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In this issue

Anniversary 3 2009 International Year of Astronomy

People 4 Kirsten Dunst

The Modern World 6 Facebook

Place 8 The New York New Museum

Sport 10 Lewis Hamilton

UK Today 12 Gossip

Games 14

Star Quality 16 Usher

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 Editorial
Hello to all our readers,
Welcome to Change Up magazine – the magazine packed with the latest news
and information from the English speaking world.
In this issue you can find out all about the actress, Kirsten Dunst, plus there’s
an interesting article about Facebook.
So get ready to relax and enjoy your magazine!

team
The CU editorial
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2009
International Year
Don’t let’s ask for the moon.
We have the stars.
Bette Davis

There are more things in heaven

of Astronomy and earth than are dreamt off in
2 0 0 9 i s t h e I n t e rn a t i o n a l Ye a r o f A s t ro n o m y. your philosophy, Oratio!
T h e i n i t i a t i v e a i m s t o e n c o u r a g e e v e ry o n e , William Shakespeare
i n p a rt i c u l a r y o u n g p e o p l e , t o b e c o m e
a w a re o f t h e i m p a c t o f a s t ro n o m y a n d The brain is wider than the sky.
other fundamental aspects of science on
our daily lives.
Emily Dickinson

Order is Heaven’s first law.

Alexander Pope

Beckham
to join Milan
Beckham is set to join the Italian football
club AC Milan in January 2009. The other
Milan players are celebrating the champion’s
arrival and cannot wait to play alongside the
‘Spice Boy’. Carlo Ancelotti, Milan’s coach, said:
“The arrival of Beckham is a dream come true!”

Many events on an international level are planned. Amongst
these are the opening and closing ceremonies. The opening
ceremony will take place on12 January 2009 at the UNESCO
headquarters in Paris. The slogan for the International Year
of Astronomy is: “The Universe, Yours to Discover.”
2009 is also the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s invention of the
telescope.
Here are several famous quotations dedicated to the sky and
the stars.
David Beckham is one of the most famous footballers in
the world. He is fifth in the list of ‘Most Powerful
Celebrities’ created by the magazine Forbes (Oprah
Winfrey, Tiger Woods, Angelina Jolie and Beyoncé
Knowles are ahead of him). Time magazine included him
in the top 100 most influential personalities in the world.
Beckham is one of the few English footballers to have
played more than 100 games for the national squad. He
has been captain on 58 occasions.

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people
You probably saw Kirsten
Dunst in Interview with
the Vampire: The Vampire
Chronicles (1994), a film
she made when she was
only eight years old. Now
Kirsten Dunst is a
beautiful young woman
who has made many
successful films, and we
are going to tell you a bit
about her.
The lovely and charming American
actress Kirsten Dunst (Kiki, as her
friends call her) is of Swedish/German
descent, but she was born and raised*
in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA,
with her brother, Christian, born in
1986. She started out in show business
at the age of three, appearing in tele-
vision commercials*. She was repre-
sented by America’s Ford Modeling*
Agency, the most famous in the coun-
try. Until she reached the sixth grade,
Kirsten went to the Ranney School in
Tinton Falls, New Jersey. Then her par-
ents separated, and she went with her
mother, Inez, and brother to live in
California. Her father, Klaus, a German
medical-services executive, still lives in
New Jersey.
Kirsten was a cheerleader* in the high
school she attended: Notre Dame, a
private Catholic high school in Los
school in 2000, she was already a film
star who had already made I n t e r v i e w
w i t h a V a m p i r e . In fact, 2000 was
Kiki’s breakthrough* year, when she
won rave* reviews for her role in Sofia
Coppola's film The Virgin Suicides and
appeared as a leading* actress in the
comedy hit* Bring It On (2000). But she
had already appeared in Interview
with the Vampire: The Vampire
Chronicles (1994) when she was eight
years old alongside stars Brad Pitt and
Tom Cruise, a performance that
earned her a Golden Globe nomina-
tion, the MTV Award for Best
Breakthrough Performance, and the
Saturn award for Best Young Actress.
In 1995, ‘Kiki’ was named one of
People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful
People. Over the next few years she
made a string* of hit movies includ-
ing Little Women (1994), Jumanji
(1995) and Small Soldiers (1998). She
is now working in her own produc-
tion* company with her mother
called "Wooden Spoon Productions."
The name symbolizes women and
creativity and was inspired by her

“
Angeles. But in no way was she a typi- grandmother, who used wooden
cal American high school student, spoons to keep* her in line when she
because when she graduated* high was a girl.

