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...know of that somehow willingly tricked parents into letting their children listen to songs encouraging cocaine and crystal meth use. What could they do? “Two lines of coke I cut with Drano/And her nose starts to bleed/A most beautiful ruby red” is a great lyric. So real college be damned. I am ecstatic that the CEB finally embraced Yardfest’s permanent junior high theme. For once, I don’t want something else. —Kimberly E. Gittleson HATE YOU, THIRD EYE BLIND! I haven’t thought about Third...
...evening on a weeknight, the last thing a student like me wants is more class. And yet I felt like I should be taking notes during The Lyric Stage of Boston’s pedantic production of “Miss Witherspoon,” by Christopher F. Durang...
...background sounds like the demo tracks that come with any entry-level keyboard. “Strange Behavior” is a must-listen, if only for this reason: what other song talks about killing for insurance money? And what’s more, does it with style? The lyrical comedy of the track is well-balanced with its truly old-fashioned sound: the horns in the background call to mind black-and-white cartoons, and the vocal lines evoke the girls of the Broadway musical “Chicago.” Here, Gray’s sense...
...know is that there are just so many of us working here,” Mangu-Ward says.For some, the shift from Harvard to the New York theater scene is easier than it is for others. Laurence O’Keefe ’91, a script and lyric writer who wrote the music and lyrics to “Legally Blonde” with his wife Nell D. Benjamin ’93, says his experiences in professional theater have largely been similar to those he had at Harvard. “This [Legally Blonde] is exactly like...
...drove his records are now thoroughly unoriginal. On “Living with the Living,” Leo fails to realize that his music is at its best when the melody is powerful enough to drive the listener through the chore of listening to his dense, though exceptional, lyrics. Gone is the intelli-fun joy of “Me and Mia,” the lead track from 2004’s “Shake the Sheet.” There, within the same up-tempo pop format with which he’s now become with...