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"This is getting ridiculous," Elaina repeated for what now seemed like the umpteenth time.
Matthew had got four out of seven shots into the cups with his previous bag of softballs and was now purchasing a second bag to continue his mission to win her a prize. "That was my practice set," Matthew repeated, as he had claimed previously every time he missed a shot.
He was tenacious, she had to give him that. Every time he missed, he would shrug it off and try again. When he got in a ball in the cup, his elated whoops drew attentions of nearby fair visitors. His spirited attempt to win his date a prize had acquired him a set of groupie too – the teens who had earlier praised his pony had stuck by his side through thick and thin. Nothing achieved the adulation of adolescent girls than a man wanting to be a knight in shining armor, however misplaced that ambition may be. Elaina sighed.
Matthew heard her and raised an eyebrow. "You don't think I can do this?"
Elaina had her fists on her hips much like her mother usually had when one of her brothers demonstrated their overtly macho and competitive traits. "Whether you can do this or not is not the point. The fact you don't have to do this, however, is."
"I can do this."
"I'm sure you can but, again, not the point," she ground out.
She was talking to a wall. Grinning, Matthew turned away from her, stepping once again up to the counter, determined to defeat the wobbling cups.
Elaina noticed the change in him immediately from how the sinews of his raised forearms peeked out from under his rolled up sleeves, more defined than before, the fine white cotton of his shirt stretching over his biceps and broad back, as though he was holding something much heavier than a softball. He crouched slightly, balancing himself on his calves and she appreciated as even the denim over his buttocks flexed. Whether he won her a toy today or not, she was going to reward him tonight for trying because his attempt was a fine thing to look at.
Then there was cheer all around them and Elaina looked up to find that a larger crowd had joined the audience and Matthew had made the first shot. "Nice to see high school basketball still paying off," he said gleefully, brushing a quick kiss on her startled lips.
Elaina watched as Matthew waited for the cups to give their scheduled shake and the ball he had got in to tip out. Matthew nodded as the small crowd around them despaired. Then he waited again.
The attendant clearly did not enjoy being painted the villain here because it was clear that the crowd wanted the city guest to win. "C'mon, fella. I don't have all day here."
"All day is exactly what you have," someone jeered from the crowd, followed by titters.
Matthew grinned, poised for the next shot. "It's alright, folks," he pacified his fans. "At the next wobble." And then there was the wobble and Matthew made his shot, followed by quick successions of four more shots. Five consecutive balls, five victorious shots.
Elaina looked on, stunned, as Matthew turned around with jubilation coloring his features. He chest bumped with a random stranger in the crowd, fist bumped with one of the adoring teens and then suddenly he was upon her, grabbing her around the waist and lifting her up, Palomino and photo accessories included, planting a proprietary kiss on her mouth. Then he set her down, his eyes still twinkling with triumph as he turned towards the bemused attendant. He bowed, gallantly presenting the bag with the last softball still in it and cleared his throat before saying, "May I select my prize now?"
The attendant took the bag and waved towards the shelves grudgingly. "Please. Don't let me keep you waiting like you did me."
"The Royal Bengal Tiger. It fits so well with my lady here," he said immediately, pointing to the large striped animal perched near the top of the toy pile. The attendant used a hooked staff to fetch it for him and Matthew thanked the guy before turning to her. "Here. Wait. Let me take my pony and bag back first." They exchanged toys and belongings as the crowd around them dispersed, shooting them a few final thumbs-up.
"So, high school basketball?" Elaina asked, hugging her tiger. She liked it very much, and not just because it was the first prize a guy she was dating had ever won for her, though she believed that might have tipped the scale in the tiger's favor greatly. But it was really an adorable tiger, all the same, with its orange and black fuzziness.
"Yes. Point guard for the Gedney Park High School, Class of '84," Matthew replied as they strolled side by side, two adults with not a care in the world and immensely happy with the giant plush toys they were carrying.
"Seems like you were pretty good at it," she probed, wanting to know more about him.
"I played all through high school and got into college on a basketball scholarship," explained he casually but she could trace a resignation in his voice. "But then I had a courtyard accident in my second year, injuring my heel. I was benched for six months while my heel convalesced. But when I got back to playing, I didn't perform up to the mark and then ended up landing on my heel poorly again, once more injuring myself. That was the end of my basketball career."
Elaina whistled sympathetically. "That must've been awful."
Matthew laughed ruefully. "That's an understatement. But not because of the reason you may think. I still love basketball but even then I knew I wasn't going to join the NBA after college so I was less disappointed about not playing on the team than I had expected. I was more concerned about the loss of funds for my education. I had a second, loftier ambition.
"I was also in my high school photography club and pursued my college degree on fine arts in photography, which basketball was financing. A bummed heel meant my sports-aid was not going to be renewed and I had two more years of studying to do yet. Thankfully, I had a superb faculty who had faith in me and I was offered a TA position with one of my professors. I no longer had the glamorous lifestyle of an athlete but it partially compensated the tuition fees. Plus, being a TA meant I learnt more and had greater opportunity to hon my skills. Meanwhile, my frat brothers were great about living costs, making concessions when I was a bit behind. I eventually joined a local art gallery part-time to further substitute my lost basketball funding. I guess I got really lucky."
