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A Perfect Contradiction
''A Perfect Contradiction'' is the third studio album by English recording artist Paloma Faith, released by Sony Music Entertainment on 10 March 2014. Musically, the album is a pop album, with elements of R&B, jazz, soul, Motown and disco. The album received mixed reviews; it spawned three singles; " Can't Rely on You", " Only Love Can Hurt Like This", " Trouble with My Baby". The first two of these charted within the top 10 in the United Kingdom and "Only Love Can Hurt Like This" topped the charts in Australia. On 15 September 2014, it was announced that a repackaged version of the album, entitled ''A Perfect Contradiction: Outsiders' Edition'', was set to be released on 10 November 2014, postponed from the original date of 3 November 2014. It features three new singles; " Ready for the Good Life", "Leave While I'm Not Looking" and "Beauty Remains". It also includes new songs as well as a rearranged version of " Changing", Faith's collaboration with Sigma. Background Faith ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paloma Faith
Paloma Faith Blomfield (born 21 July 1981) is an English singer, songwriter, and actress. After signing with Epic Records in 2008, Faith released her debut album, '' Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?'' (2009), which produced the UK top-twenty singles " Stone Cold Sober" and " New York". Her second album, '' Fall to Grace'' (2012), charted at number two on the UK Albums Chart, earned her two Brit Award nominations, and spawned her first UK top-ten single " Picking Up the Pieces" and the top-twenty cover version of INXS's " Never Tear Us Apart". Faith's third album, '' A Perfect Contradiction'' (2014), was certified double platinum by the British Phonographic Industry and spawned the UK top-ten singles " Can't Rely on You" and " Only Love Can Hurt Like This", with the latter topping the charts in Australia. She collaborated with the duo Sigma on the 2014 single " Changing", which charted atop the UK Singles Chart. Her fourth album, '' The Architect'' (2017), debut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raphael Saadiq
Raphael Saadiq (; born Charles Ray Wiggins; May 14, 1966) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. He rose to prominence as a vocalist and bassist for the R&B band Tony! Toni! Toné!, which he formed with his brother D'Wayne and cousin Timothy Christian Riley in 1986. Originally, the band went by "Tony, Toni, Toné" as a joke, until they realized it "had a nice ring to it". Along with his groupwork and solo career, he has produced and written songs for other R&B artists, including Erykah Badu, D'Angelo, Jill Scott, Stevie Wonder, Beyoncé, Total, Earth, Wind & Fire, Joss Stone, TLC, En Vogue, Kelis, Mary J. Blige, Ledisi, Whitney Houston, Solange Knowles and John Legend. After touring with Prince, Sheila E. and Sheena Easton as a bassist in the mid-1980s, Saadiq co-founded Tony! Toni! Tone!. He went on to release four albums—'' Who!'' (1988), '' The Revival'' (1990), '' Sons of Soul'' (1993), and '' House of Music'' (1996)†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ready For The Good Life
"Ready for the Good Life" is a song by English singer Paloma Faith. It was released on 7 November 2014 as the fourth single to promote her third studio album, ''A Perfect Contradiction'' (2014). The song was written by Faith, Klas Ã…hlund, Adam Baptiste, MÃ¥ns Wredenberg, Linus Wiklund. Production of the song was handled by Ã…hlund. No music video was made for the single. Faith has performed the single on ''Jools' Annual Hootenanny ''Jools' Annual Hootenanny'' is a TV show presented by Jools Holland and broadcast on New Year's Eve as an end-of-year special edition of his series '' Later... with Jools Holland'' on BBC Two in the United Kingdom since 1994. From the show's ...'', and during the Paloma Faith Autumn Tour 2014. The song was also featured on the soundtrack for the '' Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie''. Charts Release history References {{Authority control Paloma Faith songs 2014 singles 2014 songs Sony Music singles Songs written by Paloma Faith Song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&B (or simply R&B) is a popular music Music genre, genre, originating from African Americans, African-American musicians in the 1980s that combines rhythm and blues with elements of Pop music, pop, Soul music, soul, funk, Hip-hop, hip hop, and electronic music. The genre features a distinctive Record producer, record production style and a smooth, lush style of vocal arrangement. Electronic music, Electronic influences and the use of hip hop or electronic dance music, dance-inspired beat (music), beats are typical, although the roughness and grit inherent in hip hop may be reduced and smoothed out. Contemporary R&B vocalists often use melisma, and since the mid-1980s, R&B rhythms have been combined with elements of hip hop culture and music, pop culture and pop music. Precursors According to Geoffrey Himes speaking in 1989, the progressive soul movement of the early 1970s "expanded the musical and lyrical boundaries of [R&B] in ways that haven't been equaled since" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.S. Frith, W. Straw, and J. Street, eds, ''iarchive:cambridgecompani00frit, The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), , pp. 95–105. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock music, Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, wikt:ephemeral, ephemeral, and accessible. Identifying factors of pop music usually include repeated choruses and Hook (music), hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse–chorus form, verse–chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much of pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, hip hop, urban contemporary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment (SME), commonly known as Sony Music, is an American multinational music company owned by Japanese conglomerate Sony Group Corporation. It is the recording division of Sony Music Group, with the other half being the publishing division, Sony Music Publishing. Founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation, it was acquired by the Columbia Broadcasting System in 1938 and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records. Sony bought the company in 1988 and renamed it SME in 1991. In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50–50 joint venture known as Sony BMG to handle the operations of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG), but Sony bought out Bertelsmann's stake four years later and reverted to using the 1991 company name. This buyout led to labels formerly under BMG ownership, including Arista, Jive, LaFace and J Records into former BMG and currently Sony's co-flagship record label ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Infobox Album
