Word: ballads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old Britney Spears' first album feels like the opposite of adolescence: the songs are mostly slick and remote, steering away from anything that's too deeply felt. The title track is cuddly, though, and already a hit single. A few of her songs, including the pleasantly modern ballad E-Mail My Heart, indeed deliver a sugar high, and may well win over the very same crowd that goes for tot-pop acts like the Spice Girls and Brandy. But ultimately not enough of this album excites, involves or surprises. Like youth itself, the pleasures of this debut are fleeting...
...anticrime leanings: his new album, like his last, which went double platinum, is seething with viciousness and violence. His lyrics--often simple and clumsy--attack other black people, homosexuals and women. DMX is at his best when he becomes more contemplative, as he does in Coming From, a moving ballad he performs with singer Mary J. Blige. Attacking minorities isn't the most original notion, and it's also rather cowardly. Why not have the guts to challenge the powerful...
...this album, every cut hits. It's often hard to find the latest singles and albums by reggae newcomers in mainstream record stores; Platinum Reggae deftly presents recent work by the most exciting contemporary Jamaican reggae stars. There's a winning duet between vocalists Luciano and Sizzla, a ballad by veteran performer Gregory Isaacs, and wonderful contributions from a host of other artists. It's a trip to Kingston, no passport necessary...
Following more yelling from the audience, Dylan mutters some incomprehensible words under his breath, tricking the audience into silence, and then kicks into high gear "One Too Many Mornings." In "Ballad Of A Thin Man" Dylan feasts on his victory, taunting the unhappy members of audience with some bars of solo piano but then offering "You know something is happening, but you don't know what it is. Do you Mr. Jones?" as a blatant challenge. Even the heckler, accusing him of personifiying Judas, could not stop Dylan. He turned to the Hawks, and uncharacterlistically cursed, "Play fuckin' loud!" They...
...performance of Born in the U.S.A. The arena-rock album version was sometimes misinterpreted as a jingoistic anthem, but there's no mistaking the bitterness and disillusionment in this sparer take. The set is also adorned with such previously unheard gems as the rousing Santa Ana and the sublime ballad Sad Eyes...