Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Remember to Breathe deserves to cause a sensation. "On my record is everything I listen to," the Cleveland native says, "from a little bit of gospel, a little bit of folk, to rock and R. and B. If I listened to polka, it would be on the record too." And the mix works. Her rock numbers, like the aching Keep It a Secret and the joyful Love Trap, have edge, and they have soul. At her best, she's a bit like Juliana Hatfield with a small injection...
Albums that straddle the line between rock and R. and B. sometimes fall into the cracks. But Rebekah says that possibility never entered her mind. "I don't think about, 'Oh, are black people going to listen to this? Are white people?'" she says. "I do what I do. I know who I am. I'm not trying to be someone I'm not. As long as I'm honest, hopefully it will find a market where someone will say, 'Oh, she's just being herself...
Like Rebekah, Billie Myers has wide-ranging musical tastes. "I listen to many things," says Myers. "I love Deana Carter. Alana Davis. Radiohead." Her album is filled with moderately paced, big-hearted rock. Myers has a strong, sure sense of melody, and most of her songs make a strong impression even after just the first hearing. The chorus of the lilting A Few Words Too Many dances along, gracefully pulling the listener in. The stomping Tell Me has an Indian flavor spiced with a flute and a sitar. One of the best songs, You Send Me Flying, with its acoustic...
...They really have no reason to listen to us,"Beeman said. "The general idea is to help themwork through things, because I think a lot of themstruggle in school...
...have been the first line of response for the University in this and another incident last year, and I can tell anyone who cares to listen that the students were very emotionally hurt by these police actions, which they view in racial terms. Although it may not solve the problem directly, I do believe it helps when administrators take steps to help ease their pain. As they should have, the students in the latter case heard words of remorse and encouragement from their house master and Allston Burr Senior Tutor within 36 hours of the incident, neither of whom...