Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most eagerly anticipated arrival, Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love, is also the best. Adapted from a 1955 novel by Britain's David Garnett, it is a rueful and autumnal meditation on romance as a process of teaching, almost of parenting. Five characters of widely varying ages entwine, sort themselves out and entwine in new pairings over decades. This sophisticated material is handled with cunning naivete. Lloyd Webber's score, characteristically, consists mostly of a few much repeated tunes: Love Changes Everything, Seeing Is Believing and Life Goes On, Love Goes Free. All three rank among the prettiest...
...critics are right; Love songs don't work with rap beats. They have to be sung, not spoken. Will LL ever learn? Probably not, because he has three new love-rap tracks on Walking With a Panther...
...only time the slowed-down, lovesong style achieves a bearable level on this album is when LL doesn't blabber. On "Two Different Worlds," guest vocalist Cydne Monet has a soft, gentle voice that offers the listener a brief moment of relief from LL's love raps. Thank you for saving a part of this album...
...like braggadocio rap with a twist of rap love, then Walking Like a Panther will not disappoint. However, if you want less boast and more substance, turn to Public Enemy, De La Soul or even Shinehead...
Knox Overstreet (Josh Charles) fell in love with a girl from the local public school and got beaten up by her boyfriend, although in the end he won her with poetry. Charlie Dalton took his individualism to the limits, demanded to be called "Nuanda," painted red lightening bolts for fertility on his chest and got kicked out of school for standing up for his convictions. (At the same time however, he tried to use the society to pick up women...