Personal quotes from Kirsten:
• “I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it
doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt."
• “Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect
messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or
don't you? Just tell me so I can get* over you.”
• “Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste
my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on
someone who makes you cry?”
• “I'm never going to say anything about who I'm
dating unless I'm married or engaged."
• “I have never done a drug in my life. I tried
smoking once. Hated it. I don't want to infect
myself with cancer."
• About Spider-Man (2002): “I really wanted the role
because I knew it would give my career a boost*,
especially in foreign markets where I don't feel I'm
that well known".
• “On every film I do, whenever there are other girls
my age, I think it's definitely up to me to set the
pace. That's because I've had a lot of experience
and I think there's always a certain amount of
professionalism that should be maintained."
• About kissing Brad Pitt in Interview with the
Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) ): “It was
horrible, I hated it. Brad and Tom were like my big
brothers on the set, so it was like kissing your big
brother - totally gross*."
• “You know that feeling when you wake up in the
morning and you're excited for the day? That's one
of my main goals* in life."
And on smoking,
one of her pet* peeves:
• “Whenever I have to smoke for a character, I make
sure they're fake* cigarettes. It's a terrible habit,
and I can't believe kids still want to do it."
• “Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone!
Don't they realize that it's gross*? I understand it's
an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends
do it."

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Glossary
b o o s t : (here) encouragement or lift
b re a k t h ro u g h : an important discovery or
development that helps to solve a problem
c h e e r l e a d e r : a young person who leads a crowd at
a sports event in shouting encouragement and
supporting a team
c o m m e rc i a l s : short advertising films shown on TV
f a k e : false
g e t o v e r : stop caring
g o a l s : ambitions
g ra d u a t e d : (Am.) earned a diploma from a secondary p e t p e e v e s : things that especially irritate a
school or university person
g ro s s : (Am. slang) disgusting p ro d u c t i o n c o m p a n y : a company that
h i t : (here) enormous popular and financial success produces new films
k e e p i n l i n e : discipline r a i s e d : taken care of (especially children or
l e a d ro l e : most important part young animals) until completely grown
l e a d i n g a c t re s s : female protagonist in a film or play r a v e : extravagant praise
m o d e l i n g : a profession in which people are employed s t r i n g : (here) succession
usually to wear new, fashionable clothes to show how t u r n e d d o w n : declined
the clothes look and to make them look attractive
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The Modern World
Facebook
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Facebook is the H i s t o ry
internet-based social* Facebook was founded* by Mark
Zuckerberg, a student of Harvard
networking site that has
University in the US, in February
taken over* the English- 2004. It was originally set up* for
speaking world. It Harvard students to meet and keep
currently has over 69 in touch with each other, but it soon
million active members became so popular that it was
opened up to other US universities
who come mainly from and now it is open to anyone in the
the US, Canada, world over the age of 13 who has a
Australia and the UK, valid* email address. The site allows
networks organised into groups such
with 100,000 new
as the place where you live,
members reported to be workplace, school, interests and so
signing up every day. So, on, to connect and interact with
what is Facebook and each other. The company is now said
to be worth billions of dollars, but
what makes it so
Mark Zuckerberg is in no hurry to
popular? And what are sell to one of the big Internet names
those dark clouds on such as Microsoft. He says ‘You can
the horizon? tell, from our history and what we
have done, that we really wanted to
keep the company independent.’
They may offer the company for
public sale in the future.
What do you
do on Facebook?
You can set up your own personal
profile on Facebook by uploading a
photo of yourself, writing about
your interests, uploading your blog
and so on. It is a way of keeping in
touch* with your friends, making
new friends and catching up with
old ones. One of the most popular
features offered by Facebook is the
photo album where you can post
your photos, choosing whether you
only want your friends to see them
or giving free access for anyone to
see them.
Facebook gives you the chance to
tell your friends and acquaintances*
personal news, keep up to date with
social events, and join a huge variety
Mark Zuckerberg,
the founder of Facebook
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of networks. These networks can
give you access to anyone on
Facebook from old school friends or
you can make virtual friends with
similar interests to you.
Facebook and the
P r i v a c y P ro b l e m
One of the difficulties that people
have discovered in using this new
service is the problem of privacy. It
can be quite easy for anyone to read
the information you have put on
your profile and there are concerns
about identity theft. An unexpected
problem has been when Facebook
users have applied for jobs, potential
employers have been able to look at
their Facebook profiles with
embarrassing consequences. You
may not want just anyone finding
