Wanna (song)

"Wanna" is a song by South Korean girl group Kara from their second studio album, Revolution (2009). It was released as the album's lead single on July 28, 2009. Various news agencies predicted that it would become their third hit, after "Pretty Girl" and "Honey". A month after its release, the song won the "Mutizen Song" award from SBS's Inkigayo music program.

Composition

"Wanna" is a dance-pop song, with strong beats and a fast pace. It was written and composed by Han Jae-ho and Kim Seung-su, the team behind their previous hits "Pretty Girl" and "Honey".

Promotion

The group has started its first round of promotions the weekend of July 31 to August 2, 2009, starting with KBS's Music Bank. In an interview after their first performance, the group stated that although it was difficult to present a strong image for the first time, it was exciting for the members overall.

Music video

It was announced that actor Ryu Sang-wuk would be featured in the music video, which was filmed from July 20–21, 2009. The actor plays a man whom the group members stalk.

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Free: The Future of a Radical Price

Free: The Future of a Radical Price is the second book written by Chris Anderson, Editor in chief of Wired magazine. The book was published on July 7, 2009 by Hyperion. He is also the author of The Long Tail, published in 2006.

Overview

Free follows a thread from the previous work. It examines the rise of pricing models which give products and services to customers for free, often as a strategy for attracting users and up-selling some of them to a premium level. That class of model has become widely referred to as "freemium" and has become very popular for a variety of digital products and services.

Release

Free was released in the United States on July 7, 2009, though the night before, on his blog, Chris Anderson posted a browser readable version of the book and the unabridged audiobook version. Anderson generated controversy for plagiarizing content from the online encyclopedia Wikipedia in Free. Anderson responded to the claim on his The Long Tail blog, stating that there were disagreements between him and the publisher over accurate citation of Wikipedia due to the changing nature of its content, leading him to integrate footnotes into the text. Also on his blog, he took full responsibility for the mistakes and noted that the digital editions of Free were corrected. The notes and sources were later provided as a download on his blog.

Free (David Garrett album)

Free is a 2007 album by violinist David Garrett, released in Europe by Decca.

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Stay (Bernard Butler song)

"Stay" is the debut single from Bernard Butler released in January 1998. It was taken from the album People Move On and charted at number 12 on the UK Singles Chart.

Background

The song begins with a gentle acoustic guitar, which leads into Butler's vocals. Drums, electric guitar, keyboards and backing vocals all get introduced gradually, before coming together in one last climax and quiet coda. Butler has said that "Stay" is not a love song but a song about change. "The process of change is hard but you've got to do it. It's about when you know you've got to do something but there's an element of risk. It's about when I first went to France to record. A lot of the lyrics come from a conversation with Elisa, my wife. I wrote them on the train over to France."

The music video for the title song was directed by David Mould, whose directing credits include Suede's "Trash", the first single released after Butler's departure. B-side "Hotel Splendide" features lead vocals from Edwyn Collins.

Beulah (singer)

Beulah (real name Beulah Garside) is a British female singer-songwriter. She grew up in the Peak District and attended Repton School. This country setting and her family gave her the inspiration for her debut album Mabel and I. The album is a mixture of folksy ballads, jazz and country.

Beulah is a songwriter, singer and producer from Manchester, England. Her career has spanned 15 years and has taken her from the UK to the USA; to Brazil and Japan.

Early years were spent working with Gary Barlow (Take That) and Eliot Kennedy (Bryan Adams & The Spice Girls).

At 22 she moved to London and met Jon Kelly (Kate Bush) and they, along with Universal Records, made her debut album "Mabel & I".

However she spent most of her career in the United States, namely Nashville and Los Angeles, working alongside Grammy Award winning writer/producer David Foster and songwriter Sarah Siskind ('Simple Love' for Alison Krauss) She was also fortunate enough to sing with Andrea Boccelli.

She has written with many well respected writers such as Crispin Hunt (The Longpigs, Rebecca Ferguson, Rihanna); Steve Booker (Duffy) and Amy Foster (Michael Buble, Katy Perry).

Stay (Sugarland song)

"Stay" is a song recorded by American country music duo Sugarland. It was released in September 2007 as the fourth and final single from their album Enjoy the Ride (see 2006 in country music). Overall, the song is the group's eighth single to enter the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, where it reached a peak position of #2, and has become their signature song. The music video for "Stay" was ranked #10 on CMT's 100 Greatest Videos.

In addition, it is the first song in Sugarland's career to be written solely by lead vocalist Jennifer Nettles.

"Stay" was certified Gold by the RIAA on February 21, 2008. It was later Sugarland's first single to earn a Platinum certification on March 24, 2009. It has sold 1,960,000 copies as of April 2013.

The song is part of the track list for Now That's What I Call Country.

"Stay" was voted the fourth greatest video of the decade on CMT.com

Concept

"Stay" is a ballad of infidelity, taking the perspective of the mistress of a man who is cheating on his wife. It begins with the mistress's insistence that the man stay with her — even if his wife should call and ask where he is — because she (the mistress) is "so tired of being lonely". Although the man tells her that he will leave his wife for her, she refuses to believe him, telling him that "it's too much pain to have to bear / To love a man you have to share".