Word: albums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reality: Manson's latest album, Mechanical Animals, sold more than 1 million; Corey's Still Searching for Soul sold fewer than...
...Dead (but I Don't Know It), is the plaint of a pop singer who, after 30 years, has "nothing left to say/ But I'm gonna say it anyway." Newman dares you to wonder if he thinks he is that played-out star--and if, in the album's closing song (which has the sing-along simplicity of his Pixar film tunes), he is at all serious when he sings I Want Everyone to Like...
After three decades on the Reprise label, singing acerb ballads and jingles that became hits for others (I Think It's Going to Rain Today, Mama Told Me Not to Come) and, vagrantly, for himself (Short People, I Love L.A.), Newman has moved to DreamWorks to release his first album of plain old songs since Land of Dreams, his 1988 masterpiece of autobiographical melancholy. How nice to discover that a change of venue hasn't changed his mood. On the 12 cuts of Bad Love, Newman still sees the world as a nasty place full of sad, warped people...
Ricky Martin is right to say he "didn't have to go to English to make it." The new English-language album seriously lacks the intense flavor and zest of his four previous Spanish releases. The watered-down American pop doesn't show half of what he is capable of doing. Hey, Ricky, those of us who see you in our dreams want you whispering those sweet nothings in Spanish. JULIANNE HANSON Fremont, Calif...
...matter-of-factly. "Next door" turned out to be the Juilliard School of Music, where Lan studied viola and piano, performed at Lincoln Center, and eventually produced a prelude for the viola quintet and a chant and recitative for the viola and piano. These works were recorded on an album and sold in record stores nationwide...