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...over the past year that it had a big part in your life. However, there were other activities that took up your time pre-thesis. Before you dive back into those, though, I suggest you undertake some quality time with the one and only Michael Bolton and his ballad, “How Am I Supposed to Live Without...
...WORDS Unlike most R&B singers, Ne-Yo writes his own material (or co-writes it, anyway), and the album title lets you know he would like a little respect for his work. The breakaway hit So Sick, a ballad about a brokenhearted guy who can't stop listening to brokenhearted ballads, delivers a light, genre-spoofing twist, but the other songs soar less on writerly sophistication than on Ne-Yo's deftness with a hook and particularly sincere brand of shamelessness. On It Just Ain't Right, he samples '80s legend DeBarge and confesses to an old girlfriend...
...wordless howler on Tricky's finest albums) and musical partner Will Gregory also have a sublime pop sensibility. Ooh la la is a sticky homage to Norman Greenbaum's Spirit in the Sky and Kylie Minogue's lyric book ("switch me on/ turn me up"). Meanwhile, the synth-rock ballad Number 1 has enough instantly memorable atmospherics to make its title prophetic...
...Gotta Reason,” he can’t quite pull it off. Most disappointing (besides the fact that “Living for the Weekend” is not an O’Jays cover) is “Move On Now,” a power ballad sans power, which treats the audience to five minutes worth of mopey piano. All the while Archer lets his inner Adam Levine out: falsetto cries of “baby baby” abound. Of course, even here Hard-Fi fails to completely capture the timbre of their source material...
...Peachum and her “Song of Sexual Dependency,” is a master of this music—which can be best described as “Cabaret” for more sophisticated listeners. The two classic songs from the opera, “The Ballad of Mack the Knife” and “Pirate Jenny,” are so well-performed and well-sung that I doubt I’ll ever be able to separate the memory of the former from the wide-eyed stare and thrilling voice of John D. Kapusta...