Word: balladeer
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...fate on a pedestal, and, while not worshipping it, at the very least affirms its primacy in the governance of our lives. Some will take this as an excuse for the singer's recent course. Yet how can we not respect the passion and conviction with which this haunting ballad is delivered...
...store and gazes solemnly at the disco posters that cover the back wall, her eyes moving from one to another, surveying all their details. But the music playing in the shop is not disco; it is the sad and beautiful voice of a woman singing a classical Indian ballad. The young girl stares blankly for more than 15 minutes. She slowly lowers her head and walks back out into the sunlight...
...from the open window's the B-52s and their tender ballad. "Rock Lobster, blare. That isn't all: people are playing catch with beer kegs, tossing them out the third floor window to friends waiting on the ground. And that isn't all; inside the Winthrop House suite they are playing football, tackle football, and there is a large bole developing in one wall. When the House Master orders them to stop, they offer him a beer: when the senior tutor calls the police, someone hears the sirens, gets the idea there is a fire, and empties every extinguisher...
...England right now." She has done a video presentation of Bette Davis Eyes that looks like a production number from Scaramouche as directed by Federico Fellini. In fact, her Minstrels past and her new romantic future seem equally synthetic. She has, simply, a good solid way with a ballad. She is the kind of stylist an earlier time would have called a thrush, and despite what she calls her "perpetual frog," she sings as if she has a gardenia behind...
Like the lovelorn belter of the 1940s ballad Don't Get Around Much Anymore, more and more Americans are becoming chronic stay-at-homes. The high price of a night on the town is a contributing factor, but the lure of an evening in the house is more apt to center on what their owners call media rooms or entertainment centers...