As US Weekly headlines, she better brush up on her lullabies for her first child.

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One of the best-known traditional Iraqi lullabies, is a particularly sad one, about the heart-ache of missing relatives.

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After The Format's first disc, EP, generated significant music-industry buzz, a major label released Interventions and Lullabies in 2003.

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In the 1920s, poet Federico Garcia Lorca, who studied Spanish lullabies, noted the "poetic character" and " depth of sadness" of many of them.

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We know that lullabies were deemed important enough to be documented by the Babylonians 4, 000 years ago, but how much longer will they survive?

BBC: The universal language of lullabies

From our perspective, the Forbes No. 9 Most Powerful Woman had better consider more than lullabies, which ought to come fairly easy to her and her husband, Jay Z.

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There were lullabies, cabaret songs, string quartets and more.

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Either way, as end-times lullabies go, it's pretty sweet.

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The collection follows last year's mostly overlooked but critically praised Wild Mountain Nation, with concise songs that stick to understated lullabies and rollicking AM country-rock, a style that made Nation's best tunes so successful.

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