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...Tullycraft is one of the best practitioners of twee, a musical genre that draws on the smooth boy-girl harmonies, catchy beats, innocent lyrics and the sheer musical simplicity of the ’50s and ’60s. Twee is, at its best, carefully crafted bubblegum pop with a slight alternative bent...
...what does an LMF song have that you can't get in a bubblegum-smacking Kelly Chan tune? "They say what the young want to say," says Cheung Chi Wai, a 29-year-old photographer who has worked with the band. "It's not about foul language. The young generation gets the lyrics because they've had the same experience." Twenty-nine-year-old lyricist and rapper Chan Kwong-yan, a.k.a. M.C. Yan, wants to make music that reflects the way people really talk. "We use a lot of Cantonese street slang in our songs. Canto-pop love songs...
...singularly impressive array of prepubescent has-beens. Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears have also warbled and shimmied their respective ways into brazen, busty music icons. However, after a summer dominated by the multi-diva scream-fest “Lady Marmalade” from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack, bubblegum pop seems to have momentarily burst. From its ashes, a new breed of artists has risen—still barely out of (or still attending) high school, but with more poise, more maturity, more substance and certainly more fully clothed than the vocalists who have dominated music charts over the past...
...album also includes some beautiful, jangly, almost poppy songs, though never losing the bite that sets them apart from the bubblegum variety. “My Number” might have been simply a love song, only Tegan keeps on telling you, “It’s a silly time to learn to swim when you start to drown.” The lyrics are savvy and young at the same time, a rare and precious mix. The story is that their live act has more attitude than Bono in a sunglass store, and I can believe...
...album also includes some beautiful, jangly, almost poppy songs, though never losing the bite that sets them apart from the bubblegum variety. “My Number” might have been simply a love song, only Tegan keeps on telling you, “It’s a silly time to learn to swim when you start to drown.” The lyrics are savvy and young at the same time, a rare and precious mix. The story is that their live act has more attitude than Bono in a sunglass store, and I can believe...