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Most of us want to travel with our families and airlines have decided to make a business out of it. Now the airlines will charge a customer more if he/she wants to sit together in a flight. 
 
The scheme is being called the 'seat selection fee' or 'family fee', debuted over eight years ago, but in India it's only this year that this fee has emerged in a ruthless avatar. 
 <keyword id="2573" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Air-India">Air India</keyword> introduced the fee in May. Private carrier <keyword id="6358200" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jet-Airways">Jet Airways</keyword>, however, revised its seat selection fee recently. 
 
According to a circular sent to travel agents on December 12, a comprehensive seat selection fee chart which charges different fees depending not just on the destination, but also the month and date of travel. 
 
"On flights between India and the Middle East, and Asian countries, the categories are high season, peak season and other months. It's evident that when the revenue they earned from baggage fees and cancellation fees came down, Jet increased the seat selection fee," an aviation consultant, requesting anonymity, told ET. 
 This move came in after the stopping of baggage fees and cancellation fees this year by the Indian aviation regulator, <keyword id="6354787" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="DGCA">DGCA</keyword>. Airlines, so as to increase their ancillary revenue from non-ticket sources, have inclined towards this. 
 
National carrier Air India on its website hasn't even bothered with the particulars. The website puts a "blanket preferred seat price" of Rs 3,500 per seat on flights to the US and Rs 3,000 per seat on flights to the UK, Far East, Europe and Australia. But an Air India spokesperson said that the said fee was applicable only for front row seats. 
 
Sudhakara Reddy of Air Passengers Association of India, a consumer rights body, said: "The DGCA should carry out a comparative study on the seat selection fees charged by airlines in other countries. But it has not yet come out with the revised guidelines on all the charges that airlines can levy for unbundled services (ancillary revenue sources). They should put the guidelines on their website for the passenger to refer to readily.''