out about the mad things you did as
a student! The Facebook team have
been improving the site to try to
address these problems, but
Zuckerberg emphasises personal
responsibility. ‘People are learning
how to use the site and what’s OK to
share. As time goes on, people will
learn what’s appropriate, what’s safe
for them — and learn to share
accordingly.’
It is easy to see why the site is so
popular and so exciting to use, but,
as with any website which has public
access, it is wise to be careful what
you decide to tell the world!
Glossary
a c q u a i n t a n c e s : people you know but don’t
know very well
f o u n d e d : invented and established for the first
time
k e e p i n g i n t o u c h : maintaining contact
s o c i a l : to do with relationships between human
beings
s e t u p : started
t a k e n o v e r : (here) become a powerful force
v a l i d : (here) active, usable
 1 [ ] Access A. (here) a group of interconnected
people with a shared history or
shared interests
2 [ ] Blog B. putting a photo or other
information onto an Internet site
3 [ ] Identity theft C. ability to read or use stored
information or documents
D. description of yourself including
4 [ ] Network interests, photo of you etc
E. an online/Internet diary where you
write your experiences, thoughts etc
5 [ ] Personal profile
Match the F. a collection of one or more web
pages grouped under the same
right definition 6 [ ] Post (verb) domain name or ‘address’
G. put something from your computer
Match the Internet
onto your profile or website, could
or technology word 7 [ ] Sign up be a message or a photo
below with its H. when someone takes personal
correct definition. information from you without your
8 [ ] Upload
permission, eg bank details, home
Use the article to
address etc and uses it for criminal
help you work out
the meaning of the 9 [ ] Virtual or illegal purposes
I. (here) join a group or organisation
word in context. J. (here) something which exists in the
10 [ ] Website non-physical world of the Internet
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Place
The New York
The Big Apple’s The first and only museum in New
York City devoted to contemporary art
newest museum, – art in the now – the New Museum
called The New has no permanent collection. Nor has
it had, since its founding in 1977, a
Museum, has a new permanent home. Now, home is a
home. Of course, this seven-story building that opened last
fall. Located in the Bowery, an old and
begs* the question run-down area of the city, the 60,000-
“Does Manhattan square-foot New Museum building
(built at a relatively modest cost of
really need another $50 million) stands between the dirty
museum?” The city brick facades of a few restaurant-
supply stores (once the main
already has nearly businesses located in the area). It is
1,000 art galleries, smack in the middle of a forgotten
landscape and a new one, for just a
most devoted to few blocks west are SoHo’s* glitzy
contemporary art, and boutiques* and showrooms. The New
Museum wanted a place in what was
fabulous museums left of the downtown art scene – a
like the Museum of revival of history: the uninhibited
characters, seedy* settings,
Modern Art, the voyeuristic* attractions and, above all,
Whitney, and on and rejection of bourgeois tastes, all
typical of contemporary art and
on. But the New artists.
Museum has
The architects have designed the
something completely building as a series of mismatched*
new: a rather splendid galleries. The result? An unusual
structure whose floors shift back and
permanent home,
forth like a pile of boxes stacked*
inaugurated last fall carefully and encased* in a protective
armour of shimmering* aluminium
and designed by a mesh* backed by a second layer* of
Japanese metal panels, giving the surface a
subtle depth.
architectural firm
called Sanaa. It’s the The design seems to bring the
museum’s art to life. At the inaugural
hottest architectural show of contemporary sculpture last
ticket in town. Let’s fall, the walls were left entirely bare,
creating shifting moods in rooms that
take a look. encouraged visitors to view the
sculptures from unexpected
perspectives.
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The rooms themselves have exposed
beams*, painted white walls, and
cracked concrete floors, creating an
informal ambiance* so that the art
itself seems wonderfully accessible –
as though there were no barrier
between viewer and art like the one
that exists in so many contemporary
museums and galleries.
The third and fourth floors are
connected by a narrow staircase*
which emphasizes the distance
between the two and heightens the
visitor’s anticipation. At the top of
the stairs, a narrow space links the
staircase to the gallery. One more
step and the visitor is released into a
huge exhibition area. The New
Museum is an experience as well as a
museum. Critics have carped* that,
like so many recent museum
renovations and expansions, the New
Museum seems to be more about the
building than the art. We recommend
you see – and then judge – for
yourself.
Glossary
a m b i a n c e : atmosphere or mood
b e a m s : horizontal structural supports (usually for a
ceiling)
b e g s t h e q u e s t i o n : avoids answering or dealing with
a point
c a rp e d : complained
e n c a s e d : enclosed in
g l i t z y : glamorous
l a y e r : a flat covering over or between others
m e s h : material like net
m i s m a t c h e d : not well matched
s e e d y : shabby
s h i m m e r i n g : gleaming
S o H o : acronym standing for South of Houston,
Houston being the name of a street in downtown
Manhattan
s t a c k e d : piled one on top of the other
s t a i rc a s e : flight of stairs inside a building
v o y e u r i s t i c : preferring to watch rather than to do
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Sport

