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please recommend me more female fronted bands or female singers!!

Artists' fame get relative depending on which country/interests we have, so I'll (reasonably (I hope)) list every female artist I listen to and pick out a few songs per. This is long.

Key:

+: has 3 or more albums

*: has some male members in the band but the vocals are all female

[text]: vague genre

green name: I follow them actively

+ Ahn Ye Eun [modernized traditional folk] - Sailing, Changgwi, RATvolution

+ Amber Liu [pop, kpop] - Shake That Brass, neon, Three Million Years

+ Ashnikko [alt-pop, rock] - You Make Me Sick!, Daisy 2.0, Slumber Party

+ Daoko [pop] - 拝啓グッバイさようなら

+ Deb Never [indie, alt] - Stone Cold, Swimming, In the Night

+* Elephant Gym [math rock] - 中途 Midway, Finger, Underwater

+ FKA Twigs - home with you, mary magdelene, fallen alien, cellophane

+ Girls' Generation [pop] - FOREVER 1, Villain, Oh!, Gee

+ Gregory and the Hawk [folk, indie] - Boats & Birds, Oats We Sow, Ghost

Hail Your Highness [alt/indie] - Parallel

HVDES [dance/electronic] - Ember, When I'm Alone, Parasyte

+* JAURIM [pop, ballads] - Twenty-five, twenty-one, 있지

+ Jessie Ware [disco pop] - Spotlight, What's Your Pleasure, Ooh La La

+ Julien Baker [indie rock/alt] - Favor, Repeat

+* Kero Kero Bonito [electro-hyper-pop]+ - The Princess and the Clock, Flamingo

Lang Lee [folk, indie] - 신의 놀이, 삶과 잠과 언니와 나 PRIDE

+ Lauren Babic [rock, covers] - Since U Been Gone, Toxic, Chop Suey (if you like her, check out Violet Oriandi and Halocene!)

+ Lingua Ignota [experimental, industrial] - DO YOU DOUBT ME TRAITOR (be warned, her stuff is very heavy and powerful)

* mamerico [bedroom indie, lullaby-ish honestly] - carioca in paris, esper, natsu no stole

+ Megan Thee Stallion - NDA, Scary (please it's so good)

Nova Twins [rock] - Play Fair, Devil's Face, Antagonist

+ Perfume [pop] - Clockwork, Moon

+* Purity Ring [alt] - fineshrine, begin again

Rebecca Black [pop] - Erase You, Destroy Me, Sick To My Stomach

+ Reol [rock] - 煽げや尊し, drop pop candy, 切っ先

+ Rezz [dubstep, electro] - Puzzle Box, Sacrificial, Paper Walls, Not Enough

* Se So Neon [rock, alt] - 난춘, 긴 꿈, The Wave

SINCE [hip hop] - Let It Go, SWALLOW, BACKSPACE

Su Lee [indie pop] - I'll Just Dance, Dancing in the Wild, Socially Alive

+* Thao & The Get Down Stay Down [folk/alt rock] - Holy Roller, Meticulous Bird, Temple

+* tricot [math rock] - 混ぜるな危険, potage, artsick

+ WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA [pop, EDM] - Edison, Hot Pot Commander, Melos,

XYLØ [alt pop] - Tongue in the Bag

Yaeji [chill house] - Drink I'm Sippin On, Year to Year

bonus, someone curated a list of some banger kpop girl group songs. if you're a little sus of kpop song quality, that's ok, I vouch for around a third of this - that's how far I got into it so far

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The Bassetts

for my marina x simon au - writing a oneshot!

Alfred Enoch as Oliver August Bassett

Gugu Mbatha Raw as Amanda Sarah Bassett

Ashely Madkewe as Amelia Agatha Bassett

Lauren Julien Box as Sophia Katherine Bassett

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Belle (2013) (BBC4, 9.00pm)

Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode) brings his illegitimate, mixed-race daughter Dido (Lauren Julien-Box) to England and entrusts the child to his aristocratic uncle, Lord Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson). He permits Dido to stay, allowing his great-niece to become a companion to her cousin, Elizabeth (Cara Jenkins). As Dido (now played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw) reaches adulthood, she is afforded certain privileges by her lineage but must remain behind closed doors at important social gatherings. However, her head is turned by idealistic lawyer John Davinier (Sam Reid), who is involved in a high-profile case involving a slave ship. Belle is the enchanting dramatisation of a true story of fortitude across racial and class divides. The ensemble cast delivers excellent performances, particularly Mbatha-Raw.

