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Yumna Yousry
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
yumna.yousry@gmail.com
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A writer by nature and editor by training, Yumna is a fan of the written word and has a penchant for music, carbs and pop culture. Her skills include putting a positive spin on things, drinking tea and telling you which song that lyric is from. Yumna currently lives in Abu Dhabi and hopes to travel the world attending concerts and hunting the world's greatest french fry.

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For the Record: Shakira and Rihanna Duet

Yumna Yousry
 Outkast are celebrating their 20th year and reunion by playing every single festival in the world. An official release on their website mentions that will be performing at over 40 this year,starting with headlining Coachella in April. Here's hoping 2014 brings us more band reunions (Gnarls Barkley? My Chemical Romance? REM? Eurythmics…
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For the Record: Best New Artists of 2013

Yumna Yousry
Bastille Bastille skyrocketed to popularity after the release of their hit single "Pompeii" in February, which they followed up with some pretty solid tracks such as "Things We Lost in the Fire" and "Oblivion". The band have also offered up pop song covers such as TLC/The XX cover "No Angels" and this masterpiece combining 90s hits…
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For the Record: Time Travel

Yumna Yousry
The 2014 Grammy Award nominations were announced this week, and rap is the clear winner: Jay-Z leads with nine nominations, and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Kendrick Lamar, Justin Timberlake and Pharrell follow with seven nominations each. Pharrell gets a double nod for Record of the Year, once for guesting on Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" and…
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For the Record: Pop Princesses

Yumna Yousry
Lady Gaga's album release party artRAVE took place this week in New York and featured performances of all the tracks on the album, a massive sculpture of herself and multiple wardrobe changes, including a flying dress made with hovercraft technology. Britney's new TV documentary I Am Britney Jean will air in December on E!, days after…
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