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Jonno already had 15 years of classical training on the piano, and played the drums, guitar and bass...
...September 1995, a combination VCR and TV disappeared from the Greenough common room. Later in the year, a bass guitar, jewelry and other personal items were stolen from dorm rooms...
...those who have seen Thornton as Karl Childers in Sling Blade can't get that face out of their bad dreams. The skin is celibate smooth, the eyes clamped shut to keep the demons out, or in. And when the pursed mouth opens, it speaks, in a barrelly bass, of dreadful sins and Old Testament vengeance. Karl is a slow-witted killer--he murdered his mother and her lover when he was 12--with the visage of a fallen angel in private, permanent pain...
Badu's voice isn't cuddly or cozy; it's sharp and metallic at points, wounded and sad at others. Most of the songs on Baduizm are slow, supple and subtle. Certainly, with its naked gurgling bass, feels like a wee-hours jazz improv and sounds like a love ballad; it's actually a look at the dysfunctional "love affair" America has with its black citizens. Drama, despite its title, starts placidly but later crests as Badu laments symptoms of modern life: "race relations/ segregation/ no occupation/ world inflation...
None of the songs on Spice, from the slumberous ballad 2 Become 1 to the bass-heavy party jam Something Kinda Funny, come across as deeply felt; they all seem designed to amuse, titillate, ingratiate. Members of the group, however, beg to differ. "We don't try to please anybody," says Mel C. "What we're doing is what we want to do, what we really enjoy, and if people are receptive to it, then that's brilliant." The girls say there are positive themes in their peppy tunes. For example, Wannabe declares that friendships are more important than love...