Elaina marveled as she took this information in. He obviously did not have a carefree past and that made him seem all the more intriguing. His easy grace, good humor and debonair style had all suggested that he may have been born under an affluent star. Plus, she admitted to herself with deprecation, his being Brooke's friend had also prejudiced her against him, believing any friend of Brooke must be as frivolous as she. It seemed Elaina had been unfair to Matthew and should be more sympathetic. It was obvious he was a man who worked hard towards overcoming his challenges and that was a trait she could always admire. His open, cheerful nature was not a resulted by comfort but sustained despite adversities. He just knew how to make life enjoyable.
"And you were in a frat."
Something in her voice must have belied her approbation because he stopped to look at her and then grinned. "Don't tell me you have something against frats."
Elaina shrugged. "I have something against anything exclusive in nature."
"You would not give me the benefit of doubt because I am from the city," he reminded incredulously.
Matthew began walking again though with no seeming destination in mind. "My frat really was there for me when I needed them most. They helped me hang in there when I was injured and could no longer play basketball. My scholarship became null and photography equipment don't come cheap. They pitched in as I got my finances back together with the TA position and a second job at the gallery. They're my brothers for life," he concluded, no room for argument.
Having built her understanding on such societies from what she had gleaned from magazines and movies, which mostly depicted an imagery of alcohol-induced abandonment, elitism and hazing-related accidents, she was not entirely bought over by his defense. But as he had managed to curb some of her previously harbored preconceptions about him, she decided to give him the benefit of the doubt. "It's nice that you have such great friends."
Even as she said the words she felt a twist in her heart for the friendship she no longer had. No matter how much time passed, it seemed that she could not accept that she had misplaced her trust in Brooke. But she did not want to dwell on Brooke's betrayal on a day as lovely as this, especially when spending it with Matthew. "The sun will set soon and there are always fireworks afterward. I know a great place by the lake where the sights are most thrilling. It's a mile up the creek."
Matthew smiled at her askance. "Fireworks by the lake sound great."
Elaina blushed as she stated the adjunct of her proposal. "It's not amongst the main throng mind you. You may not have many subjects for your series."
Matthew turned to her with a glow in his eyes. "A private viewing of the fireworks by lake sounds even better."
Elaina took stock of his obvious interest for fortification. "Good. Let's grab some food to go and we can make this into a picnic dinner."
The fireworks were spectacular. Too bad he could not appreciate it as was due. The drive to the lake was mostly traveled in silence, the tension inside the pickup palpable. That they would be quite alone at the lake had been hinted and anticipation of the next time when he would touch her, kiss her, bury himself in her was primary on his mind – and he doubted that her thoughts were far different from his. If letting her slip out of his borrowed bedroom that morning required his restraint, knowing that they were now sitting by the lake, quite alone and with no one to interrupt them, tried his willpower like nothing had ever before.
Which was absolutely ridiculous, Matthew told himself, when he curbed his sexual reverie long enough to think about it. True, he had known there was something extraordinary about Elaina the moment he had laid his eyes on her, even if initially simply from the keenness of a photographer's eye. But with each meeting, she had piqued his interest in new ways. First with her contrary manners that he found amusing, then with her dedication to her work and family, and just when he thought that being a cowgirl was the nucleus of her makeup, she allowed him to see her feminine sensuality. It had him consumed with thoughts of her whether she was sitting by his side on the back of her pickup truck or away in the neighboring ranch.
He had been with many women since puberty. A star athlete, girls had come to him easily in high school. He took advantage of it with caution, at least as much as the conflict between morals taught by his parents and the raging hormones of his adolescence would allow. But college had proved more liberating. College women were eager to discover their sexuality and he assisted them wherever he was able. By the time he began working as a fashion photographer post-college to save up to work independently, there were gorgeous women everywhere ripe for the picking. Now, as a distinguished artist of the world, he demonstrated more discretion but women were still available as much as ever. He had just learnt to be more discriminating, as experience and wisdom dictated.
So when he was hit by the existence of Elaina, he felt stumped. He had to admit that he was expecting nothing more than a bit of diversion while he accompanied a good friend in the country as he went about working on his upcoming series. It was a relief when he saw that she was not looking for anything more than a summer romance, a bit of experiment between two people from different walks of life to see how the erotic force building between them fared. He was sure that for him, at least, the release would come with consummating that force. But even last night, when she was writhing in ecstasy in his arms, he felt himself become tangled further and further in her allure. The more she unraveled, the more she became a mystery.
But he knew mystery was not the real quandary here. The trouble was that he had gotten to know her while pursuing her and that did not allay him of his desire for her. No, knowing her only made him like her more. Even the insecurities he often sensed rearing up inside her, the way she so often put up her barriers, made him want to take care of her. He could tell that spending time with him was helping her slowly lay those insecurities to rest and he felt a sense of purpose in the role he played in this change.
It may have been the reason why he had jumped to tell her that he was contemplating prolonging his stay in Lainie's Creek. She was quickly shutting him out after that quack fortuneteller regaled them with the town's gloomy history and he was not ready to give her up. The truth was that until that moment, he had not at all considered staying back in Texas when Brooke returned to New York. His life was in New York. His work was there and he never let it take a back seat no matter the circumstance.
He had plenty of great shots for his series from his week on the Coreys' ranch and around the countryside. Yet, when he had seen the look of humiliation on her pretty face, his heart tugged. The sight of dejection in a woman as fiery as Elaina Corey was too much for even his pragmatic sensibilities. Suddenly, he had discovered he would do anything to make her believe that their affair was much, much more than whatever the legendary Lainie and William had. He would take as long as it took to prove it to her. And the idea of staying behind to do just that popped into his head. And no sooner than it was in his head, it was out of his mouth.
