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...leaving Warner Records, the only label she’s ever called home, and attempting to prove she’s worth the $120 million Live Nation offered her to jump ship. Whatever the reasons behind her decision to work with these hitmen, the results are quite brilliant. The album may initially sound like everything else on the radio right now, but we’re soon reminded that this is Madonna, and Madonna will never sound quite like anyone else...
...edge with her.It has taken them a decade, but Portishead have reinvented themselves so successfully that they barely identify with their past. For diehards, the new maturity may result in something like empty nest syndrome. What Portishead is now interested in is visceral, confrontational, alarming, and totally brilliant music.—Staff writer Ryan J. Meehan can be reached at meehan@fas.harvard.edu...
...extremely well-received among the college-aged population as well. “Scintillating social portrait,” said Gregory R. Scruggs ’08. “Everything is either a parody, a satire, or kind of a dig at aspects of culture. Absolutely brilliant piece of work.” Students also expressed disbelief that violent video games can cause aggression, instead viewing gaming as a means of escapism. “I don’t particularly think there’s a huge link between violent video games and violence in the real world...
...rapper’ just breaking in.” His sentiments are echoed in “Guarantees,” where he states his deepest fear: someone might “kill me in my 30s in the name of progress.” Unfortunately, the brilliant line is forgotten as the song collapses into an unforgivably tacky conclusion, “The only guarantee in life is a life worth dying for,” a line that stands out awkwardly for its dowdiness in a brilliantly written album. But “Guarantees” is buried...
...late 1980s, the period in which he says the most substantive hip-hop was being created. Short of going back in time, Hurt wants to see the music’s negative aspects eliminated; such a move would result in what he calls a “new, brilliant black genre...