Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This sort of conversation gets a big play in State of Grace, which is so yoked to naturalism that it denies its denizens any lyric power. The Irish used to be able to talk at least. But they mostly shout and mumble in this story of a young man (Sean Penn) who returns to the Kitchen to find himself in a fatal family dispute involving his best friend (Gary Oldman), his old girlfriend (ravishing Robin Wright) and her gang-boss brother (Ed Harris). In State of Grace, the Irish are Italians without style. As one of them says, "We drink...
...band's sound wasn't quite perfect, their stage presence more than made up for it. Joel and the band improvised often, and indulged in some creative lyric making: "I go to extremes" became "I go for ice cream," and "I got a new wife, got a new life" became "I got a new wife on the cover of Life"--referring, of course, to Joel's wife, supermodel Christie Brinkley...
...ASCAP has asked us to handle product placements in popular songs. For example, a ballad called These Foolish Things is available that lists various items that ostensibly "remind me of you." For $20,000, the lyric "A tinkling piano in the next apartment" could be amended to "A tinkling Steinway . . ." and so on. (For an extra $20,000, the song's title could be changed to These Wise Investments...
...could tie my shoelaces, and to this day I don't have the stomach to watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. As a teenager I thought the Rolling Stones' Let's Spend the Night Together was cool, but it's a long way from that to this Guns N' Roses lyric: "Panties 'round your knees/ With your ass in debris/ Doin' dat grind + with a push and squeeze/ Tied up, tied down, up against the wall . . ." Or this from 2 Live Crew: "Just nibble on my d like a rat does cheese...
...cunning naivete of the score. The musical highlights are Love Changes Everything, a ditty as simple and optimistic as a nursery rhyme; Seeing Is Believing, a surge of passion as relentless as teenage infatuation; and a melody almost Viennese in its air of casual resignation, introduced to the lyric "Life goes on, love goes free." Aspects of Love may go on for years. It is, however, far from free: the top price is $55, and worth every cent...