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Music: Rita Ora

We're gonna party and bullshit, and party and bullshit, and party and bullshit...

Rita Ora (b. 26 November 1990) is a Kosovo-born British pop singer. She attended Sylvia Young Theatre School (whose notable alumni include Vanessa White of The Saturdays, Amy Winehouse and Billie Piper) and worked with musicians such as Craig David and Tinchy Stryder before going on to audition for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. However, she later withdrew due to "not feeling ready" for the competition.

Events soon took a turn for the better as she signed up with Jay Z's label Roc Nation alongside fellow Brit starlets Sugababes. She began appearing in videos with the likes of Drake and Jay-Z himself, and released her debut single "Hot Right Now" (a collaboration with DJ Fresh) which topped the UK Charts. This was followed by two other UK number ones, "R.I.P" (featuring Tinie Tempah) and "How We Do (Party)". These singles were also relatively successful overseas, especially in Australia.

Ora released her debut album, Ora, throughout most territories in August 2012. She will release the album with a slightly different track listing in the US in early 2013.

Discography:

Ora (2012)

This pop musician displays examples of:

Breakup Song: "Young, Single & Sexy", "Hello, Hi, Goodbye" (where the singer is still in pain over her last breakup and can't begin another relationship)
Expy: Of Rihanna. It's been speculated that Roc Nation (her label) and Jay-Z have been grooming her to replace Rihanna in case she had a breakdown. (Some say it's because of Rihanna and Chris Brown getting back together, but Unapologetic shoots that theory down hard.)
In Da Club: "Radioactive"
Ms. Fanservice: Would this picture convince you?
The Fashionista: Is apparently a big fan of retraux clothing, especially the style of Marilyn Monroe.
Intercourse with You: "Crazy Girl", which hints at BDSM activity.
Precision F-Strike: In "Been Lying":
Middle finger when it comes to love
Act like I don't really give a fuck
Rockstar Song: "Shine Ya Light" (overlaps with Follow Your Heart), "Roc the Life". An example of a negative version of this trope is "Been Lying".
Sampling: "Facemelt" samples "Brap" by Bart B, "R.I.P" samples "Heartbeat" by Nneka, "Fall in Love" samples "Handguns (Dada Life Remix)" by Alexis Latrobe and "How We Do (Party)" interpolates the refrain of The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Party and Bullshit".
The Runner Up Takes It All: Jade Ewen went on to represent Eurovision in 2009, taking what would have been Ora's place had she continued with, and possibly won, the competition. Despite a couple of top-tens with Sugababes, Ewen has essentially fallen back into obscurity. Ora, meanwhile, now has a worldwide hit album, a lucrative US deal and is now dating Rob Kardashian to boot.
Sanity Slippage Song: "Uneasy", "Been Lying"
Silly Love Song: "Radioactive", "How We Do" (Party)", "Love and War" (feat. J. Cole), "Meet Ya"
Spiritual Successor: To Gwen Stefani, Rihanna and Jessie J, even though the latter has only released one full-length studio album so far.
Third-Person Person: In "R.I.P".