"Shine" is a song written and recorded by American singer Gwen Stefani (pictured) featuring Pharrell Williams, who also produced the song. Originally intended for Stefani's band No Doubt, it is a reggae pop and ska song that is featured in the 2014 live-action/animated film Paddington in the United States and Canada. The lyrics revolve around the lead character Paddington Bear's journey to London and his identity crisis. Stefani initially disagreed with Williams' choice to use direct references to Paddington in the lyrics, but praised this decision after watching the film with her children. She reported that her involvement with the recording was inspired by her then-husband Gavin Rossdale and her children's connection to England. Critical response to "Shine" was mixed; some praised Stefani and Williams's chemistry, while others compared it negatively to their previous collaborations. Commentators frequently likened it to Williams's 2013 single "Happy" and Stefani's 2014 song "Spark the Fire". (Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine_%28Gwen_Stefani_song%29> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 1916: The first Feminist Congress of Yucatán (delegates pictured) began in Mérida, Mexico, to propose reforms for women's social, educational, and legal rights. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Feminist_Congress_of_Yucat%C3%A1n> 1949: In the first recorded instance of strike action by Catholic laity against the clergy, gravediggers at Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York City, went on strike. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949_Calvary_Cemetery_strike> 2001: The first of two large earthquakes in the span of a month struck El Salvador, killing at least 944 people and destroying over 100,000 homes. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2001_El_Salvador_earthquake> 2003: The trans-Neptunian object 208996 Achlys was discovered by Chad Trujillo and Michael E. Brown at Palomar Observatory, California. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/208996_Achlys> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: mickey: 1. (computing) The smallest distance that a computer mouse can move a cursor on a screen, which is used to measure the device's resolution or sensitivity. 2. (Australia) 3. (informal) The noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala), a honeyeater endemic to eastern and southeastern Australia. 4. (slang) A young bull, especially one which is unbranded and running wild; a bullock. 5. [...] 6. (chiefly Canada, informal) A small bottle of liquor, such as whiskey, usually holding 375 millilitres (13.2 imperial fluid ounces; 12.7 U.S. fluid ounces), typically shaped to fit in one's pocket. 7. [...] 8. (UK) 9. 10. (Cockney rhyming slang) Short for Mickey Bliss (“an act of urinating; a piss”). 11. 12. (informal) In take the mickey: a person's (false) pride, which is criticized through disparagement or ridicule; piss. 13. (US, slang) 14. [...] 15. (chiefly New York City, dated) A potato or sweet potato; specifically, one roasted over a fire outdoors. 16. (originally US) Alternative letter-case form of Mickey (“a Mickey Finn: an alcoholic drink deliberately doctored with a drug intended to quickly render the drinker unconscious”). [...] 17. About Word of the Day 18. Nominate a word 19. Leave feedback <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mickey> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day: Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square, From the first point of his appointed sourse, And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse. --Edmund Spenser <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser> _______________________________________________ Wikipedia Daily Article mailing list. To unsubscribe write to: [email protected] Questions or comments? Contact [email protected]
