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Watch BTS Perform ‘Life Goes On’ and ‘Dynamite’ at AMAs 2020

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BTS performed ‘Life Goes On’ and ‘Dynamite’ at the American Music Awards 2020 last night (November 22). It marked the first time the K-pop group performed their BE lead single ‘Life Goes On’; they had previously brought ‘Dynamite’ to the 2020 MTV VMAs. Check out their performance, broadcast from South Korea, below.

BTS were nominated for two AMAs: Favorite Social Artist and Favorite Duo or Group – Pop/Rock. They won both categories. Megan Thee Stallion, Billie Eilish, Shawn Mendes, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Jennifer Lopez and Maluma, the Weeknd with Kenny G, Dua Lipa, and more also performed at the ceremony.

BTS released their first all-English album, BE (Deluxe Edition), last Friday.

This Week’s Best New Songs: The Weather Station, slowthai, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, and More

Throughout the week, we update our Best New Songs playlist with the new releases that caught our attention the most, be it a single leading up to the release of an album or a newly unveiled deep cut. And each Monday, we round up the best new songs released over the past week (the eligibility period begins on Monday and ends Sunday night) in this segment.

Megan Thee Stallion dropped her highly-anticipated debut album Good News last week, and though ‘Body’ might be one of the most irritating songs she could have picked to promote the record, there are plenty of memorable and hard-hitting bangers on the 17-track LP, including the thumping ‘What’s New’. slowthai announced a new album, TYRON, and followed up his James Blake and Mount Kimbie collab with an equally emotive single titled ‘nhs’. You might notice that Will Oldham aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy appears twice on the list this week: first for his beautiful collaborative cover of Steely Dan’s ‘Deacon Blues’ with Bill Callahan and Bill McKay, as well as a new original composition with Superwolf collaborator Matt Sweeney, the eerily hypnotic ‘Make Worry For Me’. Alex Jayne delivered a soaring synth-pop tune with the nostalgic ‘Pictures’, while The Weather Station – whose excellent single ‘Robber’ we missed about a month ago – previewed her upcoming fifth album with another stunningly affecting cut called ‘Tried to Tell You’.

Best New Songs: November 23rd, 2020

Alex Jayne, ‘Pictures’

Song of the Week: The Weather Station, ‘Tried to Tell You’

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Matt Sweeney, ‘Make Worry For Me’

Megan Thee Stallion, ‘What’s New’

slowthai, ‘nhs’

Bill Callahan and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy feat. Bill MacKay, ‘Deacon Blues’ (Steely Dan Cover)

Watch Megan Thee Stallion Perform ‘Body’ at AMAs 2020

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Fresh off the release of her new album Good News, Megan Thee Stallion was one of the performers at last night’s American Music Awards. The Houston rapper performed her single ‘Body’ live for the first time. Check out her performance below.

Meg was nominated for multiple awards at this year’s AMAs ceremony: New Artist of the Year, Collaboration of the Year (‘WAP’ with Cardi B and ‘Savage’ with Beyoncé), and Favorite Female Artist – Rap/Hip-Hop. She won Favorite Song – Rap/Hip-Hop for ‘WAP’. Check out the full list of winners here.

Good News dropped last Friday. The rapper’s first proper full-length includes contributions from SZA, DaBaby, Big Sean, City Girls, Young Thug, Lil Durk, Popcaan, and 2 Chainz.

The AMAs were broadcast live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles with Taraji P. Henson serving as host. In addition to Megan Thee Stallion, the ceremony also featured performances from Billie Eilish, BTS, Shawn Mendes, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Jennifer Lopez and Maluma, the Weeknd with Kenny G, Dua Lipa, and more.

American Music Awards 2020: The Full Winners List

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The 2020 American Music Awards aired last night (November 22) from Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater with host Taraji P. Henson. Taylor SwiftThe Weeknd, and Dan + Shay were among the night’s big winners. The ceremony, which had to adhere to COVID-19 protocols by having a limited audience and testing everyone who enters the building, also featured performances from Billie Eilish, BTS, Shawn Mendes, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Jennifer Lopez and Maluma, the Weeknd with Kenny G, Megan Thee Stallion, Dua Lipa, Dan + Shay, and more.

