Word: cd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know what to do with a book--you write the book, you get the royalties. But it's not clear what you do with a CD-ROM, or you decide to broadcast your lectures or your course. Whose property is that? Is it the University's because we pay the salary?" he says...
...this is fuel for her new fire. Now the spotlight feels to her like an inferno, and her popularity looks like an abyss. "I traded fame for love," she laments on the CD's opening song, the gently cascading Drowned World/Substitute for Love. On the subdued Nothing Really Matters, she confesses "Looking at my life/It's very clear to me/I lived so selfishly...
...each other. This, however, is not a current of water but of electricity: the album is propelled by synthesized sounds, electronic drumbeats and artificial noises. Madonna is clearly borrowing heavily from cutting-edge electronica-tinged performers, including Goldie, Bjork and Aphex Twin. William Orbit, Madonna's collaborator on the CD (he co-wrote and co-produced nearly every track) says she might release a second CD featuring the songs that were too experimental to make the album. "It would be like the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," says Orbit, who has also worked with Seal and Massive Attack...
...CD's last track, the slow, electronic blues song Mer Girl, Madonna sings of searching: "I ran and ran/I was looking for me." She comes across a corpse: "I smelt her burning flesh/ Her rotting bones/Her decay." Madonna has suggested the song could have multiple meanings--it could be about AIDS, it could be about her late mother. In any case, the last moment of this CD is what makes it hit home. We have our body. We can empathize. That corpse at the end of Mer Girl could be Madonna, leaving yet another one of her public selves behind...
...Tamagotchi left you with the impression that all digital toys are brain dead, Lego Mindstorms could change your mind. This fall the venerable plastic building blocks will come with motors, sensors, cd-rom and computer controller, enabling kids to create blinking, thinking, moving robots. Developed with M.I.T.'s Media Lab, the new Legos ($200) require children (or their parents) to master a computer-programming language before they can bring the toys to life. With 700 pieces, the set should keep kids busy for days before they terrorize the household...