Word: hyped
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ladder was enough to end the weekend with a team victory. Wins at the top four flights—three of them in straight sets—proved to be the advantage against the Tigers. “I was a little worried after all the hype [Saturday],” Fast said, “about getting up the momentum...but everyone pulled themselves together and played outstanding.”With Princeton’s No. 1 out with a stomach virus, all the Tigers had to play up a spot on the ladder. Against regular...
...Cool J “Control Myself” Dir. Hype Williams Twenty-one years is a long time. Long enough for countless rap careers, trends and sounds to rise and fall. Long enough for James Todd Smith, known to the public as LL Cool J, to break out, fall off, come back, fall off again, come back again, and… fall off? Unfortunately, this seems to be the case with his newest video, “Control Myself,” featuring Jennifer Lopez (ugh) and Jermaine Dupri (double ugh). For those who haven’t heard...
...methinks thou dost protest too much!Contemporary rap music has perfected this combative sub-genre, taking it to the logical (and lucrative) extreme: artists on the same label exchange public barbs and bullets—50 Cent and the Game, anyone?—so as to keep the hype boost well within the family. Mogwai’s anti-BRIT sentiments represent a perfect intersection of the above-mentioned categories. Their own music, while more compositionally accomplished (Barry added to his anti-Blunt screed with, “I have spewed blood down dirty toilets with more talent?...
Music has seen its fair share of messianic hype recently. But while Kanye had to declare himself the second coming, British rock act Arctic Monkeys had prophets to proselytize for them, even before the release of their first album, “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not.” Incited by a handful of internet demos—and a rabid fan base—the ever-hyperbolic British music press set out to anoint them as the new kings of music. And while the excitable NME magazine finds...
...career as a principal dancer with Britain's famed Sadler's Wells Ballet was overshadowed, to her dismay, by her lead role in the 1948 ballet film The Red Shoes; in Oxford, England. Shearer, who continued to act but gave up dancing in her late 20s, said all the hype surrounding the Oscar-winning film "ruined my career...