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Johansen started over with a NYC lounge act as Buster Poindexter, crooning R&B oldies in a tux and pompadour.—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2025 Some high-falutin’ folks croon about eating caviar with sour cream and potato chips.—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2025 King’s Bohemian Rhapsody, which was about another controversial pop star in Queen’s Freddie Mercury, overcame all obstacles and opened to $51 million stateside and crooned to north of $216M U.S./Canada and $910.8M worldwide with four Oscar wins.—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 2 Apr. 2025 This is not a musical where senior citizens walk on stage and croon heartily to advise the next generation.—David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for croon
Yates declined to comment further, but instead sang Mills’s praises.
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Lawrence Burney,
Pitchfork,
28 May 2025
Her father had been a high school band director before becoming associate superintendent of the Fresno school district, and her mother, an administrator at California State University, sang in the church choir.
The internet had been buzzing with rumors that her seductive serenade during the R&B superstar’s live performance sparked a breakup with a supposed husband, but Tillman is calling it all fan fiction.
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Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
9 Apr. 2025
Yoon’s serenade was meant to showcase his easy rapport with Washington, reinforcing Seoul’s strategic ties with the US.
The whole montage was respectful and gracious, with a classical score, rather than a pop chipmunk warbling a sensitive ballad about dead people.
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Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
3 Mar. 2025
Peggy Seeger’s 1957 recording of it is a brisk, warbling take with arpeggiated acoustic guitar — a classic example of the kind of carefree-songbird tunes from the early folk revival.
This intuitive device can automate lullabies and white noise on cue to comfort fussy babies, while daily reports track sleep habits including wake times and length of time.
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Pamela Brill,
Parents,
22 May 2025
The new parents tried everything—rocking, feeding, lullabies—but nothing was working.
The Wolf & Shepherd Crossover Plain Toe Derby Shoes are $87 off and sharp enough for weddings or work trips.
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Rosie Marder,
Travel + Leisure,
23 May 2025
The world’s second-largest economy continues to face a range of challenges, from job insecurity among the younger generation to sharp downturns in the property sector, once a cornerstone of the country’s economic growth.
The reality dance star turned pop singer went from having her honor defended by housemate Chris Hughes on Celebrity Big Brother UK after homophobic comments from actor Mickey Rourke to breaking up with then-partner Kath Ebbs at the show’s wrap party and then partnering up with Hughes.
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Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
3 June 2025
In a recent episode of The Interview podcast by The New York Times with Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Cyrus shared why, unlike so many other pop stars, she's never started her own makeup line.
The spiritual power ballad also drew 918,000 official U.S. streams in the tracking week.
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Jim Asker,
Billboard,
28 May 2025
Dropped with enough time to reach the Billboard charts before fans rush to buy and stream the full-length, the ballad sadly didn’t perform very well via any major metric.
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