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Treat Myself is the third major-label studio album by American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor (pictured). Epic Records released it on January 31, 2020, after delaying it for over a year while Trainor wrote more songs. She worked with producers including Mike Sabath and Tyler Johnson, and featured artists including Nicki Minaj and the Pussycat Dolls. The album is a pop, doo-wop, funk, and R&B album, with themes such as female duality, body image, self-esteem issues, and relationships. Trainor promoted it with public appearances and televised performances. Treat Myself includes the singles "No Excuses", "Wave", and "Nice to Meet Ya". Some reviewers thought the album effectively showcased Trainor's artistic range; others criticized its production choices and lyrical themes. It debuted at number 25 on the US Billboard 200 and peaked within the top 40 in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Scotland, Spain, and Switzerland. (This article is part of a featured topic: Meghan Trainor albums.)
Did you know ...
- ... that a city in Virginia's 88.5-foot-tall (27.0 m) Christmas decoration (pictured) was so popular with residents that it was decided to light it nightly year-round?
- ... that prehistoric women may have had unique advantages over men in endurance hunting due to the positive effects of estrogen on muscle development?
- ... that the actor Andrew Still worked as a receptionist and janitor after leaving Hollyoaks?
- ... that the Great Book of Marvels has been called "one of the most valuable sources for the study of Chinese folklore"?
- ... that after no record label would sign Keith Marshall, his manager set one up himself and released his 1981 UK Top 20 single "Only Crying"?
- ... that the protagonist of Shovel Knight: King of Cards was compared to "a bad Renaissance fair actor who's gotten too far into his role"?
- ... that skateboarder Cui Chenxi is the youngest Chinese gold medalist in the Asian Games?
- ... that in the Six Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva, Dmitri Shostakovich wanted to convey how he imagined the poet's voice, "husky, hefty, occluded in the smoke of homegrown tobacco"?
In the news
- Following damage to the helicopter's rotors, NASA ends the Ingenuity (pictured) mission on Mars after seventy-two flights in almost three years.
- The Ram Mandir, a temple to Rama, is consecrated at a disputed site in Ayodhya, India.
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's lunar module SLIM lands on the Moon.
- Protests break out in Bashkortostan, Russia, following the imprisonment of activist Fail Alsynov.
- Iran launches missile strikes in Pakistan and aerial strikes in Iraq and Syria, and Pakistan responds with retaliatory airstrikes.
On this day
January 31: Independence Day in Nauru (1968)
- 314 – Sylvester I (bust depicted), during whose pontificate many churches in Rome were constructed by Constantine the Great, began his reign as pope.
- 1919 – Intense rioting over labour conditions broke out in Glasgow, Scotland, quelled only when the British government sent tanks to restore order.
- 1997 – Final Fantasy VII, the first video game in the Final Fantasy franchise to use 3-D computer graphics, was released.
- 2007 – Emergency officials in Boston mistakenly identified LED placards depicting characters from Aqua Teen Hunger Force as IEDs, causing a panic.
- John Francis Regis (b. 1597)
- Franz Schubert (b. 1797)
- Jackie Robinson (b. 1919)
- Adelaide Tambo (d. 2007)
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Brookesia thieli, commonly known as Domergue's leaf chameleon, is a species of lizard in the chameleon family, Chamaeleonidae. The species is endemic to eastern Madagascar. It was first described in 1969 by Édouard-Raoul Brygoo and Charles Antoine Domergue. This B. thieli lizard was photographed on a leaf in Andasibe, Madagascar. Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp
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