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Dua Lipa announced her third album, "Radical Optimism," will be released May 3.</li><li>The album will have 11 tracks, including the singles "Houdini" and "Training Season."</li></ul>Dua Lipa is gearing up to release a new album, the hotly anticipated follow-up to her <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dua-lipa-future-nostalgia-review-first-listen-2020-3">pandemic-era pop classic "Future Nostalgia."</a>Lipa announced on Wednesday that her third album, "Radical Optimism," will arrive on May 3. She also unveiled the cover art, photographed by Tyrone Lebon, and the full 11-song tracklist."A couple of years ago, a friend introduced me to the term 'Radical Optimism,'" Lipa said in a press release. "It struck me — the idea of going through chaos gracefully and feeling like you can weather any storm." The tracklist includes the album's lead single, "Houdini," released back in November.The synth-laden bop, coproduced by Kevin Parker and Danny L Harle, is buoyed by Lipa's signature confidence: "Prove you got the right to please me / Everybody knows / Catch me or I go, Houdini."The album will also feature "Training Season," released as the second single in February. (Lipa <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/grammys-best-worst-performances-2024-2">performed a medley of both songs</a> at the 2024 Grammys.)"Training Season" was inspired by an epiphany in Lipa's dating journey — a resolve to raise the bar for potential partners."I had been on a string of bad dates, and the last one was the final straw," she said in a press release. When she went to the studio the next morning and her friends asked how it went, Lipa said she'd had enough."I immediately declared 'TRAINING SEASON IS OVER,' and like the best 'day after' debriefs with your mates, we had a lot of laughs and it all quickly came together from there," she said.<h2>Most of the album was made with a small group of collaborators</h2>In contrast to "Future Nostalgia," which was created with a wide variety of songwriters and producers, Lipa's next project was kept mostly contained.In addition to her trusted cowriter Caroline Ailin ("Don't Start Now," "New Rules"), Lipa teamed up with Parker, Harle, and Tobias Jesso Jr. to craft eight of the album's 11 tracks. During <a target="_blank" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/dua-lipa-third-album-influences-dating-life-acting-1234945422/">an interview with Rolling Stone</a>, Lipa referred to these four collaborators as her "band.""I remember thinking it was a genius move to get that combination of people together," Parker told the magazine. "Like, hats off to her." Parker is better known by the name of his solo project, Tame Impala. The musical polymath and critical darling has also worked with Lady Gaga ("Perfect Illusion"), Travis Scott ("Skeletons"), and The Weeknd ("Repeat After Me").Harle is a respected indie-pop producer, best known for working with Caroline Polachek and Charli XCX, while Jesso Jr. is a folksy musician who's written songs with Adele ("When We Were Young," "To Be Loved"), Niall Horan ("Slow Hands"), and Florence Welch ("Hunger," "The End of Love").Jesso Jr. called his experience working on Lipa's album "the pinnacle of my writing career."<h2>Lipa was inspired by Brit-pop bands and UK rave culture</h2>Lipa cited British rock bands like Blur, Gorillaz, Massive Attack, Oasis, and Primal Scream — predominantly popular in the '80s and '90s — as the biggest touchstones for her new music.Again, this contrasts "Future Nostalgia," which was heavily influenced by campy pop and disco."This record feels a bit more raw," she told Rolling Stone. "I want to capture the essence of youth and freedom and having fun and just letting things happen, whether it's good or bad. You can't change it. You just have to roll with the punches of whatever's happening in your life."Lipa also described the new album as "a psychedelic-pop-infused tribute to UK rave culture," according to Rolling Stone's Brittany Spanos.She was particularly inspired by "I'm Free" by Liam Gallagher, formerly of Oasis fame. Her new collaborator Harle was credited as a "rave consultant" on the 2022 song, which incorporates a breakbeat drum pattern popular in electronic and garage genres."Dua really enjoyed that," Harle told Rolling Stone. "Dua likes going to a rave."Asked if she's interacted with Brit-pop stars like <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/taylor-swift-damon-albarn-doesnt-write-songs-response-2022-1">Damon Albarn</a> or <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/noel-gallagher-harry-styles-not-real-musician-comment-2022-4">Noel Gallagher</a>, who've both criticized modern pop stars like Taylor Swift and Harry Styles, Lipa said she hasn't met them — and isn't bothered by their comments."It's more like the music element, the aspect of it that I'm really connected to," she explained. "They're obnoxious for sure. That's their whole thing."<h2>The album will include breakup stories and single-girl adventures</h2>According to Spanos, Lipa's new album "captures a period of major changes in her life, including the end of a relationship and her forays into dating."After releasing "Future Nostalgia" in 2020, Lipa broke up with <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/anwar-hadid-instagram-troubling-dua-lipa-boyfriend-romain-gavras-2023-5">her longtime boyfriend, Anwar Hadid</a>. Later, she split from director <a target="_blank" rel="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-romain-gavras-dua-lipas-french-director-boyfriend-2023-5">Romain Gavras</a> after about eight months of dating.During a phone call with Rolling Stone in December, Lipa confirmed she was single — though more recently, she's been <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dua-lipa-callum-turner-relationship-timeline-2024-1">spotted out and about with actor Callum Turner</a>.Ailin told Spanos that Lipa would come to the studio equipped with real-life stories about her dating escapades, ready to transform her anecdotes into art."Dating, I think overall, is just a little confusing," Lipa said. "It's either through friends of friends or people you trust where you can meet new people, because [dating] is not really so straightforward when you are, I guess, a public person."This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

