Word: gloss
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...listeners of the new album get “The Carpal Tunnel of Love.” Even before you break open the shrink wrap, it feels like Fall Out Boy just isn’t trying. It’s unfortunate, since the record displays the same high-gloss, meat-and-potatoes instrumentalism of FOB’s other work. Guitarists Ryan Ross and Chad Gilbert still treat the palm mute like a magic trick, and vocalists Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz wield the same saccharine croon. Granted, the disc is stuffed with studio effects...
...fill a given space, music you could immerse yourself in or just as easily ignore. Along the way, of course, he's also been a superstar collaborator and producer, helping create career-high albums for the likes of David Bowie, Talking Heads and U2 right through to the high-gloss finish he applied to Paul Simon's angsty Surprise this year. But here and now Eno doesn't want to talk about music - he visibly slumps at the mention. "It's just not the art around which culture is centered right now," he says. Is there one? "Well...
...along with it, an important question: why the hell is the Doggfather in Chi-town? Snoop doesn’t seem to have an answer. He looks too stoned to even care. But there are some possible explanations for his Midwestern sojourn. The most obvious gloss? R. Kelly kidnapped him. He’s the one driving the Phantom around the Loop; Snoop’s eyes look more than a little glazed over, and does anyone doubt that everyone’s favorite peddler of sex weed knows how to get some roofies in his own hometown? Plus...
...GYWO. He says he will end the strip when Bush leaves office in 2008.“I figured I would just keep it up as long as he does,” he says.NO CYNICISM HERERees says the Bush Administration’s attempt to gloss over the national sense of dread in the month after Sept. 11 provided part of the impetus for writing GYWO.“Really lofty language is supposed to suck the dread out of war,” Rees says. “You start talking about these lofty ideals and it?...
...Iraqi government is making the usual polite noises about Rumsfeld's exit and the Democrats' victory being "an internal matter for the Bush Administration." But it, too, is trying to put a positive gloss on this week's events. Bassam Ridah, an advisor to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, told TIME: "We're not going to make a big deal of [Rumsfeld's departure]. We're going to hope that his replacement benefits us. We're hoping the change will mean better execution of the plan to train Iraqi security forces to take charge of the security situation...