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...skillfully that his self-congratulatory laughs and hoots seem well-deserved. The already-popular “How Low” is the standout party song on the album, its driving beats, thumping bass, and catchy chorus recreating the successful formula of his previous singles like “Get Back” and “Rollout...
...second act consists of the opera proper, the Composer’s “Ariadne auf Naxos.” The audience in the opera house implicitly becomes the audience in the house of the nobleman. The popular/classical concept of the Prologue seems to get dropped in the Opera; the harlequins stop being band members and become, somewhat disappointingly, actual harlequins (although one does wear sunglasses). The Opera itself could be substituted in any other production of “Ariadne auf Naxos” without much loss of continuity...
...This is the biggest promotional tour that we’ve done. It’s pretty full-on,” said Eve. “We get up really early in the morning, and we do the radio shows, whatever city we’re in. And then we do some TV, we do some stuff like this, and then we go, get on a plane and fly to the next city. We’ll go to a screening, do a Q&A, and then we have about three and a half, four hours off to sleep...
...times, however, complacency creeps even into Deschanel’s vocals. On “Gonna Get Along Without You Now,” Deschanel and her backup singers can’t even muster the requisite sass to convincingly pull off lyrics such as, “Uh-huh, mm-hmm / Gonna get along without you now.” Singing too sweetly, she fails to provide any edge to the track, and any possible feeling in it slips away...
...every biblical book that opens with God commanding his prophet to go marry a prostitute. But this is exactly what the prophet Hosea is told to do at the outset of his biblical career. “The Lord said to Hosea: ‘Go get yourself a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom; for the land will stray from the following of the Lord.’” Few readers of this story have ever taken it literally, especially given that in the ensuing fourteen chapters of the book, Hosea’s problematic marriage...