But even as he realized how impractical his proposal had been, he had not wanted to take it back. And then he had waited with baited breath for her to reject him like she always did when he proposed a romantic notion. Yet she hadn't. She absorbed his words with a calm very unlike her and then she had accepted his offer. She was a challenge and a contradiction and utterly irresistible. Irresistibly kissable.
And we are back to square one. He sighed with resignation.
"Penny for your thoughts," Elaina's soft voice interrupted his thoughts.
Matthew turned to face Elaina. She was not looking at him but at the sky, leaning back with her weight braced on her hands behind her. He watched as another fountain of colors erupted in the sky with a grumbling blast, showering her beautiful profile with the reflection of its lights. He could drink her in like this insatiably. "I'm thinking about you obviously."
She looked at him, a playful smile tugging the corners of her lovely lips. "Me? But I am right here."
"It seems that I like thinking about you no matter where you are."
She ducked her head and he knew, even though the lights did not allow him to see, that she blushed. "And what is it that you are thinking?"
He leaned towards her, brushing her shoulder with his. "Only how much I like kissing you."
"S-so why don't you do it more often?"
He loved that he could make her voice hitch like that. "Well, we just ate and I did not want you to think I only had one thing on my mind. Didn't want to seem like I was taking advantage of our solitude with unwanted advances."
"They will not be unwanted."
Her voice was barely a whisper and it flitted over his skin, quickening it with a surge of energy that needed immediate expelling. He was grateful for her generous words and moved in without delay, eager to display his gratitude. He reached for her, sliding his hand over the nape of her neck, combing his finger through her loose hair to pull her in for a kiss. His lips drew in hers with a delicious suction and he rolled his tongue over their seam until he gained access to her honeyed mouth.
He knew he should take it slower, show more finesse. Perhaps he could have been more suave had he not been waiting to make love to her the whole day. It had been the first day, too, that he had had her undivided attention away from her work at the ranch, where they just had fun. After the small hiccup at the fortune-teller, she had become as carefree as he had ever seen her and it had driven him mad. Her unfettered laughter, wry mischief, challenging responses had all stoked his fire. He needed that raw Elaina again, in all her abandonment.
Pausing to allow them both some air, Matthew let his intention be known. "Elaina, I want to make love to you. Is that okay?"
Her eyes were closed. She opened them now but barely, drowsy with the high of their kiss. "Here?"
Matthew swallowed, wondering how much longer he would have to wait to reach wherever place she thought appropriate for lovemaking but conceded. "Wherever you want but tonight."
"Here is good."
There was that generosity again. He thanked her with another deep kiss, teasing her tongue the way he already knew she liked. She mimicked her, winning a groan of approval from him. Gently, he pressed her down on the back of the pickup, appreciative that at least they had laid out a blanket on it earlier, a surprisingly clean one. His hands were already roving over her accommodating body, one unclasping the buttons of her blouse while the other wrapped about the back of her thigh to pull it across his hip, drawing her closer. He ground himself into the cleft of her legs to demonstrate just how hard she was making him and smiled into her mouth when she moaned with pleasure.
Her blouse undone, he pulled his mouth from hers to look at what he had exposed. She was wearing a simple white bra under the yellow blouse with the merest strip of lace and a satin bow resting on the valley of her breasts. Nothing like the sexy lingerie he used to photograph on models she could make his mouth water for her without them just fine. The skin on the swell of her breasts was paler than on her neck and face yet he could only admire the imperfection of the tan. Her beauty was artless. She was the nature of American country personified. He kissed those swells with reverence, each in their turn, brushing the heat of his mouth over her skin. He felt her move restlessly under him and took it as instruction to pull the edge of bra down, revealing a dusky taut nipple. Biting in, he tasted her, rolling his tongue over the roused peak, drawing out a startled hiss from her. She was a bit salty from the heat of a day spent out in the sun. She was delicious. He needed more.
Quickly, he pushed the blouse off her shoulders, pausing when he noticed a discoloration on her left shoulder. Evidence of their lovemaking from the previous night. He brushed the mark with a finger.
"Ma noticed it this morning." Matthew found her watching him so he raised an eyebrow in question. "She suggested I might want to wear a scarf or something to cover it up before heading to the fair so I went and changed my shirt," she explained.
"So we're in the clear," he asked. He was not sure how the progress in their courtship would be accepted by her mother. Hayden, he knew, would have come for his blood by now.
Elaina stared as though in deep reflection before answering. "Yes, I think so."
"Well, good to see you are so enthusiastic," he grumbled with a frown.
"Oh, but I am enthusiastic," she chuckled, drawing a long finger over his brow, teasing it down the bridge of his nose.
Matthew nipped her fingertip as it reached his mouth, touching the pad gently with his tongue. "I'm glad because, like it or not, I plan to debauch you right now."
"Debauch? Don't take your sweet time!"
He took her words to heart. Soon they were burning away skin to skin and moving in a rhythm that perfectly complemented each other's every desire. They kissed and touched and he was buried in her warmth just as he had longed the entire day. When they came, they came together, each liberated by the experience. The last thing he saw before they collapsed into the afterglow was the beautiful image of her arched over him much like the way he had seen her the first time through the lens of his camera, in the throes of her passion. And, as though to emulate the culmination of their experience, a final stray firework burst into a shower of colors in the sky behind her.
