Word: balladic
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...former hits. Upbeat tunes “Australia” and “Red Rabbits” offer a taste of Mercer & co.’s old-school eclecticism before they too fall victim to the album’s noisy, unnecessary fuzz. Even the softly spoken ballad, “A Comet Appears,” is too familiar to be considered a total reinvention and too mediocre to hold a place with the rest of The Shins oeuvre. The Shins’ old albums gave us quirky, inventive music that became corrupted by association...
...Home for Christmas." Addressing not just Christmas but all the chilly months, Wintersong is truly a seasonal CD. My favorite pieces are by two of the singer's fellow Canadians. Gordon Lightfoot's "Song for a Winter's Night" is another lonely-in-the-cold ballad - "If I could only have you near / To breathe a sigh or two / I would be happy just to hold the hands I love / On this winter's night with you" - that McLachlan treats as both a prayer and a plea. In her take on Joni Mitchell's "River" she gives us a little...
...Fish Leong—“Yong Qi.” The best ballad I’ve heard in years comes from China...
When The Deal Goes Down A plaintive world-weary ballad, with the end close but the singer is ready for what comes. The beauty of the lyrics and of the song belie the inevitable, and evoke hope through the bond of a shared mortality and love shared : “In this earthly domain full of disappointment and pain/ You’ll never see me frown./ I give my heart to you, and that’s saying it true,/ And I’ll be with you when the deal goes down...
Writer-director Bill Condon has made some compromises too: pumping up the role of a James Brownish belter to get Eddie Murphy more screen time, handing Beyonc a new ballad to even out a story that belongs to Effie. But, hey, that's show biz, and Dreamgirls has plenty of visual pizazz to match its cast's charisma. American Idol's Hudson is sensational, mixing tenderness and the truculence of an oughta-be star...