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West was upbeat after the meeting but declined to comment about its content...
...Please Let Me Come Back to You" (1955), by Billy Waring, on "Unsung Irving Berlin." If ever a "new" Berlin song were to hit the charts, it'd be this country-style waltz. Not much content to the lyric, but a rolling melody that instantly insinuates itself in the listener's mind; I believe that's why it's called a "hook." Paging Alan Jackson...
...bridge between two cultures, providing young believers with a way of respecting inherited traditions while living in a different world. It also gives them the confidence to practice their religion more openly, unlike their parents or grandparents who thought their sojourn in Europe was temporary and so were content to express their faith in private. Their children view Europe as their home and see no reason not to worship more publicly...
...EchoStar has a cozy content provider/programming partner, something it said it was having trouble finding (for the same reasons as Vivendi was having trouble getting on cable systems) with a big library, and an extra $1.5 billion to help the war of attrition against cable. Vivendi, for only $1.5 billion (a heck of a lot less than, say, AT&T Broadband and its 18 million homes are going for these days), gets a direct pipeline into 16 million U.S. homes (6 million, if the EchoStar- DirecTV deal gets spiked) with none of the hassles of actually owning things like cables...
...While other Japanese pop divas are content to sing throwaway tunes in baby-girl tones, Utada, who says that growing up she used to go to sleep to Metallica and wake up to Pearl Jam, performs songs that draw from R. and B., rap and even rock. During an MTV Unplugged concert this summer, she surprised fans with a rendition of the Irish rock band U2's song With or Without You. Except for such occasional covers, Utada writes almost all her own material, combining light melodies and strong grooves. Her lyrics, though mostly about adolescent angst, can be intriguingly...