The fireworks were really spectacular. And he could finally appreciate them as was due.
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Singer-songwriter and actress Mariah Carey is known as the Songbird Supreme for her mind-blowing five-octave vocal range and utilization of the whistle register which has led her to have an extensive history topping the Billboard charts as one of the worlds greatest pop stars. Jacksons solo career blossomed, as by the end of the 1990s, she was one of the most successful recording artists. Her sound continued to infect the decade, releasing few other chart-topping singles, like Sk8er Boi and My Happy Ending., Storming the pop scene in the late-nineties, Britney Spears remained a prominent force in the new millennium. Beginning her career as a teenager, she went on to become one of the world's best-selling music artists of all time. Coldplay 4. Brenda Lee, Connie Francis, Aretha Franklin, and Dionne Warwick Who are the Famous singers in France from 2000s? Getting her start in acting at the age of 16 after moving to Los Angeles, Cher met her husband Sonny Bono in 1962 when he was working for record producer Phil Spector. The fusion of programmed beats and synthesizer sounds in Eurodance formats became an integral part of pop music in this decade. Often referred to as the Princess of Pop, Britney Jean Spears is known for influencing the revival of teen pop music throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s making her one of the worlds biggest pop icons. A new brigade of girl groups emerged with their fiery brand of pop, dance-pop, and R&B in the 2000s. According to Billboard, Shania Twain is the 13th Greatest Music Video Female Solo Artist ever. During the 1990s she saw worldwide success for her albums Falling into You and Lets Talk About Love, as well as for her now hit singles The Power of Love, Im Your Angel and My Heart Will Go On which was featured in the Academy Award winning 1997 film, Titanic. Faith Hill's single "Breathe" was the first country music recording to be ranked number one since Johnny Horton's "The Battle of New Orleans" in 1959. What would the pop music industry be without its leading female vocalists?! When you were in the mood to don a fluffy robe and stare wistfully into the empty, rainy abyss, "Come Clean" was the only soundtrack option. One of the most decorated singer-songwriters, Stefani was ranked 13th in VH1's list of 100 Greatest Women in Music in 2012. (No shame! Her mother taught her to sing throughout her youth, and she took inspiration from artists such as Roberta Flack, Gladys Knight and Chaka Khan. For whatever reason i really like female pop singers and i'm always looking for more hoping that i will like them. Getting a start in her career performing on the television show The Jacksons in 1976, Jackson went on to begin her solo music career in 1982 when she signed with &M Records. Jennifer Lopez established herself as the highest-paid Latin actress in Hollywood after starring in films such as Out of Sight, The Wedding Planner, Maid in Manhattanand Shall We Dance. She gives to her fans, friends and foundation not just herself but her energy and spirit.. She charted seven consecutive number-one Billboard Hot 100 hits, including "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go." 22. Amongst the best-selling recording artists of all time and an inspiration to millions of budding artists, Whitney Houston achieved stardom with her eponymous debut album. VOICE OVER: Phoebe de Jeu WRITTEN BY: Jacob Pitts. Her personal life has often sparked controversy, especially when she came out as pansexual and talked about use of cannabis. She subsequently went on to act in a range of films cutting across various genres. The list below showcases the best pop female singers from the 2000s and the 2010s. She has also inspired other popular musicians, such as Kelsea Ballerini and Demi Lovato. Norah Jones mesmerized the nineties with her enchanting vocals and her musical miscellany of pop, jazz, country, soul, and folk. Baby., which included the hit songs Hollaback Girl and Rich Girl. She helped propel the Latin pop movement in American music. I became infatuated and embarked on my own music journey, discovering who I truly was along the way. A televised memorial service was held for the legendary singer. Her debut album Let Go sold millions of copies and became one of the best selling albums in 2002. Having sold over 31 million copies alone, the album is the best-selling of the 21st century and features the songs, Rolling in the Deep, Set Fire to the Rain and Someone Like You. Known for her five-octave vocal range and melismatic singing style, singer-songwriter Mariah Carey is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. 24 Best Female Pop Singers of All Time (2023 Update), Growing up in a small town in South Carolina with little to do, I spent the majority of my adolescence listening to music and writing stories. A member of the prominent Jackson family, Janet Jackson is a singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer. Her collaboration with Santana, The Game Of Love, won the Grammy award for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals in 2003. A sonically refined synthpop sound of the 80s refurbished for club and dance made a comeback in pop songs of the 2000s. Ad Choices, 17 Early 2000s Female Singers Who Were Responsible for Your Teenage Angst, Emily Ratajkowski Went Braless in a Side-Boob-Baring Cardigan for a Possible Sushi Date, Where Did Those Rumors of Liam Hemsworth Cheating on Miley Cyrus Come From? She is one of the world's best-selling recording artists and one of the highest-earning black musicians of all time. The 2010s are also credited to having the highest number-one singles for female artists and some of the most viewed videos of female singers on YouTube. An Investigation. Billie Eilish 10. Perry broke into the mainstream with her 2010 album Teenage Dream which feature five chart-topping hit songs, the first ever album to do so by a female artist. Beyonce 6. For this list, we'll be sticking to traditional pop and R&B groups that sing, as opposed to all-female bands that play instruments. Subscribe . By Thania Garcia. In 2003, she released her first album Dangerously In love, which spawned the chart-topping hit Crazy In Love. It was followed by other smash singles, such as Baby Boy, Irreplaceable, and Single Ladies, that solidified her status as one of the top-selling artists of the decade. Pink is an American singer-songwriter known for her acrobatic stage presence and