Word: handclaps
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...unnecessary, unbelievably boring guitar solo in the closing minutes. Bono yelps in an admirable attempt at soulfulness, but it sounds forced and disingenuous.The grinding intro of “Get On Your Boots” is catchy, but gives way to awkwardly tossed off verses within a handclap-filled massacre of Elvis Costello’s “Pump It Up,” complete with puerile rhymes like “I got a submarine, you’ve got gasoline!” With several stilted shifts in tempo and wobbly Guns n’ Roses-esque...
...confidence to explore and experiment here. It’s refreshing to hear ska, jazz, and techno influences slipping into her pop beats. In one track on the new album, “Never Gonna Happen,” Allen uses folksy strings and an accordion, along with a handclap slowly building in tempo, to drill her message of rejection into the clueless head of an unwanted suitor. At the same time, though, she cleverly unravels admissions of ways in which she’s led the poor guy on, making her repeated question “How on earth...
...their heyday. And while both voices have always been put to more instrumental use than is typical in pop music, here they have the trappings of true polish.“My Girls,” the album’s most obvious single, builds toward a sugary, handclap-heavy, altogether nonsensical chorus. Like the tracks that follow, it’s stacked high and deep with keyboard loops, distorted vocal samples, and percussion both various and eclectic. Calling it this year’s “Paper Planes” may be premature, but equipped with a song...
...Wars: "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away." Poor normal Brad is greeted with the same scatological taunt every time his name is mentioned; poor virginal Janet is "Slut!" Brad cannot slap a desk, or Frank snap his surgical gloves, without the faithful's perfectly timed handclap. The portentous pauses in Rocky cry out for rude interpolations, so that the screen actors at times seem to be responding to directions from the audience. Before Frank can introduce his assistant Magenta, the crowd bleats, "What's your favorite color?" Before he mentions another character, Columbia, comes the question...
...want looks," says one. "You have to ignore your doubts." He looks doubtful, but he spends $250 on a Tlingit basket that he can almost certainly resell for $400. Withington knocks himself out to move a large wooden cheese box for an outrageous $300, and with a final handclap -- one clever scamp applauding himself -- his performance and his 1,884th auction is over...