3 min read Lead actor in the Musical ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Jonathan Groff has won his first Tony Award for the musical revival and thanked everyone involved in the original ‘Spring Awakenings’ […]
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PinkPantheress has explained why her songs are so short, revealing that she believes songs should be no “longer than two-minutes-30”.Last Friday (May 24), the Bath-born singer released her first song of the year, the syrupy ‘Turn It Up’. To promote the single, she spoke with ABC News for their Prime Playlist segment and opened up about why she keeps her songs short and sweet.“I was able to experiment and making short songs was just a result of me experimenting,” the 23-year-old explained to journalist Ashan Singh.
“A song doesn’t need to be longer than two minutes 30, in my opinion. We don’t need to repeat a verse, we don’t need to have a bridge, we don’t need it.
We don’t need a long outro.”The singer-songwriter’s longest song to date is ‘Capable of love’ from her debut album, ‘Heaven Knows’ released last November. The track stands at three minutes and 43 seconds, while most songs on the record range between two and three minutes.
By comparison, her 2021 mixtape ‘To Hell With It’ is 10 songs long and only three of them are longer than two minutes.Music legend Dionne Warwick has since taken online to voice her disagreement with the singer, arguing that “a bridge is important” when it comes to letting a song breathe.Elsewhere in the conversation, PinkPantheress told Singh that she found stardom “very scary”. She added that she stayed “incognito” at the start of her career because she “needed people at that point to have a real strong desire [and] a real taste for finding out more about me”.She also briefly spoke about her recently suffering from partial hearing loss in her right ear: “At first, it definitely made me really sad and it made me not want to do any of my mixing anymore.
I can’t mix my own stuff. It’s pretty
.3 min read Lead actor in the Musical ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Jonathan Groff has won his first Tony Award for the musical revival and thanked everyone involved in the original ‘Spring Awakenings’ […]
Jonathan Groff won at the 2024 Tony Awards, and his Merrily We Roll Along co-star couldn’t have been more supportive of him.
Lexi Carson The third time’s the charm. Jonathan Groff has won his first Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for “Merrily We Roll Along.” Groff played Franklin Shepard alongside Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe who also won his first Tony Award at the 77th Annual Tony Awards, which Groff was also in tears over when Radcliffe thanked him in his speech. Groff’s “Merrily We Roll Along” was his third nomination.
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PinkPantheress has gone viral for explaining why she makes short songs and stating that “we don’t need to have a bridge” – comments that have stoked discussions about songwriting and now garnered a response from Dionne Warwick.PinkPantheress shared her opinions on song lengths in an interview on ABC News last Friday (May 24), the same day she released her first song of the year, ‘Turn It Up’. Explaining why her own songs are on the short side, the British artist explained that “making short songs was just a result of me experimenting”.“A song doesn’t need to be longer than 2 minutes 30 [seconds], in my opinion,” the 23-year-old told journalist Ashan Singh.
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Bridgerton might be synonymous with soapy drama and steamy sex scenes but it’s also known for orchestral covers of classic pop songs.Created by Chris Van Dusen, the Netflix period drama follows the fictional Bridgerton family as they navigate London high society in the early 1800s.After two seasons and a spin-off, the show returned for a third season in May 2024. A fourth season is currently in development.For the third season, Adjoa Andoh, Jonathan Bailey, Nicola Coughlan, Luke Newton, Claudia Jessie, Luke Thompson and Simone Ashley all reprise their roles.