"Dear Future Husband" is a song by Meghan Trainor (pictured), included
on her 2014 extended play debut Title, and later on her 2015 studio
album of the same name. Trainor wrote the song with its producer Kevin
Kadish. Epic Records released "Dear Future Husband" as the album's third
single on March 17, 2015. In it, she lists things a suitor needs to do
to win her. Some music critics praised the song's playful nature, while
others were negative about the portrayal of gender roles in its lyrics.
In the U.S., the song reached number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and
was certified 3× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of
America. Fatima Robinson directed the music video for "Dear Future
Husband", which depicts Trainor baking pies in the kitchen and scrubbing
the floor while various men audition to be her partner. It garnered
controversy and online criticism over allegations of antifeminism and
sexism. Trainor performed the song on television and included it on the
set lists of her tours.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Future_Husband>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1945:
World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force bomber Enola Gay
(pictured with crew) dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima,
Japan, killing about 70,000 people instantly.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy>
1965:
U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act
into law, outlawing literacy tests and other discriminatory voting
practices that had been responsible for the widespread disfranchisement
of African Americans.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965>
2008:
Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was
ousted from power by a group of high-ranking generals that he had
dismissed from office several hours earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mauritanian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
supplicate:
1. (transitive)
2. To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in
authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
3. (specifically, Oxford University, archaic) Of a member of the
university, or an alumnus or alumna of another university seeking a
degree ad eundem: to make a formal request (to the university) that an
academic degree be awarded to oneself.
4. (specifically, religion) To make a humble request to (a deity or
other spiritual being) in a prayer; to entreat as a supplicant.
5. To ask or request (something) humbly and sincerely, especially from a
person in authority; to beg or entreat for.
6. (intransitive)
7. To humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position
of authority; to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
8. (specifically, Oxford University) Of a member of the university, or
an alumnus or alumna of another university seeking a degree ad eundem:
to formally request that an academic degree be awarded to oneself.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/supplicate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now
that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we
are, we are — One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time
and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to
yield.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson>
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