Word: balladic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sweltering heat.” There’s no question that Crow has been reading her World Book—in the space of the first five tracks we’re taken on a travelogue that drops us at Lake Pontchartrain (in the up-beat post-Katrina ballad “Love is Free”), Riyadh, Alexandria, the Ganges, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, and Washington.Of course, with worldly knowledge there’s always a catch: if you don’t want to sound like the name-dropping tool at a Rhodes Scholar cocktail schmooze, you?...
...fantasy of creative ferment, with themselves at the center, or thereabouts. Of course, there will always be those who dream of moving there so they can do exciting new things with municipal-bond financing or start their own hedge fund, but those people will never get their own power ballad in the second act of Rent...
...thin air as a mere custom or product. To the contrary, romantic love is a human universal. In 1896 a Kwakiutl Indian in southern Alaska wrote the lament "Fire runs through my body--the pain of loving you," which could be the title of a bad power ballad today. Similar outpourings of passion can be found all over the world from those with broken hearts...
...Just over a week ago, the music video of the ballad, “Because of the Memories,” was officially released on the Internet. The music video is a patchwork montage of photographs spanning Baek’s life, providing glimpses into his childhood, his admission into Harvard, and his life as a musician...
...weeks ago, and has unsurprisingly already claimed the number one spot on Billboard’s “Hot 100” chart. Who can resist a bouncy beat–or Nappy Boy, for that matter? Aside from the typical bump-and-grind songs, a few impressive ballads are presented in the album as well. Brown’s ballad “I Wanna Be” proves to be one of his more moving efforts. Over a gentle piano melody, he sings longingly to a benefitless friend from whom he wants more. The subject matter makes...