Check out the full list of winners below.

Artist of the Year

Justin Bieber

Post Malone

Roddy Ricch

Taylor Swift (WINNER)

The Weeknd

New Artist of the Year

Lewis Capaldi

Doja Cat (WINNER)

DaBaby

Lil Baby

Roddy Ricch

Megan Thee Stallion

Collaboration of the Year

Cardi B ft. Megan Thee Stallion, “WAP”

DaBaby ft. Roddy Ricch, “Rockstar”

Dan + Shay with Justin Bieber, “10,000 Hours” (WINNER)

Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande, “Rain On Me”

Megan Thee Stallion ft. Beyoncé, “Savage Remix”

Favorite Social Artist

BTS (WINNER)

Billie Eilish

EXO

Ariana Grande

NCT 127

Favorite Music Video

Doja Cat, “Say So”

Future ft. Drake, “Life Is Good”

Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande, “Rain On Me”

Taylor Swift, “Cardigan” (WINNER)

The Weeknd, “Blinding Lights”

Favrite Male Artist – Pop/Rock

Justin Bieber (WINNER)

Post Malone

The Weeknd

Favore Female Artist – Pop/Rock

Dua Lipa

Lady Gaga

Taylor Swift (WINNER)

Favorite duo or Group – Pop/Rock

BTS (WINNER)

Jonas Brothers

Maroon 5

Favorite Album – Pop/Rock

Harry Styles, “Fine Line” (WINNER)

Taylor Swift, “Folklore”

The Weeknd, “After Hours”

Favorite Song – Pop/Rock

Lewis Capaldi, “Someone You Loved”

Dua Lipa, “Don’t Start Now” (WINNER)

Post Malone, “Circles”

Roddy Ricch, “The Box”

The Weeknd, “Blinding Lights”

Favorite Male Artist – Country

Kane Brown (WINNER)

Luke Combs

Morgan Wallen

Favorite Female Artist – Country

Gabby Barrett

Miranda Lambert

Maren Morris (WINNER)

Favorite Duo or Group – Country

Dan + Shay (WINNER)

Florida Georgia Line

Old Dominion

Favorite Album – Country

Luke Combs, “What You See Is What You Get”

Blake Shelton, “Fully Loaded: God’s Country” (WINNER)

Morgan Wallen, “If I Know Me”

Favorite Song – Country

Dan + Shay with Justin Bieber, “10,000 Hours” (WINNER)

Maren Morris, “The Bones”

Blake Shelton (duet with Gwen Stefani), “Nobody But You”

Favorite Male Artist – Rap/Hip-Hop

DaBaby

Juice WRLD (WINNER)

Roddy Ricch

Favorite Female Artist – Rap/Hip-Hop

Cardi B

Nicki Minaj (WINNER)

Megan Thee Stallion

Favorite Album – Rap/Hip-Hop

Lil Baby, “My Turn”

Lil Uzi Vert, “Eternal Atake”

Roddy Ricch, “Please Forgive Me For Being Anti Social” (WINNER)

Favorite Song – Rap/Hip-Hop

Cardi B ft. Megan Thee Stallion, “WAP” (WINNER)

DaBaby ft. Roddy Ricch, “Rockstar”

Roddy Rich, “The Box”

Favorite Male Artist – Soul/R&B

Chris Brown

John Legend

The Weeknd (WINNER)

Favorite Female Artist  – Soul/R&B

Jhene Aiko

Doja Cat (WINNER)

Summer Walker

Favorite album – Soul/R&B

Doja Cat, “Hot Pink”

Summer Walker, “Over It”

The Weeknd, “After Hours” (WINNER)

Favorite Song – Soul/R&B

Chris Brown ft. Drake, “No Guidance”

