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One of the album's key tracks, The Greatest, also featured in critics' top 10 songs of the year, alongside Lil Nas X's country-rap crossover Old Town Road and FKA Twigs' devastating ballad Cellophane.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2019
This obsession had consequences: “They’re hating, they’re waiting / And hoping I’m not enough,” twigs gasps on comeback single Cellophane, a ballad so fragile and stark as to be a confrontation.
From The Guardian • May 8, 2019
Record stores on “The Ave” in the University District such as Cellophane Square and Campus Music sold the tickets.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2017
Like, if you ever reach that point in your career as a performer where you have to be the third guy to play Mr. Cellophane in “Chicago” or something, you could pull that off!
From Salon • May 18, 2012
Its Cellophane tape permits eight hours of recording or playing without changing.
From Time Magazine Archive
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