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Coming in the wake of other “intro to new ethnicities” films such as My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Chadha’s own Bend it Like Beckham, Bride distinguishes itself by introducing its viewers to Indian culture through both content and style. By employing the understated romance, unconvincing fight scenes and, of course, the ridiculous song-and-dance sequences of a Bollywood musical, Chadha introduces her viewers to both the Indian way of life and the Indian way of cinema. Essentially, Gurinder Chadha has had her cake and eaten it too; she has treated...
Then we get her strange attempt at a Queen anthem, “Hollaback Girl,” complete with a “We Will Rock You”-style stomped intro and a riff and lyric from “Another One Bites the Dust.” Then, Stefani sings lines like “Uh-huh, that’s my shit/all you girls stomp your feet like this” and my favorite line on the album, “the shit is bananas/B-A-N-A-N-A-S...
...been thinking of the things that I missed / Situations that I passed up for this /... / Make it over” he whisper-sings in the latter. In “Shooting Star,” reserved anger manifests itself through a screeching, treble-heavy and flanged guitar-line intro: ”You’ll make the scene like you always do / Going up stream down the avenue / To fuck some trophy boy that you’ll win tonight...
...starkest one-two pathos punches in music. This course reached its zenith in 1987 with their final single, the five-minute “Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me,” an epic replete with stings, wails and a two-minute intro of sparse piano under the sounds of an angry mob that stands as perhaps the saddest thing I have ever heard in my life. To be fair, this one made Rob’s list...
Though every song shares this bouncy 80’s girl-group aesthetic, several tracks stand out in the mix. The kinetic intro to “Nerves,” the album’s hardest track, betrays any claim that the album is short on flat-out rock, though the vocals still have moments breaking into heavenly high squeal, and it’s a compromise deftly handled by the band. On “Stay / Stay Away” Andersson’s voice reaches levels of emotion seen nowhere else on the album. In a second...