"No" is a song by American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor from her
second major-label studio album Thank You (2016). Ricky Reed (pictured)
produced the song and wrote it with Trainor and Jacob Kasher Hindlin;
Epic Records released it as the album's lead single on March 4, 2016. A
dance-pop song inspired by 1990s music and R&B;, "No" has lyrics about
sexual consent and women's empowerment which encourage them to reject
unwanted advances from men. Critics praised "No" as a showcase of her
confident and mature side, and an improvement from the lyrics on her
earlier songs. Charting in the top 10 in various countries, including
at number 3 in the U.S., it earned multi-platinum certifications in
Australia, Canada, and Poland. Critics compared its music video, which
features Trainor dancing in a warehouse, to those of 1990s female
artists and praised her evolution. She performed "No" on her 2016
concert tour and television shows such as the iHeartRadio Music Awards
and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_%28Meghan_Trainor_song%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1927:
Wilfred Rhodes of England and Yorkshire became the only person
to play in 1,000 first-class cricket matches.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Rhodes>
1942:
The Holocaust: The gas chambers at Treblinka extermination camp
began operation, killing 6,500 Jews who had been transported from the
Warsaw Ghetto the day before.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treblinka_extermination_camp>
1982:
A helicopter crashed during the filming of Twilight Zone: The
Movie in Valencia, California, killing three people and leading to new
safety standards.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone_accident>
1995:
Hale–Bopp, one of the most widely observed comets of the 20th
century, was independently discovered by astronomers Alan Hale and
Thomas Bopp.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Hale%E2%80%93Bopp>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
last chance saloon:
1. (chiefly Western US, historical) A saloon located at the end of a
road or the outskirts of a town.
2. (chiefly Britain, figuratively) A place that one is said to inhabit
when facing an imminent disaster with diminishing or limited remaining
opportunities to avoid it; a last chance to take action.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/last_chance_saloon>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Donald Trump wasn’t looking for the right answer legally or the
right answer factually. He was looking for a way to remain in office.
… In our hearing tonight, you saw an American president faced with a
stark, unmistakable choice between right and wrong. There was no
ambiguity, no nuance. Donald Trump made a purposeful choice to violate
his oath of office, to ignore the ongoing violence against law
enforcement, to threaten our Constitutional order. There is no way to
excuse that behavior. It was indefensible. And every American must
consider this: Can a president who is willing to make the choices Donald
Trump made during the violence of January 6th ever be trusted with any
position of authority in our great nation again?
--Liz Cheney
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Liz_Cheney>