Word: balladeer
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...live in a house and vote one another out on the basis of their progress in becoming slick professional singers. (Imagine the cheese factor of Big Brother, Survivor and American Idol--in French.) But just a few hours after her edict about performing, Twain, 37, is singing her signature ballad, You're Still the One, in a duet with Jeremy, a young Frenchman whose penchant for accidental key changes augurs poorly for an extended stay at le Star Academy chateau. As Jeremy bludgeons the first verse, Twain closes her eyes and sways in a convincing facsimile of joy. Star Academy...
...simple / Born on third. Thinks he got a triple,” Vedder sardonically intones on “Bushleager.” But the rest of the album is some of the most personal, intimate material that Pearl Jam has ever produced, most strikingly the folk ballad “Thumbing My Way.” “Love Boat Captain” features some lush Hammond organ work, while Vedder declares, “I know it’s already been sung, but it can’t be said enough / All you need is love...
...BALLAD OF BEN (COOTER) JONES, FROM THE DUKES OF HAZZARD, WHO LOST HIS CONGRESSIONAL RACE IN VIRGINIA BY 40 POINTS AFTER MOVING THERE WHEN HE LOST HIS SEAT IN GEORGIA...
...taken as a ballad - a narrative poem - "Blood Song" becomes beautiful and expansive. Like a ballad, its story exits only as a thread for the reader to follow through the metaphors and themes. One way of reading it, for example, is a story about the transition from child to adult - moving from careless tranquility through tempestuous seas to the world of responsibility and childbirth...
...course, as a ballad, you also read "Blood Song" as much for the way it tells the story as for the story itself. With a traditional ballad you may notice the rhyme scheme or alliteration. Here you marvel at Drooker's skill as an artist. Reminiscent of Masereel's woodcuts, Drooker uses scratchboard, where you carve out the lines rather than draw them in. Over this he adds layers of slate-gray watercolor for tone and depth. Then, amidst this near-monochrome world, at sparingly particular moments, he adds a zap of color: a bird, a butterfly, or blood...