Word: ballads
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...understand that it is a privilege to live in your home and that you are the gift. This is not a vacation. This is the beginning of a lot of work." When the admonitions were finished, the lights were dimmed, and the syrupy melody of the Diana Ross ballad If We Hold On Together wafted through the room as Norum instructed the parents to form a circle, close their eyes and take deep breaths. "I'm inviting you to go back before the chaos, when you felt unconditional joy, when your child wanted to hug you. That child...
Dylan’s popularity immediately took off after his ballad, “Blowin’ in the Wind,” was brought to a commercial audience by the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Sullivan points out Dylan’s relevance to one of the greatest moments in the American Civil Rights movement by adding that Dylan was introduced at the March on Washington shortly before Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream Speech...
...band nonetheless managed to break through in 1986 with an Arab-accented cover of Charles Trenet's nostalgic Douce France (Sweet France), a wartime ballad extolling an insouciant, bucolic nation of villages, church bells and endless horizons. The ironic reminder of the less-than-sweet treatment reserved for France's immigrants and minority populations propelled Douce France into the charts, and set the tone for Taha's subsequent releases...
Stipe, a vocal liberal, drew some boos for his next sartorial choice, the Kerry shirt he revealed underneath the Sox jersey. Unfazed by the mixed crowd, the band played their current single, “Leaving New York,” a grand, sweeping ballad that resounded in live manifestation...
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...