You assume they had been dancing to Kylie Minogue again in 1978?
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Monarchs! They’re similar to us!
King Charles the III has revealed that he is not impervious to a generational earworm like Kylie Minogue’s “Cannot Get You Out of My Head.” He just lately introduced a playlist that represents the soundtrack of his life in a collaboration with Apple Music entitled the King’s Room Music Present.
Three issues to know:
- The playlist was introduced on Friday in honor of Commonwealth Day celebrations, which start subsequent week. This vacation is designed to rejoice and honor the unity of the greater than 50 impartial nations throughout the Commonwealth.
- The playlist was recorded within the king’s workplace at Buckingham Palace. It goals to focus on King Charles’ reference to music from all through the Commonwealth, spanning from the Nineteen Thirties to current day. The playlist includes a numerous vary of artists throughout numerous genres, together with Bob Marley, Grace Jones, Minogue, and RAYE. Will probably be out there for streaming beginning Monday, March 10, simply in time for the vacation.
- In accordance to the press launch from Apple, the collection will narrate Charles’ life via track, and underscores the importance of music to him: “It has that exceptional means to deliver glad recollections flooding again from the deepest recesses of our reminiscence, to consolation us in instances of disappointment, and to take us to distant locations. However maybe, above all, it might elevate our spirits to such a level, and all of the extra so when it brings us collectively in celebration. In different phrases, it brings us pleasure.”
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Apple’s assertion didn’t specify what impressed the partnership with King Charles, 76, however this isn’t their first collaboration with a member of the royal household. In 2021, Prince William recorded an episode of the Apple Health+ podcast, “Time to Stroll.”
Rachel Newman, Apple Music’s world head of content material and editorial, acknowledged, “Human curation has at all times been a key pillar of our distinctive editorial method.”
The King’s Music Room shall be out there on Apple Music beginning Monday at 6 a.m.
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