Word: balladic
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...been just as fraught with contradictions. Critic Phil Ramone said, “She sings like an angel,” while the New York Press raved that she “sings like a bastard.” She captures all the heartfelt bravado of a power ballad. And the audience, watching her take over the stage with unapologetic force, can only hang on tight and think, “This is going to be one hell of a ride...
When Pat Metheny took the stage at the Orpheum Theatre on April 14, he set the stage for an evening of unadorned music. Unassumingly dressed under a tangled mat of hair, Metheny sat on a monitor speaker, hunched over his guitar and eased into a straightforward, honest folk ballad...
...latest, A New Day Has Come? No doubt the many folks who enjoy a nice voice singing a nice song. Dion's voice is a strong instrument with terrific range, and on New Day she has even learned to modulate it. On the restrained title track and the ballad I'm Alive, she has cast aside the chest beating of My Heart Will Go On. The 16 songs, credited to a long list of professional scribes, are mostly pap; there are the usual third-chorus key changes--take it up a notch!--and the lyrics are a bland word salad...
...existence of these well-constructed elements that makes the show’s shortcomings so damnably frustrating. In a musical, there are moments which just have to happen: the ingenues’ ballad, the hero’s declaration, the ignored second banana’s moment to shine. Sweet Smell has those moments, but that’s all that occurs—they just happen. The lovebirds sing one insipid tune after another…well, actually, just a couple between them, but each with at least one ill-advised reprise. Sidney’s big moment...
...electronic mischief, there are a couple of toe-curlingly beautiful tracks, “Even Song” and “Miles End,” courtesy of Ben Ottewell and his luscious bubblebath of a voice. The album wraps up in style with the “Ballad of Nice and Easy,” a rollicking track featuring all three vocalists, and the classic Gomez line, “Sooner or later there’s an end to this candle/ We’ll burn it at both ends and then switch on the light...