Summer Walker, “Playing Games”

The Weeknd, “Heartless” (WINNER)

Favorite Male Artist – Latin

Bad Bunny (WINNER)

J Balvin

Ozuna

Favorite Female Artist – Latin

Becky G (WINNER)

Karol G

Rosalía

Favorite Album – Latin

Anuel AA, “Emmanuel”

Bad Bunny, “Las Que No Iban A Salir”

Bad Bunny, “YHLQMDLG” (WINNER)

Favotie Song – Latin

Bad Bunny “Vete”

Black Eyed Peas x J Balvin, “RITMO (Bad Boys for Life)”

Karol G & Nicki Minaj, “Tusa” (WINNER)

Favorite Artist – Alternative Rock

Billie Eilish

Tame Impala

Twenty One Pilots (WINNER)

Favorite Artist – Adult Contemporary

Lewis Capaldi

Jonas Brothers (WINNER)

Maroon 5

Favorite Artist – Contemporary Inspirational

Lauren Daigle (WINNER)

For King & Country

Kanye West

Favorite Artist – Electronic Dance Music (EDM)

Kygo

Lady Gaga (WINNER)

Marshmello

Favorite Soundtrack

“Birds of Prey: The Album” (WINNER)

“Frozen 2”

“Trolls: World Tour”

Tips: How to Correctly Use Source of Inspiration for Your Authorship Work as a Young Writer

Young and upcoming writers often mirror the writing style of famous authors in their work. This method helps them improve and develop theirs in the future. Some of these writing attributes young creators emulate include critical themes, language, and delivery. Having a source of inspiration to build your work is the foundation for developing your writing skills, but many students interpret this practice wrongly. Here, this write-up provides you with how you can correctly use an inspirational source in your work as a young writer.

The Risk of Emulating Other Writers

Falling Prey to Plagiarism

Plagiarism is a critical pitfall you should try to avoid when emulating other’s work. Many writers, especially college students, fall prey to unoriginality while writing essays, thesis, and other literary pieces. The educational sector and society frown upon such acts, which is why university students always check essay for plagiarism after writing. Most literary pieces are voluminous, so it’s possible to inadvertently plagiarise from your source of inspiration. So, you must review your work after writing.

Becoming an Unknown Clone

There’s a chance that you can get lost among the numerous other writers who copy a master’s style. Readers can’t tell the difference and might feel it’s just another run-of-the-mill follower. To avoid such a scenario, it’s helpful to be creative and not just adopt the themes or manner of delivery. Switching up perspective from your inspiration is an excellent way to add creativity and ingenuity to your write-up.

Stay Out of Touch with Current Trends

Taking inspiration or trying to adopt the writing skills of famous writers, especially those from a previous generation can lead to you staying out of touch with the current art trends. Find a way to balance both sides, developing a style that keeps with the current and popular approach while doing justice to your inspirational source.

How to Correctly Use Source of Inspiration

Understanding the difference between following, plagiarism, and interpretation is critical to correctly using your source of inspiration. Excellent writers always strive to achieve the latter, as here you don’t copy your mentor’s concept, text, or plots but emulate their style and approach. In regards to following someone’s art expression, writers imitate their source’s perspective and ideas.

Plagiarism is unethical; you should avoid it and practice proper citation during any projects such as a college paper, research pieces, and more. It’s okay to start with following an art expression, as many writers begin with imitation before moving on to emulation. The latter is the basis for content creators looking to find and build their style.

It’s best to identify the writing attributes that fascinate you from your sources. You can emulate various literary aspects of your mentor’s work, such as how they connect their paragraphs, describe events, their language, and more. Here’s a list of these attributes.

Vocabulary

What vocabulary does your mentor use in their work? Do they use complex or simple words?

Sentences

What’s the length of their sentences and how rich are their descriptions?

Use of Figurative Language

Using figurative language in literature helps bring your text to life. You can emulate the delivery of various figures of speech in their work.

