Word: anthemic
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...pathetic. The song, in effect an interior monologue, defers her disillusionment to celebrate her undiminished presence. The assertive With One Look and the lilting, wistful New Ways to Dream are engaging paeans to bygone achievements. Her pretty boy's 11 numbers amount to even less. Only his cynical anthem to ambition, Sunset Boulevard, derives added power from being sung. The most conspicuous lack, a satisfying duet, is inherent in the original. This is not so much a love story as a deceitful encounter between two moral failures, a woman absorbed in self-love and a man mired in self-hate...
...July 9 Clinton sang the national anthem in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, before a motorcycle jump-off featuring Evel Knievel...
...stare at your window and I cry/ I love you so much/ I love you too much." He brings equal ardor to Two Hearts, a Latin-tinged Valentine levitated by his soaring falsetto, and a stirring remake of Neil Diamond's Solitary Man, which he transforms into an existential anthem for tough-yet-sensitive guys. When Isaak sings, "Me and Sue -- that died too," his voice almost cracks with manly anguish...
...album is full of such congenial collaborations and astonishments: Nelson with Sinead O'Connor on Peter Gabriel's anthem of tentative renewal, Don't Give Up; Nelson and Bonnie Raitt making Getting Over You into a dialogue of broken hearts; Dylan co-writing and singing with Nelson on a fine new song, Heartland, which has the aura and impact of a Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl ballad; Nelson singing on his own, cutting loose on a joyous Willie Dixon blues and having a great time visiting Simon's Graceland...
...game was never close--unless one counts the scoreless tie following the national anthem...