Word: backbeats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...inadequate or too late. Rudd is on a climate-change crusade. It's the area where he is moving out of the centrist comfort zone with risky populism. If elected, Rudd is proposing to achieve a 60% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Risky populism is becoming the backbeat to Doing a Kevin. Rudd is chasing a younger crowd through appearances on puerile FM radio shows. One of the medium's luminaries, Jackie O, asked Rudd if he would continue to appear on her program if he became P.M. "Happy to come on the date, the time...
...soul/funk and modern hip-hop. It tells the story of a woman asking to be treated like a certain man’s money, because—since he’s a greedy, money-grubbing sort—this means she would be treated very well. The backbeat is fantastic; the use of the lyric, “You spin me right round” toward the song’s end, however, is not. If you aren’t already a fan of Macy Gray, this album isn’t likely to win you over. None...
...feat. But the energy of RJD2’s unique compilations wears off after about the fourth track, once it becomes apparent that nearly every song has the same intro. First there’s about ten to 20 seconds of lethargic high-pitched electronic tones; then come the backbeat and drums; and finally, ten to 20 seconds later, the vocals. “Beyond,” “Murs Beat,” and “Get It” are striking examples of this formula. “Beyond” is also easily...
...Ward’s harmonica playing, as well as the presence of a full band (perhaps too full, with two drummers/percussionists) both live and on “Post-War,” didn’t unravel the intimacy of his words with overstuffed sound. While the solid backbeat dissolved the illusion that Ward’s songs were quiet confessions (except for the beautiful “I’ll Be Yr Bird,” which Ward performed in the encore before his band joined him), this did less to depersonalize the songs than...
...believers refer to their passion, has been largely ignored by the mainstream media, it is flourishing on the Internet. One of the most popular conspiracy videos online is Loose Change, a 90-min. blizzard of statistics, photographs, documents, eyewitness accounts and expert testimony set to a trippy hip-hop backbeat. It's designed to pick apart, point by point, the conventional narrative of what happened on Sept...