raspy voice. In 2012 and 2016, she was named in Time magazine's list of most influential people in the world. Often featured in lists like the Greatest Artists of All Time, Madonna serves as an inspiration to many musicians, singers, and songwriters. She has also become a successful businesswoman and legend in the fashion and beauty communities across the globe with her notorious fashion and cosmetics brands, Fenty and Fenty Beauty. She also acted in some films. She is an actress and writer, known for American Hustle (2013), Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) and Brooklyn's Finest (2009). Over the years, she has released a numerous chart-topping albums. In 1999 Spears made history with her debut studio album, Baby One More Time, which debuted at number one on the U.S. Amy Jade Winehouse was known primarily for her eclectic mixing of the soul, blues, rhythm and jazz genres and her contralto vocals, making her one of the most unique female pop singers on this list. Adele 3. Music. At the age of three Spears began taking dance lessons and went on to partake in gymnastics and voice training. Her effortless singing, catchy tunes andinimitable dance moves have won her eight Grammy Awards, eight American Music Awards, twelve Billboard Music Awards and two BRIT Awards. "Everywhere" was 100 percent the first song on all of your mixed CDs back then. The daughter of an actress, she was exposed to acting as a child and began her career early on. Young female artists infused hybrid sounds of hip hop, EDM, electropop, synthpop, electro house, reggaeton, and dance-pop in their brand of pop music. Lindsay Lohan was an actress and teen star that graced the pop in 2004 through her debut album, Speak. It climbed up to number four on the Billboard charts and quickly gained platinum status. A sublime voice! Keys has received a total of 17 NAACP Image Awards, 15 Grammy Awards and 12 ASCAP Awards. Grande has since become one of the most popular artists of the 2010s, as she is the most streamed female artist on Apple Music and Spotify and has won 2 Grammy Awards. The group has since become one of the worlds greatest selling all female groups of all time. Though her career had a slow start, she signed with Atlantic Records where she released some of her most well-known songs to date, such as Think, I Say a Little Prayer, and (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman. To cash in on the popularity of this trend, record producers and record labels engaged songwriters to write songs specifically for collaborations. She performed in diverse genres, including Latin, light opera, rock, and country. Take a musical trip back to the first decade after the turn of the millennium with this list of the 100 best songs of the 2000s. Internationally recognised American singer, songwriter and actress, Britney Spears entered the entertainment industry at an early age and later became highly successfulas a solo artist with her albums,Baby One More Time,and Oops!I Did It Again. Beyonce Knowles is a singer, songwriter, and actress. A great number of women associated with pop music had tremendous chart-topping success with their albums. Diana Ross certainly deserves a spot as one of the best female pop singers ever. I had a lot of emotions in 2005, and angsty music was a great way to deal with them. 21st Century Girls (United Kingdom) (1998-2000) Leanne Garner, Fiona Garner, Kate Turley, Meriam "Mim" Mohammad, Charlotte Fendek; 7 . The pop strained R&B ballads of these girl groups became exceedingly popular with teens globally. Lo as one of the most influential Hispanic women in America, stating why, because over a decade ago, she was an anonymous background dancer on the second-rated sketch-comedy show. The new production techniques that emerged in this decade gave pop music a whole new makeover. Born as Robyn Rihanna Fenty, Rihanna is one of the most influential names in the music and fashion industry. This feat made her one of the youngest solo artists to get a number one song in the U.S. Two years later, she released her sophomore album, The High Road, which centered on more urban pop/hip-hop songs. I became infatuated and embarked on my own music journey, discovering who I truly was along the way. It spawned three international smash singles, selling over 27 million records worldwide. She released her first single later that year on SoundCloud, Ocean Eyes, which received wide acclaim and attention. In 2014 she released her second studio album, My Everything, which featured the hits Bang Bang, Problem and Break Free. Having been homeschooled, Eilish was able to focus on her passion for music at a young age alongside her older brother Finneas. Billboard has said that Perry is the rare celebrity who seems to have enormous popularity but genuine ground-level interaction with her adoring KatyCats.. She has since sold over 100 million records and is the only artist in the history of the Billboard chart to have seven singles from one album reach the top five on the chart. In the 1950s as a Sun Records artist, he helped define the sound of rock 'n roll. It's all here. She has since released seven studio albums with her eighth, Blue Banisters, scheduled to be released in 2021. Her inspiration debut single A Moment Like This reached platinum sales just a few weeks after winning the competition. She then gained international fame with her debut album Born to Die in 2012. During college I developed a passion for journalism, which Ive now been lucky enough to merge with my love for music here at Guitar Lobby. In both 2016 and 2019, Time Magazine named Grande as one of the most influential people in the world. The youngest child of the world-famous Jackson family, Janet Damita Jo Jackson, has become synonymous with her contemporary and socially mindful music which designated her as a role model for 1980s youth which has since made her one of the greatest selling music artists across the globe. She gained much fame as a singer and actress in her teenage and was named the Billboard Woman of the Year in 2017. Australian singer-songwriter, voice-actress and director Sia Furler rose to fame with albums like We Are Born. Johnny Cash is one of the most influential and prolific recording artists of all time. U2 8. Her debut album, Frank, showcased her brilliance and launched to stardom. 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Book review: Baptism—Three Views
Baptism: Three Views, edited by David F. Wright, with contributions by Sinclair B. Ferguson, Anthony N. S. Lane, Bruce A. Ware IVP Academic, 2009, 200 pages.
