Word: anthem
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Slipknot’s newest single, “Heretic Anthem,” illustrates their commitment to rejecting the saccharine sweat world of commercial success: “I’m a pop star threat and I’m not dead yet… It’s evilsonic, it’s pornaholic / Breakdowns, obscenities, it’s all I wanna be / If you’re 555 then I’m 666!” The band are not Satanic, yet they use Satanic imagery as a means to express their rejection...
They announced the Met starting lineups in Yiddish—“Shlomo Cedeno” for Roger Cedeno was a favorite—and then they asked us to stand for the American and Israeli national anthems. Stango, one of the few Brooklynites who actually says “youse,” wouldn’t get up. “I’m telling youse guys,” he said. “My ex-girlfriend was Jewish, and I’ve heard this anthem. It’s about a half-hour...
...moment conjures up a dozen thoughts in my head. How much more does the anthem at the beginning of each game mean now? Will they ever have a Jewish Heritage Day again, or would it be too much of a target? If we accidentally showed up at one by accident next year, would we get up and leave...
PAUL MCCARTNEY and rapper Jay-Z don't appear, at first glance, to have loads in common: one is the pushing-60 former Beatle who sang "Life Goes On"; the other is the thirtysomething former street hustler who sang Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem). But both performed without material reward Saturday at the Concert for New York City in Madison Square Garden, a benefit for Sept. 11 attack victims that McCartney headlined. A Woodstock's worth of musicians did their thing, including David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Billy Joel, the Who and Elton John. Short films by Woody Allen, Spike...
...imbuing it with an almost oppressively romantic quality. The same song represents Bis’ new approach at its best, boasting a multi-tiered structure and intriguing ending, which, with its cut up breakbeats and 303 acid pulses, resembles—of all things—a darkside rave anthem from the early...