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...singer must expect a raucous night ahead when she gets a standing ovation just for walking onstage. k.d. lang took it all in stride, though, when she crossed the stage of Symphony Hall and caught her first glimpse of an explosively enthusiastic and entirely unseated audience. lang launched almost immediately into her first number, a bluesy Willard Robison song called "Don't Smoke in Bed," whose admonition she has called "another way of saying 'Don't dare sleep with anyone else...
Smoking is a theme that lang uses throughout her new album, Drag, to explore sex and love in a variety of contexts, including possessiveness, as in "Don't Smoke in Bed," and macho bravado, as in Steve Miller's "The Joker." In fact, if neither of these songs had audience members lusting for their Parliaments, perhaps any one of the other 10 covers on Drag, including "Smoke Dreams," "Love is Like a Cigarette," and "My Old Addiction," did the trick...
...deeper level, though, lang's concentration on the smoking metaphor highlighted the show's Flapperesque appeal, recalling a time when cigarettes were a sign of a woman's subtle sexiness and when showmanship was the thing. On "The Joker," for instance, lang infused Miller's swaggeringly boastful lyrics with an ironic new meaning, as her flirtations and suggestive smiles elicited cheers from females in the audience. In perhaps the most moving of Drag's songs, "My Old Addiction," lang's voice and the piano were in perfect harmony, and the husky delivery made every line sound reverential. This was especially...
Rocky had it. Apollo Creed and Clubber Lang didn...
...right now, fame beckons. MTV has been pushing videos by Hanson and Lang and pushing them hard. Of course, the next time we hear from any of these groups, their voices might have changed...