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...with his real-life wife, Jaya, whose impish charm once made her the girl Indian men would have loved to take home to mom; Khan with Kajol Mukherjee, whose girl-next-door persona spawned some of the biggest hits of the past decade; and Roshan with Kareena Kapoor, screen goddess of the MTV generation...
...Goddess is not without its dead-ends and irritating re-invented rocker electro-gimmickry. “Dancing in The Starlight” sounds worryingly like Toploader’s cover of “Dancing in The Moonlight.” “Lucky Day” never really gets beyond its spaghetti western premise, despite Jagger’s idiosyncratic approach to vowels, which can turn a single syllable into an entire phrase. Then again, “Everybody Getting High” would probably be unbearable in anyone else’s hands, with its lyrically...
...dance schlock, until he breaks out the attitude for the snarling chorus. But the real shockers are the songs that leave Jagger’s musical mould fairly undisturbed, but take him into entirely uncharted lyrical waters. On any previous Jagger album, a song entitled “Goddess in the Doorway” would have been a paean to sex, beautiful women and more sex. Yet the title track of the new album is a troubled plea on which Jagger sounds, of all things, vulnerable. He sings, “Demons in the bedroom/Dogs are on the roof/I...
Jagger is probably the last person anyone would look to for radical musical innovation, though Goddess is an outstanding rock album. Yet what Jagger has achieved is far more surprising and engaging. Rock stars above the age of 50 who have not made the artistic move to Vegas are few and far between, and Jagger is possibly the first to sing with authority about how a life of sex, drugs and rock and roll might feel in retrospect. And by god, he can still shake those hips and flap those lips...
...Goddess in the Doorway