Word: anthemic
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...stuff for modern kids: the ones who are primal enough to giggle at a peepee rainbow (created by infants in a nursery) and the "pooped in his pantsie" jokes, yet canny enough to finish the film's sentence "Born under Venus, look for a..." In the catchy newborn nursery anthem This World Is Something New to Me, kids may understand the line "This world is such a gas!" followed by an impolite noise, and the baleful "I can barely hear myself suck!" but not the pouty "I miss my old womb," and maybe not the exchange between a female voice...
...from Springsteen's 1972 audition for the legendary record producer John Hammond. It's an unguarded performance, brimming with innocence and promise. Later, on Tracks, he delivers a fierce, Delta blues-infused performance of Born in the U.S.A. The arena-rock album version was sometimes misinterpreted as a jingoistic anthem, but there's no mistaking the bitterness and disillusionment in this sparer take. The set is also adorned with such previously unheard gems as the rousing Santa Ana and the sublime ballad Sad Eyes...
...teacher's students go to her house at about 5 a.m., dressed in their Santa Lucia costumes," she said. "The students wake up the teacher by singing `Santa Lucia,' the anthem, and offering the teacher baked goods...
...next track, "Fine and Good" opens with an acoustic intro with a spacey background, setting the scene for the eventual rocking climax. "Lead Pipe Cinch" eerily resembles a Soul Asylum acoustic number, but this aura is broken by "Cool Magnet," a pulsating anthem that could become the album's dark horse hit. Though not yet receiving radio airplay, it conveys the raw, hardcore emotion that is great for blasting out the car window while cruising down the highway at 80 miles per hour...
Michael Kotutwa Johnson, a senior at Cornell University and a member of the Hopi tribe, interrupted the readings to sing a song that he described as the Native American national anthem...