Word: lyricists
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...says of his insatiable ambition a few days after his Feb. 10 concert at the Roxy in Boston. At 22 years old, he’s still diseased. With three LPs and dozens of awards to his name (or rather to his apt stage alias, Eyedea) the Minnesotan lyricist has become a symbol for a burgeoning underground hip hop movement that places improvisation over production and references old school rap with a lively philosophical twist. The future, according to these hip hoppers, replaces gun waving and gold-encrusted excess with surrealist word games and existentialist crises...
...Currier House Musical Society presents this production of the classic story of a man-eating plant. Music and special effects were created by the composer and lyricist for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid. Through Nov. 16. 8 p.m. Tickets $9; $7 students and seniors; $5 Currier House residents. Currier House Fishbowl...
...Rewrites are the essence of life. No matter what you do, it’s hard to get it right the first time,” Tony Award-winning lyricist Lynn Ahrens advised an attentive crowd of about 60 thespians and musicians yesterday...
Songwriters often sprinkle their work with literary references--doesn't Nelly's Hot in Herre owe something to Goethe? But legendary lyricist BOB DYLAN may have taken more than inspiration for his aptly titled 2001 Grammy-winning album, Love and Theft, from a little-known Japanese writer named Junichi Saga. A doctor and author of 15 books, Saga told TIME he was "filled with surprise and true joy" when he learned from a reporter at that frothy Dylan fanzine, the Wall Street Journal, that some of the singer's lyrics match passages in Saga's 1989 book, Confessions...
...those that did make it through were not about sunshine and lollipops. The process of making Kid A, by Yorke's admission, was as disturbing as the material. Three hundred hours were spent on the construction of a single song, and Yorke, who had always been Radiohead's main lyricist and melody writer, seized control of some of the instrumental parts from his bandmates. He summed up the band dynamic at the time: "We're like the U.N. And I'm America...