Choose a Girl

Honed over months of live performance, there’s an visceral feel to the album’s 12 tracks, which were recorded (where else) in a church in North London last year. Opulent, gothic, melodramatic and crammed full of hooks, The Last Dinner Party’s album is an antidote to all the quiet, confessional ballads that have populated the charts for the last five years. There’s a melancholy undertow to the lyrics which, in tandem with the title, suggest her frenetic live shows are only just managing to keep anxiety and exhaustion at bay.

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In an act of calculated vengeance, Regina photocopies damning pages from the Burn Book and releases them in the school hallways. The chaos that ensues marks the beginning of the end for Cady and the remnants of the once unassailable Plastics. Across the record, she branches out into electronica, jazz, Chicago house and Afrofuturism, as she explores “all the different ways of existing in the world as a black person”.

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Realizing Janis was right about Regina, she agrees to commit to her plan to ruin her reputation. Sixteen-year-old homeschooled Cady Heron moves back to the United States from Kenya with her mother and attends North Shore High School. Regina invites Cady to join their group; Janis uses this as an opportunity to convince Cady to infiltrate the group for her. The song journeys through various points of the plan which are covered in the movie, such as causing Regina to gain weight and creating a rift between her and Gretchen. In this song, Cady makes the important decision to start acting dumb in math class in order to get Aaron to tutor her. She does this in an effort to continue getting closer to him, even after he says he’s sworn off dating because of his experience with Regina.

• Janis invites Cady to her art show, but she lies, saying she has to travel with her mother to Madison.
• Regina discovers Cady’s crush on Aaron and, in a fit of jealousy, flirts with Aaron before kissing him in front of Cady.
• In this song, Cady makes the important decision to start acting dumb in math class in order to get Aaron to tutor her.
• Only two of the nominated albums have spent more than a week in the UK album charts, while some – including those by Corinne Bailey Rae and Berwyn – have missed the Top 75 altogether.
• Cady begins to intentionally fail math to get closer to Aaron, who invites her to his Halloween party.

Written and recorded over 10 years, it’s a worthy addition to the catalogue of great albums about middle age and later life, alongside Kate Bush’s Aerial, Lou Reed’s The Blue Mask and David Bowie’s Blackstar. Berwyn made history in 2021 when an album of demo recordings became the first mixtape to become nominated for the Mercury Prize. Mean Girls premiered at the National Theatre, in Washington, D.C., in October 2017 and opened on Broadway in April 2018 at the August Wilson Theatre.

• The song journeys through various points of the plan which are covered in the movie, such as causing Regina to gain weight and creating a rift between her and Gretchen.
• Written and recorded over 10 years, it’s a worthy addition to the catalogue of great albums about middle age and later life, alongside Kate Bush’s Aerial, Lou Reed’s The Blue Mask and David Bowie’s Blackstar.
• And Beth Gibbons is nominated for her debut solo album, Lives Outgrown, 29 years after winning the Mercury Prize with her band Portishead.
• Karen Singh (Avantika) prepares for a Halloween party by rejoicing in how the holiday allows girls to dress as slutty as possible without allowing anyone to judge them.

“Work is a chore, deep down I want fun,” she confesses on the otherwise breezy, Britpop-adjacent Cards On The Table. Incredibly, the grime scene is now at a place where some of its originators are hitting their 40s. Among them is Ghetts, who jokes about becoming an elder statesman on this, his fourth album. The record owes as much to the chopped-and-layered sounds of DJ Shadow and J Dilla as he does to traditional jazz – crossing boundaries and challenging perceptions without straying into dissonance or inaccesibility. Black Rainbows, her fourth album, was inspired by artefacts she saw at the Stony Island Arts Bank – a museum of black cultural history in Chicago. You might know her for the sweet soul song Put Your Records On, but a lot has changed for Corinne Bailey Rae since her breakthrough hit in 2006.

The cast recording was released on May 18, 2018, featuring the original Broadway cast. Mean Girls is a musical with book by Tina Fey, music by Jeff Richmond, and lyrics by Nell Benjamin, based on the 2004 film of the same name. Cady tricks Regina into eating weight-gain Kälteen Bars to lose weight and replaces her face cream with lard. The trio target Gretchen’s insecurities by having a Candy Cane-Gram sent to Cady on Regina’s behalf, making Gretchen believe Regina has replaced her as her best friend.

Meanwhile, only one of the shortlisted records – The Last Dinner Party’s Prelude To Ecstasy – has been popular enough to receive a silver disc, representing 60,000 copies sold in the UK. The prize-giving will still be broadcast by the BBC, with the date still to be confirmed. In recent years, the ceremony has been held at London’s Hammersmith Apollo, with nominees each performing a track from their nominated record. Established in 1992, the prize recognises the best British or Irish album of the last 12 months.

“World Burn” serves as the haunting anthem of the movie’s antagonist, Regina George, brought to life by the talented Reneé Rapp. In a pivotal scene, Regina takes control of her narrative by adding her name to the infamous Burn Book — a clandestine repository of gossip and venomous comments meticulously crafted by Regina and her cohorts, Gretchen and Karen. Hundreds of riders join cycling DJ Dom Whiting for his drum and bass party in Bournemouth.

Gretchen reveals Regina’s secrets to Cady, including her cheating on Aaron with football player Shane Oman. Regina’s reputation takes a further hit after a disastrous performance at the Winter Talent Show leads to viral embarrassment. Cady becomes attracted to Aaron Samuels, a senior in her calculus class and Regina’s ex-boyfriend. When she tells Gretchen and Karen that she likes Aaron, they warn her that he is off-limits as he has dated Regina.

Blessed with a soulful voice and a left-field sensibility that stops songs from sliding into predictability, Burns proves she has more to offer than her break-out hit. Last year, the Mercury Prize was won by a jazz act for the first time, with London group Ezra Collective taking the trophy for their second release, Where I’m Meant To Be. They include Leeds-based indie band English Teacher, uplifting songsmith Cat Burns and jungle producer Nia Archives.