Bleu

Bleu or BLEU may refer to:

the French word for blue

Three Colors: Blue, a 1993 movie

BLEU (Bilingual Evaluation Understudy), a machine translation evaluation metric

Bleu (musician), a member of pop-group L.E.O.

Blue cheese, a type of cheese

Deis, a character from the Breath of Fire role-playing videogame series who is known as "Bleu" in the English versions

Corbin Bleu, an American actor, model, dancer and vocalist

Parti bleu, 19th century political group in Quebec, Canada

Bleu, synonymous with "extra rare", indicating a barely-cooked meat preparation; very red and cold

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Bleu (musician)

William James McAuley III (born July 18, 1975), best known by his performing name, Bleu, is an American pop artist (singer-songwriter), professional songwriter and producer currently living in Los Angeles. Bleu graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Along with his solo work, he is the lead singer and songwriter of the Electric Light Orchestra-style power pop band L.E.O., as well as a founding member of the power pop trio The Major Labels with Mike Viola and Ducky Carlisle, and is also a founding member of the Mutt Lange homage super-group LoudLion (featuring Taylor Locke of Rooney, Allison Robertson of The Donnas, Maclaine Diemer formerly of Bang Camaro, etc.). Bleu has toured the United States and internationally with bands such as John Mayer, Puffy AmiYumi, Hanson, Guster, Rooney, Mike Viola, Switchfoot, and Toad the Wet Sprocket.

Early career

Bleu was known in the local Boston music scene for his live shows and work with other musicians, and received some local notoriety for his debut effort A Bing Bang Holidang, which was a charity benefit for the Boston Institute for Arts Therapy. A single from that record, "Boston All Star 12 Dayz," received some local airplay, featuring famous local musicians and acts from Guster and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones as well as Kay Hanley of Letters to Cleo and Bill Janovitz.

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BLEU

BLEU (bilingual evaluation understudy) is an algorithm for evaluating the quality of text which has been machine-translated from one natural language to another. Quality is considered to be the correspondence between a machine's output and that of a human: "the closer a machine translation is to a professional human translation, the better it is" – this is the central idea behind BLEU. BLEU was one of the first metrics to achieve a high correlation with human judgements of quality, and remains one of the most popular automated and inexpensive metrics.

Scores are calculated for individual translated segments—generally sentences—by comparing them with a set of good quality reference translations. Those scores are then averaged over the whole corpus to reach an estimate of the translation's overall quality. Intelligibility or grammatical correctness are not taken into account.

BLEU is designed to approximate human judgement at a corpus level, and performs badly if used to evaluate the quality of individual sentences.

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Wicked!

Wicked! is the third studio album by German band Scooter, released in 1996. It contains two singles, "I'm Raving", and "Break It Up".

Track listing

All songs written by H.P. Baxxter, Rick J. Jordan, Jens Thele, and Ferris Bueller, except "I'm Raving" written by Marc Cohn; and "Don't Let It Be Me" and "Break It Up" written by Nosie Katzmann.

"Wicked Introduction" – 1:44

"I'm Raving"– 3:28

"We Take You Higher" – 4:22

"Awakening" – 4:26

"When I Was a Young Boy" – 3:58

"Coldwater Canyon" – 5:16

"Scooter Del Mar" – 4:58

"Zebras Crossing the Street" – 4:58

"Don't Let It Be Me" – 3:59

"The First Time" – 5:25

"Break It Up" – 3:39

"Wicked Introduction" is the tune of "Scotland the Brave". The next song, "I'm Raving", features samples of the same song, and also "Walking in Memphis" by Marc Cohn.

"When I Was A Young Boy" has almost identical music to the song "Babylon (Loop! Remix)" by Prince Ital Joe featuring Marky Mark.

"The First Time" features the piano sample from U2's "New Year's Day (song)"

Charts

References

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Wicked (musical album)

Wicked is a cast recording containing the majority of the songs from the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Wicked, with music and lyrics by composer Stephen Schwartz and a book by writer Winnie Holzman. Released on December 16, 2003 by Decca Broadway both in physical and digital releases. The former contains a foreword and a short synopsis, provided by Gregory Maguire, who wrote the 1995 novel on which the musical is based, in addition to lyrics to those songs included.

Composer and lyricist of Wicked, Stephen Schwartz, produced the album aided by Frank Filipetti, Jill Dell'Abate, Jason Spears, Justin Shturtz, Jason Stasium and Ted Jensen. The original cast album of Wicked was recorded on November 10, 2003, with the full cast and orchestra, at then-Right Track Studios and mastered at Sterling Sound in New York City.

The cast recording has received positive reviews and has received substantial commercial success. It received the 2005 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 2005 and although initially peaking at number 125 on the Billboard 200 in 2003, has since reached the new peak of 77 in 2011. The album was certified platinum on November 30, 2006 by the RIAA, but has since been certified double platinum, four years later, on November 8, 2010. It has sold 2,439,000 copies in the U.S. as of February 2014.

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Wicked (Sinitta album)

Wicked is the second studio album by American singer Sinitta. It was released in 1989.

Album information

Following the release of her debut album Sinitta! in 1987 Sinitta moved away from working directly with Stock Aitken Waterman although she continued to record at PWL under the direction of mixmasters Pete Hammond, Phil Harding and Ian Curnow. Her second album, Wicked released in 1989 contained only one SAW track- "I Don't Believe In Miracles", two other tracks recorded with SAW in the same sessions "How Can This Be Real Love" and "Do You Wanna Find Out?" were ultimately shelved. The remaining tracks were produced by the aforementioned Hammond, Harding & Curnow in addition to Nigel Wright and German producer Ralf Rene Maue.

"Wicked" was a minor success on the charts. It missed the top forty in the United Kingdom and peaked at number fifty-two.

Track listing

Notes

Tracks 7, 14 and 15 are the bonus tracks on the CD version of the album. Not included on the vinyl version.

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Bleu

Bleu (musician)

Early career

BLEU

Wicked!

Track listing

Charts

References

Wicked (musical album)

Wicked (Sinitta album)

Album information

Track listing

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