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...secret of this breakup ballad from one of the better albums ever made by a teenager is revealed in tiny notation at the end of the lyric sheet: CHORUS X 2. It's the oldest trick in the pop songbook, but when Lavigne, 19, trembles through the chorus once--"You were everything, everything that I wanted/We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it"--only to emerge stronger at the end of the second go-round, millions of adolescent girls will close their eyes and know they are a few minutes closer to getting over...
...vacation from despondency. That said, this brooding, expansive, 6-min. end-of-summer anthem has a chorus with a hint of optimism--"Light up, light up, as if you have a choice/Even if you cannot hear my voice/I'll be right beside you dear"--as well as the requisite lyric about long goodbyes and a soaring vocal by singer Gary Lightbody. It's also being pushed heavily by iTunes (it's currently the site's free download of the week) and record-label boss Jimmy Iovine, who, according to one station manager, "believes it can be as big as Coldplay...
...German house label, whose artists are masters at coloring texture as well as tone. Like so much new music, it fully engages the physical field, which is exactly why you can’t listen to it the same way you used to be able to enjoy a lyric or a tune—it’s become more than that. It goes well beyond spectacle. The skeptics say you have to listen loud because “there’s nothing there,” but it’s precisely the contrary...
...People say, 'You're crazy. You should slow down,'" Behrend remarks. "But why retire? What I love more than anything is teaching and playing the violin." Legendary lyric bass Daniel Ferro, 82, concurs. "I couldn't think of retiring," says Ferro, who still has a booming voice. "I would be bored to tears. I'll probably die at the keyboard...
...while his then-wife attempted communication, a state which he renders in the song as that of a “mole, peeking his head out from under the earth.” His delivery of “International” brought the song out of its tepid, lyric-dependent existence on the album. Slowing down the pace and varying his intonation gave extra weight to the over-wrought lyrics (“our love is like the border between Greece and Albania”) leading to an epic climax fleshing out the song’s full emotional...