coup de main - noun
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Definition of coup de main : an attack that achieves complete surprise.

Phone a Friend: Advice from Baby Queen.

"You are what you eat, so I'll become nothing, I alter my face and they call me stunning," Baby Queen (real name: Bella Latham) sings on her latest release, 'Pretty Girl Lie', a cut-throat take on the relationship between body dysmorphia and online personas.

Using her music as a means to critique society, Baby Queen's number one rule is: "At all times, remain fiercely sincere to who you are."

Introducing: Hong Kong Boyfriend + his new single 'Tiramisu'.

Hong Kong Boyfriend - real name Rob Sanders - has released a new song 'Tiramisu' as the follow-up to his debut song, 'Cold Waters', which sees his musical inspirations of Bon Iver and Frank Ocean fully realised.

Born in Japan and raised in San Francisco's Bay Area, Hong Kong Boyfriend (named after a girl he was interested in who had a long-distance boyfriend in Hong Kong) turned his classical music training into his own project after spending time online, learning to meld R&B, folk, and alternative through the likes of Logic and Garageband.

Listen: Molly Payton shares new song 'How To Have Fun'.

Molly Payton has shared a new song and music video 'How To Have Fun', lifted from her upcoming sophomore EP 'Porcupine'.

About the song, Payton says: "'How To Have Fun' is really just a criticism of 'cool'. I wrote it in the moment I realised I’d been wasting my time trying to impress people I didn’t actually like that much in an effort to be in-the-gang. I was only 16 when I moved to London so it took me a long time to figure that all out, but I’m SO happy I did."

Watch the 'How To Have Fun' music video below...

Wallows offer free download of a new song in support of National Voter Registration Day.

Continuing their roll of endless 'Are You Bored Yet?' puns, Wallows today ask, "Are you registered yet?", in support of National Voter Registration Day in America - offering a free download of a never-before-heard song, 'Bad Remake' (the last to be released from their 'Nothing Happens' album sessions).

Non-American fans can still download the song for free today, after pre-saving the band's forthcoming 'Remote' EP on Spotify or Apple Music.

Interview: Geraldine Viswanathan on 'The Broken Hearts Gallery'.

"The movie is about a woman finding herself and her voice, especially artistically," Geraldine Viswanathan shares about her latest film 'The Broken Hearts Gallery' which sees her star alongside fellow Australian Dacre Montgomery, in a quirky love story set in New York City. In the film, her character Lucy finds herself holding onto mementos from her failed relationships, and eventually finds inspiration and turns the mementos into an art project.

Watch: 'WandaVision' first trailer.

A first trailer has finally been released for Disney+ and Marvel's upcoming 'WandaVision' miniseries, which is described as "a blend of classic television and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in which Wanda Maximoff and Vision—two super-powered beings living idealized suburban lives—begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems."

Watch the trailer below...

Watch: BTS x Tiny Desk (home) concert.

With NPR Music's Tiny Desk concerts having become 'home' events now, BTS are the latest to take part, performing accompanied by a live band in a record store in their hometown Seoul.

The boyband performed three songs: 'Dynamite', 'Save ME', and 'Spring Day' (which was prefaced by some words of hope from the group's RM, "It's been the roughest summer ever, but we know that spring will come").

Watch the performance below...

From my brain to you: Claire Rosinkranz.

"I for one, have such a fear of showing weakness that it is so easy to bottle up emotions that make me feel vulnerable," confides sixteen-year-old California native Claire Rosinkranz. Observing the need for society to normalise the open expression of feelings, she continues: "I don't think anyone should feel like they have to keep their emotions to themselves in order to feel like they will be accepted as a 'manly' or 'strong' or 'perfect' human.

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