Word: falsetto
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Evans was cordial to his questioner, but after the late night gadfly scurried off, several convention staffers took note of his falsetto tone, effete gestures and flower-printed shirt. So this was the culture clash they’d been hearing about...
...Babydaddy, Ana Matronic, Paddy Boom and Del Marquis--walk the line with Madonna-like confidence. Take Your Mama, their first single, is about getting Mom drunk on cheap champagne so you can come out of the closet to her while going clubbing with friends. Yet as Shears vaults his falsetto over lines like "You can stay up late 'cause baby you're a full-grown man" and into solidly gay territory, the rest of the band pillages comfortable Top 40 riffs from George Michael's Faith, Billy Joel's Piano Man and anything Elton John didn't bolt...
...know, baby/ Child, don?t you know, baby/ Don?t you know, baby/ Little girl, little girl, don?t you know/ Please listen to me, baby/ Girl, I?m in love with you so?). But those are just words: the first sound on the cut is a wild falsetto field whoop, then a plaintive ?well? exactly an octave lower - as if he were a woman in ecstasy and a man hurting from its lack. His voice rasps like a man whose heart is in his throat, and it?s just been broken...
Last year, comedian Ferrell’s Class Day speech on the announced topic of “Straight Talk” soon bloomed into an Old School laughfest, complete with an inspirational falsetto lyric performed over the strummed acoustic chords of “Dust in the Wind.” So those filing into the space between Memorial Church and Widener Library today should expect plenty of fun-poking and slang-slinging if Ali G, indeed, comes out to play...
...Come on, baaaaaaaby," proceeds to a line about how "it's undignified to sleep alone" and reaches its climax--yeah, yeah--with a grand moment when the backup singers go "bip-bip-a-bip-a-dee-dip," the horns wail away and Prince slides down the begging scale from falsetto to a great big rumbling roar. It's the best James Brown song in years...