The most recent issue of Foundations: An International Journal of Evangelical Theology has just been released, which is entirely devoted to baptism. Looks like a good issue. See, for example, Mike Gilbart Smith's article on baptizing children.
Here is my review of a three views book on baptism. Spoiler alert: it's a good book!
There are two opposite errors that evangelical Christians easily stumble into on the topic of baptism: we treat it with too little or too much importance.
The former error, I assume, is more common these days. The thinking here is, the West is secularizing; we live in post-Christendom now; let's not divide over non-essentials. Instead we must affirm the main thing we all share—the gospel.
The latter error, more common perhaps in former times, is still found wherever provincial mindsets cannot see that the work of Christ's kingdom is afoot in denominations beyond their own. My own denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in the United States, often succumbs to this temptation. I remember one convention speech where the speaker made some remark about "As goes the SBC, so goes Christianity in America. As goes Christianity in America, so goes Christianity in…" You can guess how this fairly arrogant progression of thought ends.
The solution to the first error is to recognize that baptism may not be essential, but it is important. The solution to the second is to realize that baptism is important, but not essential. In short, Christians need at least three categories for setting theological priorities: essential, important, and unimportant. We often miss that middle category, and act as if everything is either essential or completely unimportant.
Baptism is not essential because it does not save. The word of the gospel alone saves. Yet baptism is important because (i) it proclaims the gospel visibly; (ii) it helps to protect the gospel from generation to generation; (iii) and it serves to publicly identify the people of heaven on earth, both for their sake and for the sake of the nations.
To help us sort through several prominent views on baptism comes the helpful book Baptism: Three Views, edited by the late professor of patristics and Reformation Christianity, David F. Wright. Presbyterian minister Sinclair Ferguson presents the case for infant or paedobaptism ("paedo" for child). Baptist theologian Bruce Ware agues for believers' baptism or credobaptism ("credo" for creed). And professor of historical theology Anthony Lane offers a dual-practice position.
My younger sister, who was raised a Baptist like me but now attends a Presbyterian church with her husband and a newborn, recently asked me for a good lay-level book on the topic. I happily commended this one. It is written in a friendly, easy-to-follow way. Each author provides a reasonably compelling defense of his position. And the book's format is conducive to a fruitful interchange.
All three authors give a 30 to 35 page presentation of their position, which is followed by a 5 to 10 page response from the other two, and is then concluded with an approximately 5 page rejoinder by the original presenter. This creates—I dare say—a fun dynamic, allowing the reader to see the different sides on any given point of dispute without getting bogged down in the intricacies of one position. It is an ideal format for this type of topic.
WARE ON BELIEVERS' BAPTISM
Ware opens the conversation by doing what Baptist theologians typically do: he offers a definition of the disputed term and then marshals a host of texts before the reader. To summarize in bite-sized morsels, Ware, who alone argues for both a particular mode (immersion) and subject (believers) of baptism, presents these challenges:
1. The root of the Greek word baptō means "immerse" or "submerge" (21).
2. In terms of usage, the New Testament describes scenes of "going down to the water" or "coming up out of the water" of believers (e.g. Matt. 3:16; Acts 8:38)(21-23).
3. Every New Testament instruction or command of baptism involves repentance, faith, or something else that presumes conscious belief (e.g. Matt. 28:19; Acts 2:38; 2:41; 8:12; 8:35-38; 9:18), including the "household texts" (16:32-34; 18:8)(24-27; 29-35).
4. No text in the New Testament explicitly mentions the baptism of infants (29-40), and the favorite texts of paedobaptists don't say what they think they say (e.g. Acts 2:38-39).
5. "Only baptism by immersion provides the symbolism of dying to the old and being raised to the new life in Christ" (27).
6. The old covenant incorporated people at two levels, both the ethnic and national as well as the spiritual or promise; but the new covenant incorporates only those who have been forgiven of the sins and received God's law on their hearts, i.e. those who have repented and believed. Hence, the people of the new covenant, the church, is not a mixed community—"at least in principle and by structure and design" (emph. orig., 50; 41-47). There is no category for unbelieving covenant members.
7. Circumcision, too, functioned at both levels (ethnic/national and spiritual/promise). Which means, there is both continuity and discontinuity between circumcision and baptism. Both are a sign and seal of their respective covenants (see Rom. 4:11), but circumcision had an ethnic/national element that has fallen away. Only the spiritual/promise remains. Hence, the children of believers should not be baptized (45).
8. Not surprisingly, the only explicit connection the New Testament makes between circumcision and baptism is drawn between spiritual circumcision of the heart and baptism (Col. 2:11-12)(46, 116).
9. A growing number of scholars suggest that most churches practiced believer's baptism in the first four to six centuries of the church's existence, and when infant baptism was practiced, it was treated as necessary for the remission of sins, hardly a theology most Protestant paedobaptists would welcome (47-49).
10. Believers' baptism grounds the regenerate nature of the church.
11. Baptists link the objective work of Christ with the subjective response of faith (73).
Ware rests his case lightly on historical grounds, largely on exegetical grounds, but not insignificantly on historical-redemptive grounds.