Transitions

How does your mentor connect plots, paragraphs, and sentences?

How Young Creators can Protect Their Work from Plagiarism

You can unintentionally fall prey to plagiarism, and subsequently, lose credibility on your write-ups. It’s critical to practice the following to avoid such scenarios.

  • Note all sources during research.
  • Practice proper citation and referencing.
  • Exercise caution if imitating rather than emulating other’s work.
  • Scan your written pieces for plagiarism after completion.

Final Thoughts

It’s critical to keep your work free from plagiarism. Failing to maintain originality can undermine your efforts as a creator and lower your credibility. You can correctly reflect an inspirational source in your art by practicing emulation and interpretation.

Santa Cruz Amusement Park by Ludwig Favre

Ludwig Favre, a previously featured photographer, based out of Paris, France, published an excellent series in which he explores an amusement park in Santa Cruz, California. The series is full of pastel, summery colours, an element that correlates throughout Favre’s work.

Find more work by Ludwig Favre here.

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Watch Tegan and Sara Perform ‘Make You Mine This Season’ on ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’

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On Friday, Tegan and Sara appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show to perform their new Christmas song ‘Make You Mine This Season’. “This is our first Covid performance which is exciting but also a new furry friend of mine makes an appearance,” the duo wrote on Twitter. Check it out below, along with Clarkson’s own recent cover of Tegan and Sara’s ‘Closer’.

Tegan and Sara wrote ‘Make You Mine This Season’ for the soundtrack to Clea DuVall’s Hulu holiday movie Happiest Season. Starring Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Dan Levy, Alison Brie, and Aubrey Plaza, the film centers around a woman who comes to realize that her longtime girlfriend hasn’t yet come out to her conservative family members. It’s set to premiere on November 25.

It was also recently announced that DuVall will be adapting Tegan and Sara’s 2019 memoir High School into a TV Show. Hey I’m Just Like You, the duo’s most recent studio album, came out last fall.

James Blake Reveals He’s Written an Ambient Album, Announces ‘Covers’ EP

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Following a series of covers including studio renditions of Frank Ocean’s ‘Godspeed’ and Roberta Flack’s ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’, James Blake has now announced a new covers EP. It arrives December 11.

“One of the things keeping me going mentally throughout lockdown has been the requests from fans for different covers and performing them on Instagram,” Blake said in a statement about the EP. “It’s been a joy to discover new music and new ways of playing songs I’ve already heard. I might even throw in a surprise that no one has heard me play on socials before. I’m excited to share it with people.”

In an appearance on Radio.com’s New Arrivals With Bryce Segall, Blake also revealed he’s written an ambient album with guidance from none other than Brian Eno. “I’ve basically made an ambient album, but I just don’t really know when to put it out, so we’ll see,” he said. “It’s at that point where you go ‘oh this is an album!’”

Talking about the inspiration behind the album, he explained: “The only thing that would make me calm was either Brian Eno or Ryuichi Sakamoto, and so I decided to just make a bunch of ambient music … I got sick of beats. I need a beat holiday, so I made all this ambient music and I have to say, I love it.”

Of working with Eno, he added: “He gave some constructive criticism and was just very encouraging because you know it’s a different genre and you’re stepping into something that you can’t necessarily just nail. Ambient music can be delicate, just taking beats away from music, drum beats I mean, does not an ambient album make.”

Psychological Principles That Aid Learners Study Effectively

Instructors are exposed to different approaches that assure to enhance teaching approaches and learning. However, some of the designs do not have scholarly backing on their effectiveness in aiding scholars to learn efficiently. Psychology education is essential in learning.

This article provides some values divided into f categories of psychological to help a scholar acquire effectually. The domains are divided into cognition and learning, social and emotional extents, motivation, context and learning and assessment.

These values are particularly useful for instructors who want to provide the best education for learners. They are also effective for students who wish to understand themselves and make education productive.

