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...national origin is never clear, nor does her array of vowel sounds provide much of a hint. But her spiritual roots are in California. She claims to be adept at "Vibrasound, Tantric Massage, Reflexology, Chakra, Crystal Therapy, Essential Oils [her specialty], Flower Remedies, Colour Counselling-you name it." Personal growth, she assures the baffled George, "needs assistance. It needs sharing. Anything you want to share...
...appalled to hear himself telling her petty lies, mostly in an effort to keep her greed at bay. Meanwhile, she is a determined missionary as she rattles on about getting in touch with "the essential self." Confronted with one of his respectable female friends, she asks, "Have you considered Colour Counselling?" When George makes an ironic reference to "the child inside you," Katy corrects him with the scorn of a strict catechist: "Within...
...power behind the song, from Dion's new album The Colour of My Love (550 Music/Epic), is her bring-the-house-down voice, which turns an old, schmaltzy ballad into a soaring pop aria. That voice glides effortlessly from deep whispers to dead-on high notes, a sweet siren that combines force with grace. And it is not just a studio creation -- as Americans have had a chance to see. Dion has a concert special running on the Disney Channel through March and is just wrapping up her first U.S. tour as a headliner -- a 17-day, 10-city trek...
...high." The Seattle band Supersuckers has a song called Tasty Greens, which does not refer to spinach. The title of a new album by gangsta rapper Dr. Dre, The Chronic, is the name of a particularly potent strain of marijuana. More obliquely, the hard-rock band Living Colour celebrates Hemp (another of the virtually interchangeable terms for marijuana) in lyrics that read like something a junior-high burnout might carve on his desk during detention: "How carefully I've shaped you in the solitude of days./ How peaceful is my mind entwined in cord around my fingers...
FANS OFTEN PROTEST WHEN PERFORMERS move away from the sounds that made them popular. Well, TRACY CHAPMAN loyalists can't make that complaint. Even though she invited hard rockers like Vernon Reid, lead guitarist for Living Colour, to play on her latest album, Matters of the Heart, Chapman has barely moved an inch since her Grammy-winning debut four years ago. There is some good work on this new album, including Bang Bang Bang, a biting commentary on the causes of youth violence. Chapman's rich contralto remains as hauntingly effective as ever. But there is a relentless sameness about...