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Does Haaland make Man City favourites? Is VAR getting worse?

With this season's Champions League quarterfinalists now set, our writers answer some of the big questions arising from the round of 16 second legs.With this season's Champions League quarterfinalists now set, our writers answer some of the big questions arising from the round of 16 second legs.    8:00 AM ET This season's Champions League round of 16 is done and dusted with some European heavyweights falling by the wayside like Liverpool, who have reached three finals in the last five years, and a Paris Saint-Germain side featuring Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi. Friday's quarterfinal draw will feature plenty of European heavyweights such as defending champions Real Madrid and recent winners Chelsea and Bayern Munich. Reigning Premier League champions Manchester City are also in the hat along with Portuguese side Benfica, while Serie A has three clubs in the last eight: AC Milan, Inter Milan and Napoli. Our writers Mark Ogden, Julien Laurens and James Olley answer some of the big questions arising from this round of games. - Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (U.S.)

What caught your eye from the round-of-16 second legs?

Ogden: The poor standard of refereeing, and VAR, has really stood out during the round of 16, and it is even more noticeable because the Champions League generally operates to a much higher level than the domestic leagues in Europe. Two English teams, Chelsea and Manchester City, have been the biggest beneficiaries of some bewildering decisions, with German sides Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig on the wrong end of them. Chelsea were fortunate to be awarded a penalty during their 2-0 second-leg win against Dortmund when defender Marius Wolf was judged to have handled the ball. Referee Danny Makkelie didn't point to the spot until the VAR suggested a review on the pitchside monitor. Wolf was so close to the ball that he couldn't move out of the way, but Makkelie awarded the penalty when he should have dismissed the VAR review. Leipzig suffered an even heavier blow during their 7-0 defeat at City. VAR once again intervened in a penalty incident, calling on referee Slavko Vincic to review an apparent handball by Benjamin Henrichs. The reality was that Henrichs had his back to Rodri, whose header brushed his arm and fell to a City player without deviating in movement. It was incredibly soft, but once the penalty was awarded, Erling Haaland put City 1-0 ahead. Moments later, Timo Werner was booked, despite being on the receiving end of a foul by Ederson which could have resulted in a red card for the City goalkeeper. Yet VAR did not intervene. Two huge decisions which, had they gone Leipzig's way, could have resulted in a much different outcome. VAR and the referees have to be better in the quarterfinals and beyond.

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2 Related Laurens: It is probably the most obvious answer (and, I promise, I tried to find something else to be more original) but nothing can beat Haaland's quintuple against RB Leipzig. He might have got six goals had he stayed longer on the pitch, but Pep Guardiola took him off after 63 minutes. The Manchester City striker became only the third man in Champions League history to score five goals in the same game, after Messi and Luiz Adriano, and by becoming the youngest-ever player to reach 30 Champions League goals. For his club, he is now the top scorer in a single season with 39 goals, beating the old record of Tommy Johnson from 1929. Haaland still has as many as 19 more games to play before the end of the season. It is still an amazing achievement; Haaland had eight shots on the night, all on target, scored five goals with an xG (Expected Goals) of less than three. He was so aggressive in the box, so alert, so on it. He looked possessed at times. It was just incredible. Olley: If Graham Potter makes a success of his time at Chelsea, he may well look back on their second leg win over Dortmund as the turning point. Managers often talk about uniting the fans and making their home stadium a difficult place for visiting teams, but in Potter's case he did so in the knowledge this game served as something of a referendum on his management. An unconvincing win over Leeds United a few days earlier had at created a modicum of momentum heading into the game but, make no mistake, defeat against Dortmund would have ramped up the pressure on Potter. Dortmund were depleted -- Karim Adeyemi, Youssoufa Moukoko and goalkeeper Gregor Kobel all missed out injured while Julian Brandt was forced off after just five minutes -- but Chelsea produced a committed and defiant display, overcoming their goal-scoring problems to overturn a 1-0 first-leg deficit with a 2-0 win at Stamford Bridge. The players showed they were behind Potter and although it will be some time before the majority of the fans are convinced the former Brighton & Hove Albion boss is the right man to lead them back to former glories, this win buys him time with a Champions League quarterfinal as proof of progress. They surely aren't good enough to lift the trophy in Istanbul, but, then again, most people felt that way before they won in 2012 and 2021... play1:09 Pep's idols: Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods ... and Julia Roberts? Pep Guardiola reveals his biggest failure at Manchester City was when his idol Julia Roberts went to visit Manchester United instead of his club.