FERGUSON ON PAEDOBAPTISM
Sinclair Ferguson makes his case mostly in this last historical-redemptive category, which of course is what Presbyterians do so well. He offers these challenges:
1. In terms of mode, the New Testament baptismal accounts do not require immersion since pouring might have occurred (even in Matt. 3:16 or Acts 8:38) (51-53).
2. The early church attests to the practice of infant baptism, as with the third century Apostolic Tradition which refers to baptizing children who are not yet able to speak (79-84).
3. As with Abraham's circumcision, baptism is a sign and seal of the righteousness that comes by faith. But where believers' baptism emphasizes what the believer does in responding by faith, the paedobaptist emphasizes what Christ has done (53-55; 86-91; 92-96). It is a Christo-centric emblem, not a fidecentric one. Emphasis is on the movement from objective to subjective, not the opposite.
4. The household baptism texts demonstrate that the Old Testament's covenantal understanding of the family continues (56-57). God would not promote the family unit in the Old Testament only to displace it in the new, and nothing in the New Testament suggests the family has been displaced (106-07). The epochal movement from Old Covenant to New presents not a contraction (removing the family) but an expansion (adding the nations, as well as women into the covenantal sign).
5. Jeremiah includes the "to you and your seed" principle in his exposition of the new covenant (Jer. 32:38-40), as do all divine covenants prior to Pentecost (57-58; 101, 103-04).
6. The fact that the way of salvation has always been the same suggests that the ordinance which replaces circumcision, which was a sign of that salvation, can also be given to infants (100-01; 104).
7. Peter's promise at Pentecost specifically underscores that these promises also go to the seed of believers (Acts 2:38-39)(103-04).
8. Christ specifically blesses not just children (Mark 10:13-16) but seemingly babies (Luke 18:15-17)(107-08).
No doubt Ferguson exegetes texts, like Ware. But the overall paedobaptist argument depends less on straightforward reading of the texts and more heavily on a canonical framework that informs how one reads the baptism texts. Ferguson calls Ware's approach "proof-textual" (105), which is always a convenient epithet when the proof-texts don't immediately work in your favor, at least on the surface.
To be forthright, reading these first two accounts back to back did make me think, "Perhaps this explains why the Presbyterians I know have more education than the Baptists I know." Yes, that's a stereotype, but I say that as a Baptist. The credobaptist account, I dare say, is just easier to grab onto for the common Joe ("Look, the Ethiopian eunuch and Philip went down to the water!"). The paedobaptist account, honestly, requires greater theological sophistication and canonical sensitivity, at least if you are not a first-century Jew. That does not mean it is right or wrong. It simply means a person in the twenty-first century who is not accustomed to conversations about Old Testament circumcision has to think harder to see it.
LANE ON MIXED PRACTICE
Anthony Lane, whose position will be less familiar to most readers, treats baptism on the pages of the New Testament not as "believers' baptism" but as "converts' baptism." This subtle shift emphasizes the immediacy of a person's baptism upon conversion: converts get baptized to show they are converts.
Conversion, Lane argues, consists of four steps: repentance, faith, baptism, and reception of the Holy Spirit. That does not mean baptism is regenerative or a salvific requirement, as such. Lane acknowledges that the thief on the cross was saved. His point is simply that baptism is the flip side of faith. It is how faith expresses itself.
When it comes to the children of believers—whether infants or not—Lane appreciates the paedobaptist emphasis on the corporate and familial nature of the faith, and so assumes the early Christians would have done something to adapt or modify the practice of convert baptism for their children. Since conversion involves all four steps listed above, some may have concluded that nothing would be lost if baptism comes first, to be followed years later by repentance and faith.
What's important to recognize, says Lane, is that the New Testament is silent on whether or not infants were baptized. When we look to the data of the first four centuries, however, we find a plurality of practices: sometimes infants were baptized, sometimes not, and for a number of reasons. Then, like seismologists who feel the ripples of an earthquake thousands of miles away, we can make deductions about what was happening in the original apostolic churches, namely, there were a variety of practices happening there as well. In other words, accepting the authority of Scripture means "respecting the silences of Scripture as well as its positive statements" (166).
A second kind of silence is important for Lane's argument—the silence among the church fathers concerning principled arguments against infant baptism. Tertullian, for instance, offers something like a prudential against it. But that, in itself, is instructive. Apparently infants were being baptized, which is what prompted him to make a prudential argument. But the lack of a principled argument suggests that neither he nor others had principled objections. The first principled arguments against infant baptism don't occur until one obscure group in the Middle Ages and then the Anabaptists in the Reformation.
Lane concludes from all of this that the contemporary church has grounds for a church to offer more than one practice. Surely adult converts must be baptized, most centrally. But then Christian families should be permitted to baptize their infants or to delay their baptism.
Admittedly, I am not an objective reader. I was convinced of the believers' baptism picking up the book, and I remain convinced of it setting it down, maybe even more so.
What the book did do, however, is enrich my original position by the things I learned from the other two perspectives. Ferguson's robust presentation of baptism as a sign and seal of the righteousness a Christian gains through faith is worth incorporating and adapting into a baptist framework, as Ware gladly does. And Lane's insistence on the tight relationship between faith and baptism, even calling it a Christian "passport" (129), reminds us of how important the topic is in the Bible. Faith subjectively expresses itself through baptism, and it is a public marker of entrance into the objective faith.
