Word: balladic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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None of the songs on Spice, from the slumberous ballad 2 Become 1 to the bass-heavy party jam Something Kinda Funny, come across as deeply felt; they all seem designed to amuse, titillate, ingratiate. Members of the group, however, beg to differ. "We don't try to please anybody," says Mel C. "What we're doing is what we want to do, what we really enjoy, and if people are receptive to it, then that's brilliant." The girls say there are positive themes in their peppy tunes. For example, Wannabe declares that friendships are more important than love...
...often associate music with the special times in our lives--the ballad that was playing at the close of our high school prom, the love melody at our wedding reception, the trip-hop song that was blaring as we picked up boxer shorts at Banana Republic...
...affairs, the desperate wait for the phone to ring, all resonate in his lyrics. Almost all the songs on Recovering the Satellites are written in the first person, and the first half of the album dwells on Duritz's struggles with the media spotlight. Goodnight Elisabeth is a melancholy ballad about a woman (not Aniston) Duritz dated who had trouble dealing with his constant touring. Have You Seen Me Lately? is a forceful rocker that examines Duritz's uneasy romance with fame ("You got a piece of me/ But it's just a little piece...
Only sometimes. In 1986 many of the best pictures from her ever changing slide show were collected in a much talked about book, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. And what Goldin has learned since then about the inexplicable pleasures of life is evident in a wonderful recent shot of her mother laughing. But when her own life's work faces you in bulk, at least in the 275-picture bulk hauled up by the Whitney, the slack starts to show. Goldin is a diarist, with a diarist's instincts for the ways into her own saga but also the same...
Singing "Blowin' in the Wind," a ballad they first performed three decades ago during the politically tumultuous 1960s, Peter, Paul and Mary urged the audience to reelect the incumbents...