Word: lyrical
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...Folk singers and rappers are weighing in, predictably, with a chorus of pro-peace songs, while at least one country crooner is primed to search and destroy. Here's a roundup of the war tunes in the air. - By Josh Tyrangiel John Mellencamp To Washington Available at: Mellencamp.com Sample lyric: "What is the thought process to take a human's life?/ What would be the reason to think that this is right?" Review: Spare folk arrangement fits the simple, evocative lyrics...
...Billy Bragg The Price of Oil Available at: Billybragg.co.uk Sample lyric: "If it's freeing the Iraqi people you're after/ Then why have we waited so long?" Review: A slow, Guthrie-esque delivery makes the history lesson palatable...
From there, the album travels nowhere if not up. Like the instrumentation, the lyrics focus on being playful—they are simple, upbeat and irreverent. Occasionally, the band does away with them entirely, as in the ambient, obviously Air-influenced “Sunshine,” whose only lyric is the song’s title. And just for kicks, they follow up with the energetic and fun “A Minha Menina,” which is sung in Portuguese...
...forum ended with Grossman-Spivak reciting an original lyric on the subject of the need and potential for change...
...MCKELLEN is sitting backstage at London's Lyric Theatre, a prestigious venue that overlooks the Windmill strip club in sex-driven Soho. Far from being perturbed by the district, or even the cockroach trap on his dressing-room floor, the star of The Lord of the Rings and The X-Men - two of Hollywood's biggest franchises - is gleeful about returning to the West End after 13 years to perform in Strindberg's The Dance of Death, which opens March 4. "I'm so excited about working in this street," he says. "The strip club is next door...