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Motown

[moh-toun] / ˈmoʊˌtaʊn /


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As young Michael, the empathetic Juliano Valdi makes us feel the loneliness of a boy in a Motown Records recording booth facing grown-up pressures to excel.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2026

"There's a thing I miss in in pop music today, which is that kind of Motown feeling, that classic feeling, that analogue feeling," she said.

From BBC Apr. 3, 2026

I was like, “I don’t want to do it in the doo-wop kind of Motown way.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 26, 2026

"There's a there's a thing I miss in in pop music today, which is that kind of Motown feeling, that classic feeling, that analogue feeling," she told me last year.

From BBC Mar. 26, 2026

“J Dilla. Detroit legend. He died when I was little. I’m into the classics, but all Detroit, all day. Motown, J Dilla, Slum Village.”

From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi




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