"Streets" is a song by American rapper and singer Doja Cat (pictured).
Appearing on her second studio album Hot Pink (2019), it is an R&B;
ballad with lyrics about a desire to return to a former romantic
partner. The song became a sleeper hit around 15 months after the
album's release—specifically, it went viral on the video-sharing
application TikTok. It appeared in over 300,000 TikTok videos as
background music for the "Silhouette Challenge", an online challenge in
which participants danced while illuminated from behind with red
lighting. Driven primarily by streams and digital sales, the song peaked
within the top 20 of many national record charts, including the US
Billboard Hot 100, and received platinum certifications in eight
countries. "Streets" was sent to US contemporary hit radio stations as
Hot Pink's seventh and final single on February 16, 2021. A
corresponding music video premiered the next month, depicting Doja Cat's
own version of the Silhouette Challenge.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets_%28song%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1854:
Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses and 15 nuns were
sent to the Ottoman Empire to help treat wounded British soldiers
fighting in the Crimean War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale>
1944:
World War II: The three-week-long Battle of Aachen concluded,
making the city the first on German soil to be captured by the Allies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aachen>
1959:
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by American
architect Frank Lloyd Wright, opened in New York City.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_R._Guggenheim_Museum>
1966:
A coal tip fell on the village of Aberfan, Wales, killing 144
people, mostly schoolchildren.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hide one's light under a bushel:
(idiomatic) To conceal one's positive qualities or talents, especially
due to modesty or shyness; to avoid attention.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hide_one%27s_light_under_a_bushel>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I came into office at a time of great economic and international
instability. Families and businesses were worried about how to pay
their bills. Putin's illegal war in Ukraine threatens the security of
our whole continent. And our country had been held back for too long by
low economic growth. I was elected by the Conservative Party with a
mandate to change this. We delivered on energy bills and on cutting
national insurance. And we set out a vision for a low tax, high growth
economy — that would take advantage of the freedoms of Brexit. I
recognise though, given the situation, I cannot deliver the mandate on
which I was elected by the Conservative Party. I have therefore spoken
to His Majesty The King to notify him that I am resigning as Leader of
the Conservative Party.
--Liz Truss
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Liz_Truss>