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...inventory is light on landscape and street photography, heavy on fashion and portraiture. But it's a highly credible assortment, brainy and fun, with samples from most of the major episodes of 20th century photography. There's a fair selection of greatest hits - Edward Steichen's 1924 portrait of Gloria Swanson behind a scrim of black lace, Dorothea Lange's inevitable Migrant Mother of 1936 - and some less familiar examples by big names. Everybody has seen Edward Weston's nudes, but probably not the one here, from 1927, which turns a pair of legs, tightly folded at the knees, into...
...John, Williams is blessed with the rarest of pop assets--a sense of humor. As a refugee from the English boy band Take That, Williams pretty much had to learn how to sing with his tongue in his cheek; and here, on the ridiculously camp Rock DJ and the Gloria Gaynor-needling Supreme, he proves that high-energy, danceable pop can be funny for the right reasons. When called upon (Better Man, The Road to Mandalay), he can also sell a song like a more traditional emoter, but what fun is that...
...while his verses, whilst not that interesting harmonically, are so full of attitude it forces you to listen. The opening track, "Let Love Be Your Energy," is a great example of this aspect of Williams' songwriting. But more impressive than the writing is Williams' diversity. "Supreme," loosely based on Gloria Gaynor's classic "I Will Survive," is a short diversion into a mainstream pop sound. The ballads "Better Man" and "If It's Hurting You" demonstrate an impressive songwriting ability and unexpected emotional intensity. And the first single, "Rock DJ," is a funky, slick track with an insistent beat that...
...Gloria Pinney, professor of classical archaeology...
Which reminds me, I have to enter annoyance-management (anger-management's little kid brother) classes soon, since I get overly upset when people don't realize songs are cover versions. It's sort of understandable when the original is obscure (Soft Cell covering Gloria Jones' "Tainted Love"), but when the original was once a fairly big song (Tiffany covering Tommy James and the Shondells' "I Think We're Alone Now," Sixpence None the Richer covering The La's' "There She Goes") it just riles me. Riles me, I tell...