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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 4 June 2019
Rhett looks to get more relatable with love on new record

By KRISTIN M. HALL reotypes, a hip-hop/pop
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — production and songwrit-
Thomas Rhett has fully em- ing team that worked with
braced his reputation for Bruno Mars on his Grammy-
being the guy who is always winning "24K Magic" re-
writing romantic songs in- cord.
spired by his wife, Lauren, "I just love every record do-
due to his hit parade of ing a couple of songs that
multi-platinum love songs are way out of my wheel-
like "Die a Happy Man" and house because I think it ex-
"Marry Me." pands me creatively," Rhett
Now his challenge going said.
into his fourth record, "Cen- He also worked with On-
ter Point Road," out Friday, eRepublic's Ryan Tedder,
is to be less gushy and more who's also known for creat-
relatable. ing hits for superstars includ-
"I'm trying to write my love ing Beyonce, Taylor Swift
songs with a little more and Adele.
depth, rather than our life Tedder had never written
is rainbows and fairytales," with Rhett, but they had
Rhett said. "Love just shifts mutual friends and got to-
and evolves and you start gether for a two-day writ-
to love deeper and you ing session that produced
start to love harder in the In this April 30, 2019, photo, country singer Thomas Rhett poses in Nashville, Tenn. to promote his "Beer Can't Fix" a beachy
midst of all the chaos of fourth record “Center Point Road.” country duet with Jon Par-
your life. It was cool to write Associated Press di, and a stripped-down
love songs with a little more acoustic track called "That
meat attached to the he had to ply her with wine and has won male artist of March and his expansive Old Truck." Tedder teased
bone on this record." in the studio. the year at the Academy 16-track record finds him that there was one more
And if you look closely at At just 29, Rhett has a lot of Country Music Awards pushing further into big pop song they both wrote that
the album's credits, his wife to look forward to as one twice. productions with collabo- will be coming out on an-
shows up on background of country music's biggest He reached a wider au- rations with Ed Sheeran co- other producer/DJ's re-
vocals on "Things You Do young stars. He is selling out dience with his debut on writer and Grammy-winner cord, but he couldn't yet
For Love," although he said arenas across the country "Saturday Night Live" in Amy Wadge, and The Ste- announce it.q

Monse looks to vintage board games for resort collection

By LEANNE ITALIE with colorful cupped-hand
Associated Press clasps.
NEW YORK (AP) — With Monse doesn't just make
the sun shining bright after menswear fresh and sexy
days of dreary rain, Monse for women. They do the
co-founders Laura Kim and same for the men. One
Fernando Garcia seated male model walked in
some of their guests on soft strappy sandals in a patch-
cubes designed as dice work blazer with inside-out
as they showed a vintage lining stripes, one lapel
board game-infused re- striped and the other white.
sort collection Friday on A huge part of the Monse
an open, lower Manhattan vibe, among the isms, is
plaza. comfort and wearability.
Sticking closely to their There was a pair of wool
"Monseisms," as Garcia put pants in cherry with a for-
it in an interview, the duo giving foldover waist, along
also at the creative helm of with a black striped chiffon
Oscar de la Renta leaned scarf shirt amid the inside-
on breezy prints adorned outedness and unconven-
with little game toy soldiers, tional tailoring.
numbers and hearts, mixed Of their desire to decon-
with monochromatic looks struct, Kim offered: "We
of mustard yellow, fiery or- The Monse Resort 2020 is modeled, Friday, May 31, 2019, in New York. both like very basic clothes.
ange and cherry red. Associated Press We love basic T-shirts, but
Their love of deconstructing we're looking at it in a way
menswear for women was tan and black striped chif- structing anything that is Victoria-era games, "and of, how do we make this
present and accounted for fon culotte, among other in your existing wardrobe," it was really beautiful," Kim look new?"
in asymmetrical sleeve and outfits. Garcia told The Associated said. Garcia said their "Mon-
jacket designs. The mission remains as is: To Press. They carried the theme seisms" are about "creating
So was long fringe swinging work staples into something It was a superior at de la into other elements, includ- things that nobody else has
under blue skies amid ab- new. Renta that got them going ing little dice on necklaces. in their closet."
stract sculpture, on a red "We have a love and affin- on antique board games. Some shoulders and necks But fancier. Not just for go-
striped one-shoulder caf- ity for stripes and decon- He showed them a book of were adorned and affixed ing to work.q