Word: couplets
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...lightly swings "above" and "and love," almost gulping each first syllable. You expect her to do the same with "is far," but she smartly refuses to surrender to giddy syncopation. She gives the final words in the phrase their full traditional value. When she reaches the last couplet - "Until you will, how still my heart,/ How high the moon" - she extends the "high" into a sighing "hiiiiigh," then softens "the moon" into almost a whisper of regret. The diminuendo is a subtle reminder that, for all its drive and bounce, this is a song of longing. Until the lover returns...
...that's just a little light stretching before the onslaught of celebrity sex and violence that follows. On "Medicine Ball," he promises to rape the Pussycat Dolls and spits out a couplet of abuse for Madonna and Rihanna, while "Same Song & Dance" has him raping Lindsay Lohan in one verse and Britney Spears in the next. Suffice it to say that many more rapes occur and I stopped taking notes...
...opening couplet (“She warned him, warned him not to go / He said I, I’ve got to go”) demonstrates Morello’s complete inability to portray any depth of emotion in his music. The lyrics disappoint throughout the album and on many songs the listener is reduced to cringing in anticipation of another appallingly obvious rhyme...
...poster series, I Love Guangzhou, would never earn the local tourist board's tick of approval, but it has a streetwise, hand-drawn roughness that is far closer to the actual character of the city than official depictions are. Jon Fong's white paper-cut rendition of the infamous couplet "A hundred flowers blossoming/ A hundred viewpoints contending" is wonderfully funereal, referencing the use of the motto in Mao's Hundred Flowers campaign, during which hundreds of thousands of rightists were imprisoned, tortured or killed. Ren Qianyi's obscene eye charts - in which the letters and numbers used by opticians...
...much on the contrast between the flat whine of Gareth Campesinos! and the much sweeter voice of Aleksandra Campesinos!. Opener “Death to Los Campesinos!” (I warned you about the exclamation marks) is particularly effective as the pair alternate lines, including the delicious opening couplet, “Broken down like the war economy / Father Führer don’t be mad at me.” For all the band’s cleverness, what’s truly remarkable about “Hold on Now, Youngster...