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...there was an explosive surprise, it came with the awarding of Best Song to a rap anthem in praise of a flesh peddler. Old-timers may look at the Best Song category and see a dreadful devolution over the decades, from the Gershwin and Kern winners of the 1930s to ?It?s Hard Out Here for a Pimp? this year. But, hell, the competition comprised of a woozy liturgical ballad from Crash and an uptempo number from the bottom of the Dolly Parton song trunk. And the winners, three exponents of Memphis hiphop, expressed more astonished delight than anyone except...
...Each cell is sealed off from the others and divided down the middle - the prisoner lives on one side and is brought into the other half only for interrogation or visits with a lawyer. At 8 a.m. a warning siren sounds, followed by the playing of the American national anthem...
There’s got to be something about the Facebook and Cambridge. The site was birthed here in our so-named river town, and now, as further proof of this rather unscientific correlation, students at Cambridge University in England have given Facebook an anthem. The appropriately-titled “The Facebook Song,” written by two undergraduate music students—Tommy Hewitt Jones and Pete Foggitt—has taken the online community by storm, leaving in its wake polemical new groups on facebook.com, a renaissance for the synthesized orchestra hit, and increasingly vocal recognition...
This Friday, you’ll be sure to hear something that will delight your ears, be it a guilty-pleasure pop anthem wrapped in middle school nostalgia, a fists-raised and lighters-out rock hit, or a smoky jazz classic that you (kinda-sorta) recognize. Oh, and best of all: it’s all been re-invented in a cappella close harmony replete with skits and assorted other antics...
They flung their gloves skyward, and tournament MVP Hayley Wickenheiser paraded son Noah around the ice just as she did in Salt Lake City four years ago; some got teary as the national anthem played at Palasport Olimpico. But this time the celebration was more about relief than jubilation...