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...former’s penchant for crooning), or about “musicality” by extension, because their tracks don’t seem tailor-made for anyone. “Hot In Herre” may still be their finest moment, with its awesomely self-assured drum break that, especially on the floor, feels like James Brown made into Robocop. As important as Nelly is to that tune, the song is totally autonomous—it grooves ignorant of him or anyone else, satisfied with its own mechanics...
...closest I’ve heard mainstream hip-hop get to house music, where minimal “jack tracks” work more like DJ tools than as complete pieces of music, and the human presence is fully mechanized in between pulses of the drum machine. Appropriately, Kelis sounds so bored in “Milkshake” she’s practically disembodied. It’s both mind-numbingly sterile and addictive, another fully functional product. The Neptunes don’t offer a particularly idyllic vision of pop in their assembly-line tracks, but they...
...actually sing with confidence. The influence of conventionally gifted rock bands like The Wrens and Spoon is all over the place. The band seem to genuinely want to put together an album showing their deep association with everything that stands for indie rock today. Carnival casio synth, unexpected drum machine beats, interweaving vocal lines and stupid lyrics they probably regard as esoteric make it seem they might be trying too hard to capture this sound. Take for example “Trunk of My Car,” which starts out in a ghastly a capella round with lyrics awful...
...records almost entirely on word of mouth, Virgin, the bigger corporate sister of Jones' tiny record label, Blue Note, presented her with an absurdly upbeat remix of her song Don't Know Why, which they hoped to turn into a pulsing pop-radio hit. "It was a full-on drum machine thing," says Jones. "Don't know why ... why ... why ... I didn't come ... come ... come ... Just awful. Obviously, I said, 'Are you crazy? We're not releasing that ...' I told them that I won't cram my music down anyone's throat and make something nasty...
...very long time since a Pakistani leader has praised an Indian Prime Minister so sincerely. Simultaneously, Pakistan gave a written commitment that it would "not permit any territory under [its] control to be used to support terrorism in any manner," the most definitive response to India's constant drum thump on that issue?and, presumably, a reaction to the attempts on Musharraf's life...