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records. He was the youngest F1
driver to lead the World
Championships, was the first man

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to win four races in his first F1
season, is the first driver to have
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 Background
Lewis comes from a mixed family, his mother is white British
and his father, black British (Lewis’s paternal grandparents
emigrated to the UK from Grenada in the 1950s). He was
named Lewis after the great US sprinter* Carl Lewis. He has
two half-sisters and a younger half-brother, Nicholas, who has
cerebral palsy*.
Lewis loved motor sports from a young age. His father,
Anthony, encouraged Lewis’s passion for racing, buying him a
go-cart* for his sixth birthday, but he had to work hard at
school too. Lewis’s father helped to finance his son’s racing
career, sometimes taking as many as three jobs to find enough
money for this expensive sport, and he still managed to watch
his son’s races. Lewis Hamilton is one of the few F1 drivers who
does not come from a wealthy family.

The Autograph
In 1996, the ten-year-old Hamilton spoke to Maclaren boss,
Ron Dennis at a prize-giving ceremony, saying ‘I won the
British (Karting*) Championship and I want to race for you
one day.’ Dennis signed Lewis’s autograph book adding
‘Phone me in nine years and we will talk about it.’ In the end it
was Dennis who phoned Lewis Hamilton after only two years!
In 1998, Ron Dennis signed Lewis up to the McLaren Driver
Development programme and gave him a secure, long-term*
contract. The Maclaren Team trained and supported*
Hamilton through to becoming a Formula 1 racing driver.

F o rm u l a 1
Lewis Hamilton raced in and won a number of minor
championships over the next few years and in 2007 he made
his debut on the international Formula 1 circuit, winning four
Grands Prix in his first year! He is usually described as the first
black driver of Formula 1 and is one of the sport’s most
promising stars.

