Word: gospelers
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...feistier. Her voice is not as bottled-water pure as it once was, but it's more real now, breaking on the high notes, letting emotion spill out. She belted out her hits, of course--I Will Always Love You, You Give Good Love--but also soared through a gospel medley that took the crowd higher than mere pop and confirmed her status as one of today's most accomplished live entertainers...
Unlike the hard guitar dabblings on past works like his paranoid cover of Mission of Burma's "That's When I Reach For My Revolver," or the insistent dance of his "James Bond" theme, Play is subtler in sound. Moby intricately combines gospel and blues samples with modern instrumentation to form a hybrid of old and new. Songs like the haunting "Why does my heart feel so bad?" and the jaunty "Run On" are distinctly modern yet also contain profound echoes of the past...
...want another wheat-research facility in this district, vote for the other guy. We don't need it, and our grandchildren will have to pay for it, and I won't do it." Voters approved and conservatives cheered, but once in office the rebels seemed to forget the gospel they ran on--forgot their promise to serve only three terms, or to fight pork-barrel spending, or to forswear the politics of redistribution, in which you take money away from the folks who didn't vote for you just to hand it over to the ones...
...concert featured a few choice tidbits from Tracks, the four-CD retrospective of previously unreleased material that Springsteen finally decided to give his fans in honor of his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year. The band sent the Berlin crowd home with a new gospel-tinged song called Land of Hopes and Dreams: "Well I will provide for you and I will stand by your side/You'll need a good companion darlin' for this part of the ride." Just before leaving for Europe, the band premiered the song in Asbury Park. "Tell all your friends...
...Brooklyn, N.Y., where Combs worships. "I told him to cut the video," Walker told TIME. "Sean has a strong spiritual sense and a lot of faith, and I told him there were things that could damage him with the church." What's more, says Walker, "Sean is working on gospel-rap songs for his next album. He wants to awaken the spiritual side in hip-hop." Rap music and church doctrines coexist uneasily, and Combs realized that the crucifixion scene could harm his album by offending the audience he was trying to capture...