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...where she was. Her new single, Can't Get You Out of My Head, has a chorus that goes, "La la la, la la la la la, la la la"; the video shows Minogue, nearly naked, grooving through a gauzy soft-core cityscape. The song is No. 11 on Billboard's Top 100 singles chart...
Richard Phillip’s “Untitled (Smiley)” (2000) evokes billboard and pop art. This adolescent ingenue looks down on the viewer with an insouciant sneer that recalls a mix between a 1960s beach babe pin-up and a Rosenquist parody of American pop culture. The blaring yellow happy face placed like an enormous sticker over her nipple confronts the viewer with its insistent smile...
...Music. Vanessa-Mae and her acolytes reduce the fuddy-duddy factor. Kids can relate. "Classical music is an underexploited commodity in Asia given that there is a strong tradition of Asian parents who want their children to play the violin or piano," says Steve McClure, Asia bureau chief for Billboard magazine. In the hands of a group like bond, a classical piece sounds like a palatable pop song that won't frighten away the folks while pulling in the kids. "It makes the music accessible," says Jamie Lee, music manager for the Singapore Symphony Orchestra...
...call the vocalist a singularly talented virtuoso still cannot completely capture the music that swirls once he takes the stage, but it’s pretty close. You could boil Bobby McFerrin down to trivia: collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. Or cite numbers: a Billboard number one single, ten grammys, twenty million copies and seemingly infinite praise or genres: jazz, pop, classical, gospel. But even the sum total of these elements could not hope to sum up the anticipation or the result that was his performance at Sanders Theater...
...depends on the number of live pixels on the screen; the more there are, the easier and quicker it is to compile an image. Marie reconstructs the image from what appear to be a series of strobe flashes, an experience that's a bit like watching a miniature stadium billboard, on which images are also compiled from groups of individual flashing lights...