Further, the book reminded me of how tough this topic is. Sinclair Ferguson observes at one point that the interlocutors had reached an "impasse," and most readers will probably feel that. Every position is intelligent, and offers a reasonably coherent explanation for the biblical and historical data. It is like a private detective and a police lieutenant are staring down at the same dead body and same set of clues, but one is convinced the butler did it while the other is convinced the estranged wife did it, and both are adamant. Where do you go from there?
For instance, Bruce Ware offers what I took to be a compelling baptist explanation for the "household baptism" passages in Acts, but Ferguson and Lane are not compelled. What else can be said?! Thank you, folks. Goodnight. That's all we have.
It is tempting for me to throw my two cents into the argument, perhaps observing that both Jeremiah and Jesus very much do annul the ethnic "and to your seed" covenantal principle (Jer. 31:29-30; Matt. 12:50; 19:29; cf. Matt. 3:9; 10:35).
Further, the paedobaptist idea of the covenantal inclusion of infants only works because of a vagueness surrounding which covenant they are included within—the theologically conceived covenant of grace? The exegetical new covenant? I honestly find it impossible to stare at the words of Jeremiah 31:31-34 and understand how exactly an infant is included in its promises, unless one wants to say that baptism guarantees such inclusion because it effectually implants the Holy Spirit, like the passages discusses.
Or, Ferguson is surely right to affirm the continuous nature of salvation from old covenant to new. But I would argue that he, like paedobaptists generally, can only equate circumcision and baptism by smothering the institutional distinctions within the text, such as (Ware observes) the two layers of meaning behind circumcision (national/ethnic and spiritual/promise).
But instead of hearing my own arguments, a reader does well to jump into the book's responses and rejoinders. What he or she will discover, I contest, is that the different positions depend upon subtly different theological methodologies. One author emphasizes the exegetical, one the historical-redemptive, and one the historical. The impasse exists on this topic, in part, because of these differing assumptions about which kinds of data and methods are most persuasive.
Finally, there is only one right explanation for who should get wet, a point our relativistic age likes to overlook. And obedience to Jesus means searching for it. Paying closer attention to methodology, I believe, will help. A solution is not essential to faith, but it is important.
Editor's note: This article was originally published in Foundations: An International Journal of Evangelical Theology.
Jonathan Leeman
Jonathan Leeman is the Editorial Director of 9Marks, and an elder at Cheverly Baptist Church in Cheverly, Maryland. You can find him on Twitter at @JonathanLeeman.
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Howie Carr of the Boston Herald muses on the likely impact of President Obama's pending executive action on gun control.
Obama is already the greatest gun salesman in American history, and you ain't seen nothing yet.
Now he's going to come after law-abiding gun owners, and if you don't believe this is the plan, then why was it announced … on a holiday, New Year's Day?
If you don't have a gun permit, get one. If you don't own a firearm, buy one — now! Stock up on ammo, too. Join the NRA. What this is about is very simple — Obama is coming after our guns ?because he and his ilk don't want us to be able to defend ourselves.
"I directed my team at the White House," he said yesterday "to look into any new actions I can take to help reduce gun violence."
Here's my suggestion: Enforce the bleeping federal laws that are already on the books. In 2004, under George W. Bush, the feds prosecuted 8,752 federal gun-violation cases. In 2013, under this gun-grab administration, the feds prosecuted 5,082 cases — a decline of 42 percent.
So who's kidding whom here? Obama, Holder, Lynch et al. have zero interest in enforcing the existing gun statutes because they're violated in large measure by illegal aliens, gangbangers, drive-by shooters, street muggers and fifth-generation welfare layabouts — in other words, the core constituencies of the Democratic Party. Do any of these Obama voters get their weapons at gun shows? If you've ever been to a gun show, you damn well know the answer to that question.
In a 2014 story in the Washington Times, a George Washington University professor commented on the "irony" of the Obama obsession with cracking down on taxpayers while letting his own voters run amok.
"For a lot of people," he said, referring to the PC crowd trying to fundamentally transform America into a Third World hellhole, "there's more ideological cachet harassing Bubba at the gun show than getting a handle on gun crime."


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Memorable Manitobans: Baldwin Larus Baldwinson (1856-1936)
Baldwin Larus Baldwinson
Shoemaker, immigration agent, MLA (1900-1903), MLA (1903-1907), MLA (1911-1914), civil servant.
Born in Icelandic on 6 October 1856, son of Baldwin Jonsson and Helga Egilsdottir, he came to Canada in 1873 and settled at Toronto where he worked at the shoemaking trade until 1882 when he moved to Winnipeg. In 1883, he became an Icelandic immigration agent for the federal government, remaining in the position until 1896 and being responsible for bringing over seven thousand people from Iceland to Canada. He owned and edited the Icelandic newspaper Heimskringla from 1898 to 1913.
On 24 September 1886, he married Helga Sigurdasdottir (?-?) and they had three sons and three daughters. After defeat in the 1892 and 1896 provincial general elections, he represented the Gimli constituency in the Manitoba Legislature for twelve years, being elected or acclaimed in 1899, 1903, and 1910 but defeated in 1907. He served as Deputy Provincial Secretary of Manitoba from 1913 to 1922, during the Roblin and Norris governments. He retired in 1922 and lived at 728 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg. In 1932 he moved to California to live with one of his daughters.
He died at Hayward, California on 5 October 1936.
Pioneers and Prominent People of Manitoba, Winnipeg: Canadian Publicity Company, 1925.
"B. L. Baldwinson, former member Legislature, dies," Winnipeg Free Press, 9 December 1936.
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