revivalIf Engelbert Humperdinck’s fairytale has always been the opera that young people can get their teeth into, then Opera North’s new version is a Hansel and Gretel for the Haribo generation; in which the Grimms’ cautionary tale exists in a world of e-numbers, additives and internet perils.Director Edward Dick’s k
  
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• 11 Of The Most Insanely Cray Celeb Beauty And Fitness Tips That We Can't Believe Are Real

  03-02-2017 12:35
  
  SUNBATHING YOUR VAGINA?
  
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• Loyle Carner and Drake: this week’s best UK rock and pop gigs

  03-02-2017 12:00
  
  Catch the charismatic rapper destined for big things – and the superstar who has made it already. Plus: Two Door Cinema Club, Raye and INHEAVENIntrospection is key to the south London rapper’s sound, with the downbeat delivery of his debut album Yesterday’s Gone seemingly reflective of Britain’s current gloom. But his live shows are far from moody affairs, with the young showman oozing charisma.Liquid Room, Edinburgh, Saturday 4 February; Riverside, Newcastle upon Tyne, S
  
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• Jemma Lucy Flashes Vagina Tattoo In Exposed Instagram Shot

  03-02-2017 11:57
  
  Jemma Lucy flashes her vagina tattoo.
  
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• Indisputable Evidence That Charlotte Crosby And Stephen Bear Are The Cutest

  03-02-2017 11:46
  
  So cute it hurts.
  
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• Paramore Original Member Zac Farro Is Back In The Band

  03-02-2017 11:44
  
  HE'S BACK!
  
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• Cameron Dallas Teases The MAGCON 2017 Line-Up As They Get Ready To Go Back On Tour

  03-02-2017 11:31
  
  We just hope it’s not quite as traumatic as last time.
  
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• Bruno Mars & Skepta Will Be Performing At The BRIT Awards 2017

  03-02-2017 11:26
  
  This is going to be special!
  
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• FIF: Hanne Gaby Odiele

  03-02-2017 10:45
  
  Queen.
  
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• Beyoncé And Her Twins ‘Will Be Performing At The Grammys’

  03-02-2017 10:31
  
  Well isn't this just the best Friday news you ever did hear?
  
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• Louis Tomlinson And James Arthur Prove They’re Totally Over Any Feud Once And For All

  03-02-2017 09:58
  
  No, really!
  
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• Hardcore legend HR of Bad Brains to undergo brain surgery

  03-02-2017 09:47
  
  Singer raised more than $16,000 via crowdfunding to pay for treatment for severe headachesPunk legend HR, the singer of the great rasta-hardcore band Bad Brains, is to undergo brain surgery later this month after a successful crowdfunding appeal to raise money for medical treatment.HR, whose given name is Paul Hudson, has for some years been having severe headaches caused by trigeminal neuralgia, a rare a neurobiological disorder. Continue reading...
  
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• 50 Cent discharged from bankruptcy after paying off $22m of debt

  03-02-2017 09:31
  
  The rapper reached his target nearly five years early, helped by a $13.65m legal malpractice suit going in his favourIt was a less a case of get rich or die tryin’ than get solvent or die tryin’. The rapper 50 Cent has now achieved his aim and emerged from bankruptcy, paying off debts of more than $22m (£17.6m). A US federal judge discharged the rapper from bankruptcy on Thursday at a hearing in Hartford, Connecticut. The rapper, who burst onto the music scene in 2003, filed fo
  
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• Bey-trayed! Zoë Foster Blake reveals pregnancy with Beyoncé parody

  03-02-2017 02:25
  
  Australian author posts picture of herself in a veil and lingerie as US singer releases ‘I Have Three Hearts’ photo albumThe Australian author Zoë Foster Blake has announced she is pregnant by parodying Beyoncé in an impressively speedy Instagram post, as the singer released her pregnancy photo album.Foster Blake, an author and the founder of Go-To skincare, posted a photo of herself in a veil and lingerie kneeling in front of a photoshopped flower arrangement that mimick
  
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