Now the quarterfinalists are all set; which team is your favourite to lift the trophy in Istanbul?

Laurens: Pep Guardiola can be as sarcastic as he wants about the Champions League and what a failure he is and will always be, even if he wins the competition for the next three years. He can talk about Julia Roberts, Richard Gere or any Hollywood actor as much as he wants. His team are once again the big favourites of this Champions League, and not winning it would be a failure -- again. City have everything, really: the manager, the squad depth, the superstars, the clutch players, the winning mentality, the experience of going far and the motivation of not yet winning it. They should have won it already and they will surely eventually do so. This year is their year. The rest of the field is not at their level, not even Bayern Munich, Napoli or Real Madrid. Time is running out for Kevin De Bruyne, who turns 32 in June. Riyad Mahrez and Kyle Walker are already at that age, while Ikay Gundogan is out of contract this summer. Bernardo Silva could be leaving at the end of the season, too, a year after pushing for a departure. The most important thing is that surely Pep and City have learned from their past mistakes in the Champions League: the 2021 final loss, the semifinal of last season and all the previous quarterfinal disappointments. If they can do that, they will finally be ready to achieve their ultimate aim. play2:29 How good has Victor Osimhen been? Steve Nicol, Craig Burley and Alejandro Moreno offer high praise for the Victor Osimhen after Napoli advance to the next round in the Champions League. Ogden: This may be a case of heart overruling head, but Napoli have been the most exciting team in this season's Champions League and it would be great for the game if Luciano Spalletti can take the club all the way to glory in Istanbul. They certainly have the players, and it's not just about top scorer Victor Osimhen. Kim Min-Jae, Piotr Zielinski, Hirving "Chucky" Lozano and Giovanni Simeone have all had outstanding seasons, while Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has arguably been the breakthrough star of the 2022-23 Champions League. The big challenge for Napoli, who are nailed on to win Serie A this season for the first time since 1990, is to hold their nerve and play their own game against a European superpower such as Real Madrid or Bayern Munich. If they stick to what has served them so well, Napoli can beat anybody, but the top clubs usually find a way to win the Champions League. We haven't seen a surprise team win the competition since Jose Mourinho's FC Porto in 2004, so maybe this is Napoli's time. Olley: It should, in all probability, be Manchester City but I can't say that a team clearly stands out from the rest at this stage. Mark makes a compelling case for Napoli -- and an 18-point lead at the top of Serie A gives them the chance to do what other clubs can't, which is rest players in the league to keep everyone fully fresh for the latter stages of the Champions League. City have been knocking on the door for years but, even though they thrashed Leipzig in midweek, they have not been anything like their fluid best for much of the season. The jury is out as to whether this Bayern Munich is as strong as previous incarnations -- although we must all take note when club legend Lothar Matthaus says this group may be their best-ever squad. And then we come to the team that mask their own weaknesses and exploit others better than anyone else: Real Madrid. With little conviction, given Napoli's form, City's individuals and Bayern's pedigree, perhaps Real's knowhow can help Carlo Ancelotti trump his rivals once more. play2:35 Nicol: Only thing for Liverpool is they didn't get embarrassed Steve Nicol, Craig Burley and Alejandro Moreno react to Real Madrid beating Liverpool 6-2 on aggregate to advance in the Champions League.