How much do you know

Glossary
about Formula 1?
c e re b ra l p a l s y : condition
What is the name of characterised by poor muscle
function and limb weakness due to
Maclaren’s rival team? lack of oxygen around time of birth
or viral infection
g o - c a r t : a child’s vehicle on wheels,
often with pedals
k a r t i n g : low vehicle with small
wheels and engine used for racing
a. Ferrari l o n g - t e r m : for a number of years
m i x e d h e r i t a g e : different
b. Yamaha cultural/ethnic traditions
p o d i u m s : raised platform where
first, second and third place winners
c. Renault in a race receive their medals/prizes
s p r i n t e r : athlete who specialises in
short races eg 100 metres
s u p p o r t e d : provided finance and
Answer on page 14. encouragement

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UK Today
Where would we be

Harmless* Fun or Deadly* Weapon?

without a bit of gossip?
It’s fun, interesting and
it sells newspapers and
magazines.
In fact, at times, it
seems that half of the
British media would
disappear overnight
without celebrity*
gossip. It all looks
harmless enough, but
scientists have
discovered some
interesting things about
just how powerful
gossip can be.

There’s no smoke without a fire

This old English saying fits perfectly the latest scientific discoveries
about gossip. Even though people may not completely believe the
gossip they hear about someone, at the very least, they think, there
must be some truth in it – the ‘fire’ which creates the ‘smoke’ of gossip!

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Germany tested students

using a computer game. They found that gossip was very important
when people were making decisions about things. The researchers
gave students some money which they then gave to other players in
turn, writing comments about each other as they played. The study
showed that students gave less money to people described in these
notes as mean* and more to those described as generous. This even
happened when they were shown false* gossip invented by the
researchers and against the evidence they saw with their own
eyes! ‘People only saw the gossip and not the past decisions,’ the
researchers concluded.

The effect of gossip Glossary

Politicians and celebrities have fallen into disgrace*, people have
amazing: wonderful, fantastic
been accused of serious crimes with little evidence, and friendships attitudes: thoughts, beliefs and feelings about
have been destroyed, all because of gossip. It is a powerful thing. something
However, there do seem to be some positive sides to gossip. Another celebrity: famous person
group of researchers in America have uncovered some good in bad deadly: (here) extremely serious and powerful
disgrace: loss of good reputation, dishonour
gossip. They say that sharing gossip between friends makes their
false: not true
friendship stronger and brings people closer together. The gossipers gossip: (here) information (usually private) about
strengthen* their friendships by telling secret information to each a person which may or may not be true
other, whether real or not, with the person being gossiped about kept harmless: with no bad results, not causing any
on the outside of the group. This of course does not take into account damage
intimate: synonym of private
the effect of all this on the person being talked about.
mean: opposite of generous
strengthen: make stronger

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 Quiz
Attitudes to Gossip
Most people, when asked, will say they do not
gossip about their friends and they certainly don’t
believe half the things they are told, but just how
true is that? Take our gossip quiz and find out
what your attitudes* to gossip really are!
1. You read a newspaper article
about the private life of a famous
film star. Do you...?
a Not believe a word of it, it was
made up to sell more copies of
the newspaper/magazine.
b Read it with great interest,
particularly the bits about the
star’s most intimate* secrets.
c Believe every word of what you
have read and decide that the
star is a very bad person.
d Believe half of what you have
read, after all, there’s no smoke
without a fire.
2. Your school produces a student
magazine. It has a gossip page
with some embarrassing
information about someone in
your school who you don’t know
very well (Person A). Do you...?
a Not believe what you read. It was
probably written by someone who
didn’t like Person A.
b Read it with great interest. You
feel excited about finding out
someone else’s secrets.
c Believe what you have read and
decide Person A is a very bad
person.
d Decide there must be some truth
in what you have read.
3. Someone you don’t know very
well tells you some amazing*
gossip about a friend of yours. Do
you...?
a Go and tell your friend what you
heard and ask them if it is true or
not.
b Tell everyone you know what you
found out about your friend.
Spread that gossip!
c Decide not to speak to your friend
ever again. After what you heard
your friendship is over!
d Look at your friend in a different
way, you can hardly believe it, but
it must be true!
4. You find out that your friends
have been gossiping about you
behind your back. Do you...?
a Ignore the whole thing. Everyone
will have forgotten about it by
tomorrow.
b Get very upset and worry about it
for weeks.
c Go and make some new friends.
d Feel very self-conscious and
embarrassed now that everyone
knows your secret.