Dua Lipa's new album is called 'Radical Optimism.' Here's everything you need to know.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Ryan Gosling performed the original song "I'm Just Ken" in Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" movie.</li><li>As the Oscars get closer, many efforts are being made to get the track nominated for best original song. </li></ul><a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/ryan-gosling-fun-facts-2023-7">Ryan Gosling</a>, we've had Kenough.On Saturday, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.justjared.com/2023/12/16/ryan-gosling-holds-a-guitar-while-exiting-recording-studio-with-im-just-ken-co-writer-mark-ronson/">paparazzi photos</a> surfaced of Gosling and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/barbie-movie-soundtrack-song-ranking-2023-7">"Barbie" soundtrack</a> producer Mark Ronson leaving a recording studio together with guitar cases in tow. Four days later, a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKO84c6SbfY">music video</a> for a Christmas-themed remix of "I'm Just Ken" hit the internet. It's the latest, thinly veiled attempt at Oscar glory for "I'm Just Ken," a soulful track from Greta Gerwig's summer smash, "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/barbie-details-references-easter-eggs-missed-2023-7">Barbie</a>."But Ken has overstayed his welcome at Barbie's dreamhouse — it's time for Gosling to pack it up.<h2>Gosling dropped an EP comprised of the original version of 'I'm Just Ken' plus 3 unnecessary variations</h2><div type="image" title="Ryan Gosling as Ken in &quot;Barbie.&quot;" height="1280" width="2560" msid="106192665" hostid="261" sizebytes="66920"></div>"Ken the EP," released on Wednesday, milks Ken's song about his insecurities and self-doubt to a gratuitous degree.In addition to the standard recording of "I'm Just Ken," which has already amassed over 95 million Spotify streams and charted on the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/ryan-gosling-im-just-ken-barbie-hot-100-debut-1235384289/">Billboard Hot 100</a>, the EP contains three new, needless versions: "I'm Just Ken – Merry Kristmas Barbie," "I'm Just Ken – In My Feelings Acoustic," and "I'm Just Ken – Purple Disco Machine Remix."The holiday remix offers some more percussion, but it doesn't tweak any lyrics to make them more Christmassy, making it an obvious attempt at staying relevant through January when Oscars voting begins. Look, if Sabrina Carpenter (a real-life Barbie) can take her fan-favorite hit <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcSP1ZUf1eQ">"Nonsense"</a> and jollify it into <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OTvCzGChJE">a second "Chrismash,"</a> seven-time <a target="_blank" href="https://www.grammy.com/artists/mark-ronson/17323">Grammy winner</a> Ronson could've come up with something beyond "Merry Christmas Barbie, wherever you are" if he and Gosling insisted on decking the halls of "I'm Just Ken."The other two versions are equally uncalled for. Gosling's hilarious cover of Matchbox Twenty's "Push" already perfected the art of setting angst to acoustic music, and the "Purple Disco Machine Remix" is even lazier than the Christmas remix. The song is comprised solely of the lines "I'm just Ken" and "Can you feel the Kenergy?" repeated over a disco beat. No one asked for this.<h2>The Oscars push for 'I'm Just Ken' contradicts the messaging of 'Barbie'</h2><div type="image" title="Ryan Gosling as Ken and Margot Robbie as Barbie in &quot;Barbie.&quot;" height="1410" width="3000" msid="106192666" hostid="261" sizebytes="145838"></div>Gerwig's movie is centered on Margot Robbie's Barbie, and Ken is secondary to her narrative. He is, as Barbie says, "totally superfluous."It's already more than enough that in a movie about Barbie, not Ken, Ken gets to take control of the screen for his own over-the-top musical number. But bringing "I'm Just Ken" further out of Barbie Land and into the Real World further posits Ken as the star while dimming the sparkle of the women his character is meant to uplift.By vying for a spot in the Oscars' best original song race, "I'm Just Ken," cowritten by Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, could very well knock out another more deserving, female-led "Barbie" track from consideration.Warner Bros. submitted three "Barbie" tracks for Oscars consideration for original song: Dua Lipa's "Dance the Night," Billie Eilish's "What Was I Made For?" and Gosling's "I'm Just Ken." All three earned <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/golden-globes-2024-nominees-winners-list-details-2023-12">Golden Globes nominations</a> this month and made the <a target="_blank" href="https://variety.com/2023/film/awards/2024-oscars-shortlist-barbie-1235843930/">Oscars shortlist</a> on Thursday.But per official <a target="_blank" href="https://www.oscars.org/oscars/rules-eligibility">Oscars rules</a>, only two tracks from one film can be nominated for best original song. This means that one of these "Barbie" soundtrack staples is going to be left behind when the final nominations are announced on January 23.Eilish's poignant "What Was I Made For?" is a shoo-in to land a nomination, but that leaves room for only one other "Barbie" track in this category: Gosling's ballad or Lipa's infectious pop-disco hit.It's obvious which is more deserving — "Dance the Night" has been synonymous with "Barbie" since it was included in the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zIf0XvoL9Y&amp;t=15s">first teaser </a>a year ago and, like Eilish's track, speaks directly to Barbie's journey of self-discovery.Another awards show also already declared which two "Barbie" tunes transcend the soundtrack. Both Eilish and Lipa's recordings are nominated for song of the year at the upcoming <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/grammy-awards-2024-nominees-winners-list-details-2023-11">Grammys</a>. They each have established a larger cultural significance outside of the visual media they were written for."I'm Just Ken," however, cannot escape its affiliation with the movie it's from. Like the character it's about, the song only exists in connection with "Barbie." That's partly why the attempt at turning it into a holiday tune for a gimmicky EP fell flat. The song doesn't work in any other context.And of the three songs, it's the only one that wasn't cowritten by a woman. If it was nominated for best original song — a songwriting award — the honor would be bestowed upon two men: Ronson and Wyatt. Plus, both of these guys worked on "Dance the Night," so they'd be honored either way. This just leaves Lipa and lyricist Caroline Ailin in the lurch. That's not really in the spirit of "Barbie." While "I'm Just Ken" was entertaining when it came out with the movie in July, Gosling's song should take a back seat to the Barbies.After all, he is just Ken.

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