After Haaland's five-goal haul, what's the most impressive individual performance you've seen live in the Champions League?

Olley: Messi scoring all four as Barcelona beat Arsenal 4-1 at Camp Nou in April 2010. Maybe the Gunners made the mistake of taking the lead. At that stage, Arsenal led this quarterfinal tie 4-2 on aggregate but what came next was a true force of nature. Messi took it upon himself to deliver the kind of virtuoso performance that epitomises his glittering career. The first goal was a fierce drive as the ball fell to him on the edge of the box, the second a close-range finish lifted over Manuel Almunia. His hat-trick goal was sublime; sent racing clear, he scooped a left-footed shot over the onrushing Almunia with embarrassing ease, prompting that worshipping celebration from an awe-struck Barcelona crowd. The fourth came with a drop of the shoulder, panicking defenders contorting themselves in ever more desperate shapes, and a shot saved by Almunia but drilled through his legs on the rebound. This was a high-pressure occasion but here was a 22-year-old making the game look so breathtakingly, devastatingly simple. Perhaps Wenger put it best: "He made the impossible possible." The image that lingers in my mind came just after the final whistle. Messi was given the match ball and as Arsenal's players looked crestfallen, Barca supporters stood in disbelief, the little magician at the centre of it all simply spun the ball in his hand wearing a beaming smile, so fresh-faced he looked ready immediately to do it all over again.

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The beautiful game lives here. Stream top leagues, tournaments and teams.Sign up for ESPN+ SATURDAY, MARCH 18 (all times ET)o Almeria vs. Cadiz (9 a.m.)o Augsburg vs. Schalke 04 (10 a.m.)o Middlesbrough vs. Preston NE (11 a.m.)o Borussia Dortmund vs. K?ln (1 p.m.)o Man City vs. Burnley (2 p.m.)o Atletico Madrid vs. Valencia (4 p.m.)o Miami FC vs. New Mexico Utd (7 p.m.)o Sacramento Republic vs. Charleston Battery (7 p.m.) SUNDAY, MARCH 19 (all times ET)o Sheffield Utd vs. Blackburn (9 a.m.)o Ajax vs. Feyenoord (9 a.m.)o Brighton vs. Grimsby Town (10 a.m.)o Real Sociedad vs. Elche (11 a.m.)o Man United vs. Fulham (12 p.m.)o Leverkusen vs. Bayern Munich (12 p.m.)o Barcelona vs. Real Madrid (4 p.m.) Ogden: I was at the Santiago Bernabeu in 2017 when Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat trick to give Real Madrid a 3-0 semifinal first-leg win against Atletico Madrid, but it was about more than merely scoring three goals, which he has achieved an incredible 62 times so far in his career. It may seem unlikely now, six years on, but at the time the game was billed as a clash between Ronaldo and Atleti's rising star Antoine Griezmann, who was enjoying an outstanding season for Diego Simeone's team. There was genuine belief that Atleti could avenge the Champions League final defeats of 2014 and 2016 against their city rivals, with the France forward inspiring them to the final and outshining Ronaldo in the process. But Ronaldo was having none of that. It seemed as though he was given extra motivation to prove he was still the king of Madrid and he dominated the game. He also recorded two landmarks by netting his 50th goal in the Champions League knockout stages and equalling Messi's record of seven hat tricks in the competition. Laurens: I could pick any moment from Karim Benzema in the knockout phase last season; I was there for all of it. I had never witnessed anything like it before. He scored 10 goals in the six games that he and Real Madrid played on their way to the final at the Stade de France. Read the full article

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“Know in your heart that you are loved... just as I loved your mother.”

Matthew Goode and Lauren Julien-Box in ‘Belle’.  

[📷 Belle my edit]

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Based on a true story.

The mixed-race daughter, Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), of Royal Navy Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode) is raised by aristocratic Great-uncle Lord William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) in eighteenth century England and plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in England.