Cognition and Learning: How You Think and Acquire

Instructors can improve thinking and studying in the lecture hall to help kids learn better. For grown-up learners, they can to improve their thinking and acquire more. Some of the things that you must be particular about when learning includes:

  • The mindset

Your perceptions and beliefs about your intelligence affect cognitive functioning and learning. Encourage yourself and create a positive perception of education to succeed. What you think of education will either work for or against you.

  • Prior knowledge

What you know affect your learning. It is, therefore, essential to read ahead of the teacher to nature a lively interest in the subject and learn effectively. It is the reason why many instructors provide reading assignments to get you posted on the next topic.

  • Facilitating context

Learning is based on context, and it is not spontaneous. You need facilitation to acquire more in education. Providing guidance and instructional materials to learners is excellent for enhanced learning.

  • Practice

Getting lifelong skills is dependent on practice. If you want to acquire new skills in life, you must keep practicing. Learning rests on course. The more you practice, the more you learn and find things to be more comfortable.

It is also essential for a learner to acquire self-regulation aptitudes to acquire effectively. They include attention, engagement, organization and memory approaches. A trustworthy essay writing service can help you to get more information on the same subject.

Social Emotion Context

The principle mirrors the importance of relations, society, culture and health on learning. Teachers can aid learners to foster excellent relations that produce positive results to learners. For instance, education rests on various social contexts such as families, schools, peer groups and neighbourhoods. Interpersonal relation and health are also essential in a student’s life. You can only do well if you manage to balance the social emotions.

Motivations

Find out what motivates you. It is because learners who are motivated in learning become more successful. Some ways that can improve motivation and engagement include intrinsic motivation. Developing inner motivation is essential for learners, for it helps them to mater their goals. They can only persist in the face of challenges when they are inherently motivated. Besides, they need to have mastery of goals as opposed to performance aims. Another critical aspect of staying motivated is making goals and working towards them.

Context Learning

Here the ball lies with the teachers to offer a conducive environment for studying, classroom setting, expectation and assistance is necessary to make students acquire more from the lesson. Learners need a high level of assistance and developing positive relations. Communicating high expectations is also a plus.

Assessment

Valid and fare assessment contributes positively to learning. There are various assessments that teachers can use to know the advancement of a learner. However, different required multiple designs and interpretations. They include formative and summative assessments. Assessment development is a well-defined standard for superiority and equity that measure student’s aptitudes and ability.

These are some of the capabilities that instructors and learners can employ to make learning more meaningful. The learning curve depends on these psychological aspects that a teacher and student must know.

Learners who get the proper instructions from childhood develop into successful students. Therefore, this article gives a preview of what you are required for an instructor to provide to enable learners to benefit from education more effectively.

It only highlights the main ideas of how psychological elements are essential in education. However, you can get more information on psychological principles. Psychology in education is necessary for it helps a learner to note specific strengths and weaknesses in particular skills. Know the expectations of a learner in a specific age group as well as the positive and negative stimuli that can affect learning.

Therefore, read extensively to get more content that is beneficial to both instructors and students. Not that achieving educational goals is a collaborative effort between students and instructors.

 

13 Atmospheric Stills From On Chesil Beach (2018)

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Ian McEwan’s 2007 novel On Chesil Beach was adapted for the big screen in 2017 with the eponymous film starring Saoirse Ronan and Billy Bowle. Ronan – who also starred in the adaptation of McEwan’s Atonement – shines in the leading role of Florence Ponting, a budding violinist. She has just married Howle’s Edward Mayhew, who is from a family of considerably lower social and financial standing. The story picks up just after their wedding reception as they’re heading to their hotel on Chesil Beach.

Inside, they encounter a few difficulties as they attempt to consummate their marriage. From this point on, the film alternates between the present and the past. Viewers come to know who Florence and Edward were before they met, as their romance bloomed, and the conflicts that ruled over their respective families.

The film’s atmospheric setting of 1960s England is accentuated by its beautiful, colorful cinematography. Here are thirteen of the best stills from On Chesil Beach.