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What “Mimi” lacks in street credibility it makes up for in soul. One of the album’s funkier tracks is “Mine Again,” a collaboration between Carey and legendary neo-soul producer James Poysner. The track is structured around a plaintive Wurlitzer melody; a killer horn section provides harmonic counterpoint; high-hat snares keep a steady rhythm in the background, and Carey’s five-octave voice takes center stage. The lyrics are standard pop fare, but Carey tackles them with surprising conviction...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Emancipation of Mimi | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

...least he isn't at this exact moment. He's loose and happy, cracking jokes and making fun of himself and talking smack about his competitors. True, his hair is weird, and his voice sounds as if still changing even though he's 49. But he seems different. Funkier. "I feel sort of unleashed," is how he puts it. Somehow humanity's most famous nerd has become kind of cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Microsoft: Out of the X Box | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

With the most talented team yet, Brown, Cheng, and Currie decided to go for a funkier, less wholesome theme and use more difficult movements to rack up points. They bought black fishnet stockings and gloves to match short black bodysuits sewn up in the back with lime green ribbon. They combined songs like Gwen Stefani’s “What You Waiting For?” and 50 Cent’s “Candy Shop...

Author: By Kristi L. Jobson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blood, Sweat, & Fishnets | 4/14/2005 | See Source »

...liner notes, bombard people with claims that ‘in seeking to amplify the object I’m participating in the Western philosophical tradition of searching for the ding an sich,’ but I don’t think it would make the beats any funkier or the song any better,” Daniel later reiterated...

Author: By Ryan J. Kuo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Strange Sound of Music | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

...cultural history that inspire its food. Oleana need not take its décor as seriously as its mainly bespectacled Cantabrigian clientele take themselves. A bit more color adds to the stone gray and earth-toned wood interior—in the form of dishes, paintings or even funkier banquette cushions—would arouse the senses more keenly, and would turn what is already an excellent dinner into a fabulous experience...

Author: By Angela M. Salvucci, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Taste of Paradise | 11/7/2002 | See Source »

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