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Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Dido Elizabeth Belle (Belle, 2013)

The portrait

For many years it was unknown who was the painter of the famous portrait of Dido and Elizabeth. Finally, in 2018 through the BBC's program Fake or Fortune? it was discovered that the artist David Martin, a Scottish painter (also painted some historical figures like Benjamin Franklin).

Here’s an article about the fashion, the artist and interpretations of the portrait.

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Tortall Fancast Series - Daine the Wildmage

I don’t know if other people are enjoying these, but I’m having fun making them, so I’m gonna keep doing it.

Daine is described as having thick brown curls (which are often tamed by a headscarf) hanging past her thin shoulders. Her "soft, full mouth said she was vulnerable; her chin was entirely stubborn." She has blue-gray eyes, framed by long lashes.

Daine was five feet six inches tall at age 17. (x)

Heads up that while I recognize that Weiryn’s brownness is related to his relationship with nature rather than his having any human race, I still picture Daine as nonwhite based on both her biology and her physical description, and I try to use nonwhite fancasts as much possible.

Daine is 13 in Wild Magic, 14 in Wolf Speaker, 15 in Emperor Mage, 16 in The Realms of the Gods, 16-24 in the Protector of the Small Quartet, and 25-27 in the Trickster Duology.

LAUREN JULIEN-BOX - ACTOR/MODEL

Lauren Julien-Box is one of the best fancasts for young Daine I can find. She was born in 2005/2006. At age 9, she played Young Dido in the film Belle, in which she wears upper- and lower-class Georgian clothing. Some of her modeling work can be found here.

MARINA NERY - MODEL

Marina Nery might come closest to how I picture Daine in the books. She was born in 1996 and has been modeling since she was 15, so she has content that fits most of The Immortals and Protector of the Small. She even has blue eyes like Daine, which is uncommon in people with dark hair and darker complexions.

LARA ROBINSON - ACTOR (MULTIPLE ROLES)

Lara Robinson is another favorite fancast of mine, particularly for content that spans multiple years. She was born in 1998 and began acting when she was around 9 years old. She doesn’t have any films with particularly Tortall-appropriate costume design, but her still images have very Daine vibes.

KEISHA CASTLE-HUGHES - MARY OF NAZARETH (NATIVITY STORY)

Keisha Castle-hughes was 15 while filming Nativity Story. She’s got lots of curly brown hair - even frequently held back by a scarf! - and the clothing style is in keeping with the type of thing Daine might wear on the road or even in Carthak. She has a lot of scenes as well, which is always great.

JESSICA BROWN-FINDLAY - ALAIS (LABYRINTH)

You probably recognize Jessica Brown-Findlay from Downton Abbey, but she also played one of the leads in the 2012 film Labyrinth. She was roughly 22 when filming and wears medieval clothing throughout. Her hair’s not quite as unruly as Daine’s should be, but she’s still a solid choice for young adult Daine, say, during the Scanran War.

NATHALIE EMMANUEL - MISSANDEI (GAME OF THRONES)

Nathalie Emmanuel is another actor I like for young adult Daine. She was 23-29 during Seasons 3-8 of Game of Thrones, and she has a ton of varied scenes. She’s big into dresses, which Daine is not, and she has much less hair than would be idea, but honestly it’s so rare to find young actors of color in fantasy settings that I wanted to include her.

ANGEL COULBY - GWEN (MERLIN)

At 28-32 during this series, Angel Coulby is objectively too old to portray Daine at any point in current canon. However, here we are again with that no-women-of-color-in-medieval-fantasy thing. She’s a prominent character with a variety of content throughout the entire show. She wears low-class, high-class, and warrior medieval clothing. She’s super cool and I will imagine her as Daine beyond the Trickster books.

If you’ve got other fancasts you like for Daine, feel free to add them! The full series can be found here. If you have requests for particular characters, send those my way as well!

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Belle (2013) dir. Amma Asante

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Lauren Julien-Box in ‘Belle’ 2013

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-- Stephen O'Connor, Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings

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Belle (2013)

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@arienhod - a previous Goode ponytail for you!  A bit better than the one in the A Discovery of Witches flashback. ; )

Matthew Goode + ponytail in ‘Belle’.

[pics - matthew-goode.net]