Word: concepting
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...like it yourself. It's not like, "Yeah, this is going to be really smart and make little kids go out and buy the record." You're trying to find a different angle. I don't always want to write about love. When we did "Lucky" for Britney, that concept came when we sat down and thought about her and her life. We thought it would be a great story to tell. " Larger than Life," from the Backstreet Boys, which we wrote with one of the guys, is a thank-you song to one of the fans, realizing that...
...Internet chat rooms. Not that the West invented sexual freedom. Medieval Asian courts were the originals for Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion. Ancient India produced the Kama Sutra, setting an all-time sexiness standard for religious texts. China's Tao, or "The Way," cemented for centuries the uniquely Chinese concept that spiritual fulfillment demands good sex - and lots of it. The I Ching named the yin and yang, that most essential description of male and female, but Taoism insisted that yin and yang existed within each person - probably mankind's earliest argument for pansexuality...
...shame that he has bravely addressed the faults of his peers while failing to identify his. True, Asians do tend to stick together and share similar tastes in music, clothes, etc. But, what group doesn't? Even so, who cares? Besides, when did this "sticking to your own" concept become an exclusively Asian phenomenon? Look at the other groups in various campuses. Honestly, don't they tend to stick with their own? Nevertheless, it's called a clique and the rest of the world, even Fong, belongs to one. It's a common occurrence, neither positive nor negative, that extends...
Psychological resiliency, a concept first popularized in the early 1970s, focuses on the positive. Its evangelists don't dwell on kids who fail under stress but on those who, against long odds, succeed. "The hallmarks of a resilient child include knowing how to solve problems or knowing that there's an adult to turn to for help," says Robert Brooks, a clinical psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. "A resilient child has some sense of mastery of his own life, and if he gets frustrated by a mistake, he still feels he can learn from the mistake...
...largely unnoticed in the U.S. and which the band itself has labeled too complex. "We were trying to make this masterpiece where there [were] just so many different sounds happening," Maida has observed. "A lot of it was over people's heads." Somewhat paradoxically, given its status as a concept-driven album, the mission behind Machines was to keep it simple, at least musically. OLP's signature hook-laden choruses are back, but this time their lyrics are a bit more mature and thoughtful. The album's 10 tracks showcase Maida's quest not only to reconcile man with machine...