Word: lilt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mantra of the album is the refrain of its second track, "Good Life," where the women incant in a breezy calypso lilt, "I'm livin' a good life, no more trouble in sight." Beginning with their Calvin Coolidge duds on the CD cover, the ladies propound a hip-hop-capitalist work ethic throughout Brand New. Sure they are "Livin' good, like a Nubian Queen should," but only because, as honorary member Spinderella puts it later in the track, "I busted my ass to get to the cream...
...ness had brought to me over that short afternoon, ephemeral as they may have been, had been a soothing balm for my raw and irritated nerves. To be able to select a room in which to recline while listening to the cheep of birds carried with it the lovely lilt of liberation...
...pretty damn fine one, well cast and handsomely visualized--easily the best adaptation of a Broadway-style musical in decades. It is faithful to the sting and breadth of Tim Rice's libretto, to the ravishing Andrew Lloyd Webber score that synthesizes Broadway, opera and pop with the lilt of Latino lounge music. But this Evita is not just a long, complex music video; it works and breathes like a real movie, with characters worthy of our affection and deepest suspicions. For at the heart of the drama is Rice's fascinated ambivalence toward the prototype couple of criminal celebrity...
...best, Carpenter paints moods. What If We Went to Italy is a seductive lilt about a lazing lover's itinerary. In Ideas Are Like Stars, inspired by artist Joseph Cornell, she considers, with a child's severe wonder, the expanse of the human intellect. Ideas "teach you to fly without wires or thread/ They promise if only you'd let them." The music is a lovely droning that sounds like signals from a sympathetic galaxy. The majestic center of Carpenter's strongest album yet, the song reminds us of the universe of emotions--and ideas--that artists like Carpenter...
Arruda achieves just the right lilt in his voice and mild bulging of eyes that indicate how, hey, he's just beginning to think the whole thing a little bit strange. In a way, he takes the side of the audience, and sometimes it seems he is smiling, detached, at the whole goings-on. He's just a sensitive fellow in a band collar, after...