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...your Internet connection remains live, so will the radio broadcast. There can be disruptions due to Net congestion, which chops up the signal like old-fashioned static, and, if you're loading another page or working on a document, the stream may pause for a few seconds. Unless you hook up quality speakers, the sound coming from your computer will be a bit tinny, but in my book that's all part of the radio experience. Sometimes links won't work, but what's inaccessible one day is up and running the next. Just when RUV was playing dreamy Icelandic...
...nothing left to give" - but he learned how to relate to audiences and "how to get the right twist" in songs. He moved into the studio, writing radio ad jingles. He learned not only how to program and arrange, but also what works on air. "If the hook's not there in seconds, you're dead," he advises...
...Last year, he proved that he's got that hook thing down. Artists who released Rein-written songs include Mandy Moore (The Way to My Heart) and Jessica Simpson (I've Got My Eyes on You). His breakout hit? The U.S. No. 1 Come On Over, Baby, written with Johan ?berg and performed by Christina Aguilera...
...Kiss that crummy era goodbye. A continent of 3 billion human beings is getting sexy and kicking the guilt. You can thank satellite television and globalization, and don't forget to say a sincere hosanna to the Internet, which not only allows wired Asians to hook up but also to find out about whatever may titillate or tantalize them. There is, it seems, a chat room for anything and everyone. Spouses seeking greater satisfaction, singles who don't want to wait until marriage, cohabitors, minority groups such as gays, lesbians, spankers, even the pimply schoolboy wondering if autoerotism is ruining...
...clarify what he means by that. There's no question that Puffy knows how to find a good hook and a captivating beat, that he has an eye for talent and a gift for promotion, that he's adept at coining catchphrases and setting trends. I know that he has a gospel album in the works. I wonder if, post-trial, he's going to try and do work that's more significant and complex than the pop gangsta stuff he's churned out in the past...