Word: lyricizing
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...band's sound wasn't quite perfect, their stage presence more than made up for it. Joel and the band improvised often, and indulged in some creative lyric making: "I go to extremes" became "I go for ice cream," and "I got a new wife, got a new life" became "I got a new wife on the cover of Life"--referring, of course, to Joel's wife, supermodel Christie Brinkley...
...ASCAP has asked us to handle product placements in popular songs. For example, a ballad called These Foolish Things is available that lists various items that ostensibly "remind me of you." For $20,000, the lyric "A tinkling piano in the next apartment" could be amended to "A tinkling Steinway . . ." and so on. (For an extra $20,000, the song's title could be changed to These Wise Investments...
...could tie my shoelaces, and to this day I don't have the stomach to watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. As a teenager I thought the Rolling Stones' Let's Spend the Night Together was cool, but it's a long way from that to this Guns N' Roses lyric: "Panties 'round your knees/ With your ass in debris/ Doin' dat grind + with a push and squeeze/ Tied up, tied down, up against the wall . . ." Or this from 2 Live Crew: "Just nibble on my d like a rat does cheese...
...cunning naivete of the score. The musical highlights are Love Changes Everything, a ditty as simple and optimistic as a nursery rhyme; Seeing Is Believing, a surge of passion as relentless as teenage infatuation; and a melody almost Viennese in its air of casual resignation, introduced to the lyric "Life goes on, love goes free." Aspects of Love may go on for years. It is, however, far from free: the top price is $55, and worth every cent...
...near his house in Giverny -- their slender, stately trunks along the banks of the Epte reflected in the water and forming an almost abstract palisade, the S shape of their bushed-out tops strung along like a festive garland -- pays homage to French rococo, Fragonard in particular. Like his lyric images of a stretch of the Seine from 1896 to 1897, the paintings show how unrelentingly conscious Monet was of the abstract basis of design, even when painting the mistiest veils of color...