Word: blanding
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...might have overlooked these glaring circumcisions from Hornby’s work if there had been a single memorable tune in the show. Instead, each song in the score regurgitates the same chord progression and is littered with irredeemably bad lyrics. Rob and his girlfriend, Laura, portrayed by the bland Jenn Colella, sleep with new people shortly after breaking up and concurrently sing about it—he, “I slept with someone who slept with Lyle Lovett” and she, “I slept with someone who handled Kurt Cobain’s intervention...
Though these two teenagers are painted vividly, they also seem to be very boring people who don’t show any character growth. At first I took this to be a failing on the author’s part, but upon reflection, Schrefer has accurately depicted the bland personalities of many who want for nothing (except higher SAT scores...
...Strange, isn't it, how the powerful get short-circuited from their power base. Too often, people whose job it is to lead by listening have the tendency to go politically deaf in times of crisis - to proceed as if nothing had happened, to sleepwalk in a state of bland or numb denial...
.../Let’s go to the movies/Annie, wait and see.” Let’s go to the movies? Hm…I’d rather catch-up on “Dancing with the Stars” than watch an unabashedly bland Keanu Reeves try desperately to communicate with a woman from another time…through a mailbox. It seems that instead of attempting to reinvigorate the age-old pastime of movie-going, the big studios are simply making a slew of mediocre movies to fill the void left by quality films such...
...over the hook, and c) is inexplicably produced by Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda. Add that to the bloated shout-outro and you’ve got 15 full minutes of lame. Plus, Fiasco’s got some growing to do. His rhythms are varied but bland; his rhymes cling to the beat’s skirts, rarely venturing into dangerous territory. Most worryingly, he can’t muster much charm. Still, one gets the sense Lupe’s a quick study; no doubt he’ll develop a stronger personality...