enjoy yourself...! everything you hear?

seriously.Go out and really believe too honest...!
things so decisions. Do you gossiping about! you may be a little
shouldn’t take before you make any you that people are careful, sometimes
in it. Maybe you check your facts one day it might be happened. But be
must be some truth might be better to they? But watch out, friends whatever has
convinced there spontaneous! It believes any of it, do always defend your
but you are are a little too and no one really you hear and will
everything you hear But sometimes you is only a bit of fun believe everything
may not believe emotional person. more interesting! It around. You don’t
pretty seriously. You spontaneous, makes life so much friend to have
You take gossip You are a very You love gossip, it You are a good
mostly d... mostly c.... mostly b.... mostly a....
If you answered If you answered If you answered If you answered
Your Gossip Profile

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Games
What can you remember from your Change Up Magazine?
Answer the questions to complete the crossword.

2 3

4 6

5
7

Across Down
1 The name of Kirsten Dunst’s brother. 2 The founder of Facebook.
4 Usher is a successful Rhythm and _ _ _ _ _ singer. 3 The name of the Maclaren boss.
5 Complete the saying: “There’s no _ _ _ _ _ without a fire.” 6 Kirsten Dunst’s nickname.
7 Lewis Hamilton’s father bought his son this for his sixth birthday.
8 2009 is the International Year of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .

English sayings.
Complete the English sayings with a word from the box.
Then match the sayings to the definitions.
never apple cooks rains heart

1 I Absence makes the …………. grow fonder. A I If too many people are involved in something, it will
2 I An …………. a day keeps the doctor away. not be done properly.

3 I Better late than …………. . B I Misfortunes usually come in large numbers.

4 I It never …………. but it pours. C I An apple a day can help to keep you healthy.

5 I Too many …………. spoil the broth. D I It’s better to do something, even if it’s late, than not
do it at all.
E I When you are away from someone you love, you love
them even more.

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USHER
Usher rises to fame in the 90s
as an R&B* and pop singer
and he quickly becomes one
of the most successful R&B
artists in the world. To date
he has sold over 30 million
albums and has received 5
Grammy Awards.

Early Years
Usher discovers his talent for singing
at an early age. He joins his local
church gospel* choir in his home
town in Tennessee, where his mother
is the conductor. He signs a record
deal* while he is still at high school.
His debut* album Usher, produced by
famous rapper ‘P’ Diddy, is released in
1994. One of the singles from the
album Think of You does well in the
charts and Usher is asked to sing for
the Olympics held in Atlanta in 1996.

Napster
The release* of Usher’s album All
About U is planned for 2001, but the
songs are illegally uploaded onto the
music site Napster, which millions of
people are then able to download for
free! Usher’s record label abandons*
the release of that album and Usher
begins work on some new tracks. The

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new album is called 8701 (because
that is the album’s release date). Two
singles from the album are big hits, U
Remind Me and U Got It Bad.

Yeah!
The album Confession is released in
2004 and sells over one million copies
in the US in the first week alone! This
is in great part due to the popularity
of the single Yeah!. The song is an
international hit.

A record-breaking album Glossary

Not long after this, Usher releases the
single My Boo – another number 1
hit. Confession goes into the record
books because three singles taken
from the album are in the charts at
the same time – Yeah!, Confession, Pt.
2 and Burn. Usher releases his latest
album Here I Stand in May 2008 and
the first single taken from the album
goes to number 1 in the charts.
Usher Factfile a b a n d o n s : gives up
Usher has per for med d e a l : (here) contract
d e b u t : (here, modifier) first public
a number of songs with: appearance of an album
g o s p e l : type of African American
a. Rihanna religious music, characterised by strong
rhythm and harmonic singing
r e l e a s e : (here) issued for sale for the
b. Madonna
first time
R & B : (abbreviation from Rhythm and
c. Alicia Keys Blues) mainly African American music
Answer on page 14 combining soul, funk and hip hop as well
as trad. elements of rhythm and blues