Word: balladic
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Virtually every Parker production wants to be a musical, and Team America somehow accommodates eight songs that poke fun in the eye of the Broadway-style ballad (Kim warbles "I'm So Ronery"), the Alan Jackson inspirational anthem ("Freedom Isn't Free") and Bruckheimer's costliest epic ("I miss you/ More than Michael Bay missed the mark when he made Pearl Harbor"). They keep the smiles coming until the end, when the film goes numbingly nuts and expends all its imagination on ways to kill off people like Helen Hunt and Janeane Garofalo...
...album pounds away with track after track of similar glee, mixing the melodies but keeping the attitude, never resorting to a schlocky ballad or any other break from the frantic pace. Lyrics tell of boys that come and go, but their lyrics of love and loss, pain and joy rarely come to the forefront: A deliberate move, apparently, on an album that relies instead on spiky hooks and sugary harmonies, Casio keyboards and above all, never-flagging energy...
...eyes on for two years. He also faced occasional scoldings from people who wondered why he didn't try to stop the killing. DIED. SKEETER DAVIS, 72, one of America's first big-selling female country crossover acts, who hit the pop charts in 1963 with the ballad The End of the World and was a regular on the Grand Ole Opry radio show for 45 years; in Nashville, Tennessee. DIED. MARVIN MITCHELSON, 76, divorce lawyer whose advocacy of the right to alimony without marriage ("palimony") earned him a famous client list; in Beverly Hills, California...
When you're singing a ballad and the roller coaster goes by, you gotta be quick on your feet. So I think it's gonna help. Unfortunately, I was born too late for the Rat Pack. Born too late for the Rat Pack, and Paris Hilton calls me Mr. Danza...
...radio as he was of Merle Haggard, and on McGraw's past tour he performed a surprisingly faithful cover of Tiny Dancer that left Elton John gushing. He has also taken the stage with good friend Kid Rock, an avowed conservative, and recently recorded a hip-hop ballad with Nelly for the rapper's new album. "Tim's supercool, man," says Nelly. "His taste in music is a lot broader than people think...