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...months), volume (saturation marketing by Curb). The new CD--12 songs of inspiration, from The Rose to God Bless America--rarely unleashes Rimes' gloriously freaky soprano; at times she sounds intimidated, like a child called on to sing before stern church elders. Only in an a cappella National Anthem does she let loose the trills and glissandi; but, really, is that a cut you'll want to play...
...remember going to school, not having to sing 'God Save the Queen' but singing another anthem, and all the British flags coming down, to be replaced by Kenyan ones," says Asani, who grew up in Africa. "Also, after independence, the school curriculum changed to stress Africa. Before, we studied Britain and Europe, and next to nothing about Africa...
...these have been based largely on a Faustian handshake: the company's willingness to gamble on edgy, explicit music made by edgy, unpredictable performers. The artists include Snoop Doggy Dogg, whose resume includes a drug conviction, and Manson, whose malevolent twist includes such ditties as Tourniquet and Irresponsible Hate Anthem. Their discs have attracted millions of young buyers fascinated by the music's aggression and X-rated imagery...
...Dreamgirls) and director-choreographer Robert Longbottom (Christmas shows for the Rockettes). The show percolates best in a couple of brisk, ersatz-vaudeville numbers (one features dancing Egyptians, swan-shaped harps and a crocodile) and in a soul-inflected showstopper, The Devil You Know. And there's at least one anthem-like ballad, Who Will Love Me As I Am? that should have Whitney Houston on the phone to her agent...
...band on its 1996 world tour, beginning with Crazy Horse members lining up in single file as if for a police lineup. But they aren't the usual rock suspects, nor is this your usual "rockumentary." Neil Young, a hugely successful and influential performer who composed the eternal rock anthem "Rockin' in the Free World," a hit MTV Unplugged album in 1993, and the Oscar-winning title track from Philadelphia, is an amazing artist who more than deserves a serious documentary of his own. Yet Jarmusch, though he does spend time probing Young's past--including his childhood in Canada...