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Jerkins likes to get to know performers so he can craft songs that fit their personality (he had many a phone conversation with Toni Braxton before co-writing and producing her current Top 10 song He Wasn't Man Enough). He describes his music as "an R.-and-B. pop classical sound." His songs typically mix deep bass grooves with bright rivers of strings. Listening to a Jerkins song is like driving through the 'hood in a limo. Even his missteps intrigue. On the new Spears CD, he produced a remake of the Rolling Stones' classic...
...sound and her image (she co-wrote several of the songs on Fear of Flying). "This album was an opportunity and a test," she says. Mya was assisted by a stellar group of producers, including Swizz Beatz, Wyclef Jean (of the Fugees) and Rodney Jerkins (who worked on Toni Braxton's sultry new CD, The Heat). On her previous album Mya was a lovestruck teen; on her new album she's a woman coming face to face with romantic entanglements. But, let's face it, the lyrics aren't really what matter here. What's important is that many...
...their talents go to waste, trapped within the confines of one-joke roles. Butler had to contend with well over half of her lines involving the living conditions of chickens, while Lozada was stymied by her character's Rumplestiltskian obsession over her name. Showcase cameos by producers Shelby Braxton-Brooks '03 and Zadoc Angell '03 seemed merely self-indulgent; Braxton-Brooks' Jade, while wonderfully domineering and beautifully danced, was a departure from the already shaky plotline, and Angell couldn't manage to make the animated-John-Harvard-statue gag any funnier than it wasn't in Puck Willoughby...
...half time of Super Bowl XXXIV in Atlanta, the NFL and Disney will unveil "Tapestry of Nations," a global-diversity play narrated by Edward James Olmos and featuring aerial dancers, puppets, a multigenerational choir, a symphony orchestra, and music by Phil Collins, Enrique Iglesias, Toni Braxton and Christina Aguilera. Too much? Perhaps, though the quality of the Super Bowl's 10-min. themed extravaganzas may actually be improving. Some historical evidence...
...Mather single. Those expecting the seven women who play the flygirls to be just as saucy as the dishes they play onstage will find nothing of the sort. The characters may be a nice piece of sass, but the women who play them (Sabrina K. Blum '03, Shelby J. Braxton-Brooks '03, Jody E. Flader '02, Juliene James '00, Sofia A. Lidskog '01, Yayoi J. Shionoiri '00, and Jennie D. Tarr '01) are just plain nice. What these seven girls share most with the flygirls is their unbridled enthusiasm for the show. Despite the fact that they have...