Word: lyricisms
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John Updike’s “lyric little bandbox of a ballpark...
...solo and the surprisingly maternal delivery from Kaplan as he compares the memory of a lost love to a “sound echoed everywhere like a buzzing amplifier burning through the air.” It’s worth noting that the liner notes sorely lack a lyric sheet; instead, we get two essays, one of which comically describes the band’s no-show at a nudist colony...
After a clip of Ted Kennedy explaining why he canceled a meeting with the political leader of the Irish Republican Army, saying he knew when "to hold 'em and when to fold 'em": "There you have it. Years of religious turmoil boiled down to a Kenny Rogers lyric." --JON STEWART
...Theater songs take the character from one emotional place to another,” she explained, as opposed to their more emotionally static pop counterparts. “A pop lyric is not written to be acted.” But with the birth of hybrid musicals attempting just that, Rybeck rejoined, “a new technique is being born right now on Broadway...
...then kicked off the rest of the set with the remark: “We’re a professional band, but sometimes we don’t act like it.” Kinkopf distinguishes himself from the myriad hip hop poseurs with the lyric: “Don’t hit the crack pipe/never ran the streets at night/soft, preppy, privileged, rich, never hit a chick and called her a bitch/ no crew, no guns and my skin is pale, I never spent the night in jail...