An infobox is a digital or physical table used to collect and present a subset of information about its subject, such as a document. It is a structured document containing a set of attribute–value pairs, and in Wikipedia represents a summary of information about the subject of an article. In this way, they are comparable to data tables in some aspects. When presented within the larger document it summarizes, an infobox is often presented in a sidebar format. An infobox may be implemented in another document by transcluding it into that document and specifying some or all of the attribute–value pairs associated with that infobox, known as parameterization. Wikipedia An infobox may be used to summarize the information of an article on Wikipedia. They are used on similar articles to ensure consistency of presentation by using a common format. Originally, infoboxes (and templates in general) were used for page layout purposes. An infobox may be transcluded into an article ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trouble With My Baby
"Trouble with My Baby" is a song by English singer Paloma Faith. It was released on 11 August 2014 as the third single to promote her third studio album, ''A Perfect Contradiction'' (2014). The song was used to promote series 8 of ''Britain's Got Talent''. Background In an interview, Faith revealed that the song was inspired by a relationship she had at the time. She described the man behind the song as her best friend, though their closeness had become romantically complicated. According to Faith, he drained her energy by constantly leaning on her for emotional support and borrowing money, ultimately adding to the stress of her already demanding life as a musician. She wrote the track as a pointed message to him, expressing frustration at how he had become a burden. These sentiments are reflected in the opening lines of the verses: "Well you ask for money..." and "You got problems with emotion...". The song was originally written with Steve Robson in synchronisation with Faith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Only Love Can Hurt Like This
"Only Love Can Hurt Like This" is a song by English singer Paloma Faith, written by Diane Warren. Released as the second single to promote her third studio album, ''A Perfect Contradiction'' (2014), on 11 May 2014, it was promoted on shows such as '' Alan Carr: Chatty Man''. The song peaked at number six in the United Kingdom, making it Faith's highest-charting single as a solo artist in the country. In Australia, the song was promoted through a high-profile TV advertisement for Channel 7's drama series ''Winners & Losers'', and it reached number one on the ARIA Singles Chart on 26 July 2014. In 2022, due to a resurgence of popularity on TikTok, the song charted in several other countries. Background and composition "Only Love Can Hurt Like This" was written by Diane Warren, who has previously written songs for Whitney Houston, Cher, Toni Braxton, LeAnn Rimes, Celine Dion, Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears. Initially, Faith refused to record the song because she hadn't any ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Can't Rely On You
"Can't Rely on You" is a song by English singer Paloma Faith, written by Faith and American singer and producer Pharrell Williams. The single, available for purchase from 23 February 2014, serves as the lead single from her third studio album, ''A Perfect Contradiction'', which was released in early March. It has received some radio airplay, and during the last week in January it joined BBC Radio 6 Music's rotation list on the 'B' list. She also performed it on ''The Graham Norton Show'' on 14 February 2014. Background For her third studio album, Faith wanted to produce a more upbeat album, returning to her soul-girl roots. In May 2013, Faith met Pharrell Williams at the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an Encyclopedic museum, encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the List of largest museums, third-largest museum in the world and the List of larg ... Met Ball in New York City, when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Architect (Paloma Faith Album)
''The Architect'' is the fourth studio album by British singer Paloma Faith, released by Sony Music Entertainment on 17 November 2017. ''The Architect'' is Faith's most commercially successful release to date. It debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 40,000 copies, marking her first chart-topping album and the highest opening sales of her career. Despite its late release, the album ranked as the 14th best-selling album in the UK for 2017, with only P!nk outselling her among female solo artists that year. It continued its commercial success into 2018, remaining within the year's top 20 best-sellers and re-entering the UK Top 40 following the release of the ''Zeitgeist Edition'' in November 2018. The album features several singles, including " Crybaby", "Guilty", "'Til I'm Done", " Make Your Own Kind of Music", and "Warrior", and includes contributions from artists such as Starsmith, Sia, and Samuel L. Jackson. With ''The Architect'', Faith beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fall To Grace
''Fall to Grace'' is the second studio album by English singer Paloma Faith, released on 28 May 2012 by RCA Records. She worked on the album with producer Nellee Hooper, who previously worked with artists such as Madonna, Björk, Massive Attack, and Gwen Stefani. ''Fall to Grace'' was received positively by most critics. A deluxe edition was released the same day, which contains acoustic versions of five songs from the album. The album's lead single was " Picking Up the Pieces", which was released on 20 May 2012 and peaked at number 7, making it Paloma's highest-charting single until "Only Love Can Hurt Like This" peaked at number 6. ''Fall to Grace'' peaked at number 2 in the UK and was certified Double Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry, denoting shipments in excess of 600,000 copies. Four more singles were released from the album, " 30 Minute Love Affair", "Never Tear Us Apart", " Just Be" and "Black & Blue". Paloma embarked on her second tour in early 2013 to prom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
