Sub 6:00 here, which is Monday territory for me. FRANK OCEAN is excellent and actually pretty accessible for the Rap/R&B adverse. Just realizing Channel Orange is 9 years old already. And when you cross two pop-culture names at a largely unguessable letter, you're definitely ruining someone's day somewhere.Īnybody go with bALSEY bART? How about fART fALSEY? wART wALSEY? I generally agree with Rex’s point, but it really does seem to me that most people won’t waste too many precious nanoseconds on that crossing. Now Kevin HART is much more famous (I think?) than HALSEY, so he's probably a fair cross for HALSEY's not-guessable "H"-but of the HALSEY crosses, HART is definitely the diciest, especially with a pretty bare-bones clue ( 47A: Stand-up comic Kevin). Which is not a big deal, she's clearly famous enough to be in the puzzle, it's just that you've got to watch all of the crosses on her name. I can guarantee you that the majority of solvers older than I are going to have far less of a clue. Or, rather, I know her name well enough, but only as a name. I don't know what I mean by "older" exactly, but let's just say I'm Gen X and barely know her. The majority of older solvers (a huge segment of the solving population) will not have heard of her. It's HALSEY who's gonna flummox a lot of people today. The one problem I can see here, from an ordinary older-solver perspective, is the proper-noun crossing of HART and HALSEY. So you just make your peace with FIRST SHIFT and hope that NIGHT SHIFT doesn't seek revenge somehow. Basically, FIRST SHIFT is disappointing relative to NIGHT SHIFT, but not half as disappointing as the grid itself would be had you tried to force NIGHT SHIFT to work. And aside from being bad fill, PSHAW leaves you with -S-K where PERK now stands, and you can see how limited you are there, and so on and so on. Because PESCI would become P-H- and only PSHAW fits that pattern. Well, you'd have to keep tearing, past BLACK SEA and all the way to god knows where. If you tear everything out, back to STORAGE SPACE (which is a themer and thus can't be torn out), and then try to refill the grid with NIGHT SHIFT in place. But if you try to swap FIRST for NIGHT, you will discover very quickly *why* it got killed off. It is the much much better, more vivid, more familiar phrase, and it is very angry that it got killed off. The ghost of NIGHT SHIFT haunts this puzzle. The only let-down for me was FIRST SHIFT, which obviously, screamingly, should've been NIGHT SHIFT. OK, wow, cool." Thankfully, the rest of the puzzle was strong enough that I never lost the very good vibe created by my early LOW-KEY discovery. But then to look over, see ESCAPE and CONTROL, and not only grasp the theme immediately, but notice that LOW-KEY was crossing one of the very "keys" it was talking about-that the CONTROL "key" was in fact the key to my seeing LOW-KEY in the first place-all of this meant that the revealer landed in a way that very few revealers land: with a genuine, multi-layered aha moment: "oh. " LOW-KEY" is featured in this incredibly stupidly-titled article, " 24 phrases millennials use all the time but no one else gets." So I regular-key liked it. It is a common enough adjective, but it feels fresh because the term has had something of a colloquial surge lately, both as an adjective and (more novelly) as an adverb (e.g.
First of all, I just like LOW-KEY, all on its own, having nothing to do with the theme.
Stumbling into the revealer like this absolutely maximized my delight. Not sure why I decided to check the "L" cross on BIRTH CONTROL instead of heading back to the NW, but I'm really glad I did. She was included on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2020. Halsey has sold over one million albums. She is noted for her distinctive singing voice. Her awards and nominations include four Billboard Music Awards, one American Music Award, one GLAAD Media Award, an MTV Video Music Award, and two Grammy Award nominations. The single " Bad at Love" reached the top-five. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, " Closer", a collaboration with The Chainsmokers, and " Without Me". Her second album Hopeless Fountain Kingdom (2017) topped the chart, and her third album Manic (2020) peaked at number two. Halsey's debut studio album Badlands (2015) reached no. Gaining attention from self-released music on social media platforms, she was signed by Astralwerks in 2014 and released her debut EP, Room 93, later that year. Ashley Nicolette Frangipane ( / ˌ f r æ n dʒ ɪ ˈ p ɑː n i/ born September 29, 1994), known professionally as Halsey ( IPA: / ˈ h ɔː l z i/, / ˈ h ɑː l z i/), is an American singer and songwriter.
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