Word: lyricism
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...Dylan once sang, "There's no success like failure," a lyric that finally makes sense when you consider the recent developments in the career of MARIAH CAREY. Dropped from the Virgin record label four months ago because of poor sales, the singer was sent away with a $28 million parting gift. Now her failure is paying off again. She has just signed with Island Def Jam Records, a division of Universal Music Group, for a three-album deal worth more than $20 million. The pact will allow Carey to have her own label and explore opportunities in film and television...
...P.O.D. even played on Saturday Night Live last month. "Kids have so many choices that when they buy something, it has to hit them on numerous levels," says Ron Shapiro, co-president of Atlantic Records, P.O.D.'s distributor. "It's about the music and the message." A typical P.O.D. lyric is pointed but tries to avoid religious cliche: "Commit my life to rebirth, well respected, 'cause that's my word/I'm sure you heard, about a new sound going around...
Franti even took a Bob Dylan turn, breaking out an acoustic guitar for a solo acoustic protest song circling around the lyric “We can bomb the world to pieces/ But we can’t bomb it into peace.” Franti makes no secret of his politics, and the audience, who outdid the music for eclecticism, was noisy in its approval...
...Winthrop JCR, Dong directs the chorus of physics students surrounding him, making sure they not only hit the right notes but also pronounce equations accurately as they sing. As Heller shows the actors their dance moves for the section scene, she proposes an arm movement to represent the lyric about vectors and wonders aloud about what precisely a vector is. (“Vectors have magnitude and direction,” giggles one of the more physics-savvy chorus members...
...experiences at Harvard, from pursuing the connections between music and physics to wrestling with procrastination. The script is also filled with real-life Harvard characters like Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi, who in the play gives lengthy and complex physics explanations in a song that ends with the lyric, “But I’m sure you won’t have any problem with that...