Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your domineering stage mother of music news and criticism.

I am your host, John Cara Monica.

I'll go whenever you press play, pause whenever you want be do whatever you want be I sing

whatever you want they make love whatever you want to do whatever we gonna do no one's here but us to me and you the boy

got so much dirt on me I swear with me with the sex police thinking like a bitch up for the century.

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I've been waiting months to do this.

Ao Scott in the building. I've been waiting months to do this.

A.O. Scott in the building, you have just heard a little ditty called Private Property.

Yeah.

By a rising star named Noni.

Noni is on fire.

Noni is as how did they get?

Peek Fuego.

Noni, as you may know, is the central character in a film called Beyond the Lights.

I hope I know since I did review the movie in our own newspaper.

That's basic information for a critic to know.

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podcast. Beyond the Lights has been. and expertise we offer you on the New York Times Bobgast.

Beyond the Lights has been in theaters about a couple weeks.

A. O. Scott reviewed the movie from the New York Times.

Tell us a little about what you thought about the movie. I thought it was really wonderful.

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