Word: lyricizing
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...sold more than 8 million albums; Season 4 winner Carrie Underwood, 5 million; and even Season 2 runner-up Clay Aiken, more than 4 million. Its alumni have won Grammys (Clarkson), Country Music Awards (Underwood) and even an Academy Award (Jennifer Hudson). To paraphrase Hudson's Oscar-winning lyric, Idol is telling you it is not going. And anyone in the hitmaking business should be listening to what it says about our national tastes. America does not yet know who will win American Idol. But we know - as tested, argued and ratified over five-plus seasons - what we like...
...Betty's notion of acting while singing was to break each lyric into its components, mine each phrase for the mood or situation, then act that out to the hilt, however short the phrase. Given the Johnny Mercer-Victor Schertzinger ballad "Not Mine" in her debut feature The Fleet's In, she dreamily croons the first line ("It's somebody else's moon above"), then immediately pulls a little girl's mope face for the words "Not mine." She took the same approach to acting, with multiple personalities flashing across her face with lightning speed and violence...
...star Cheikh Lô coming from speakers above the bar. In 1996 Lô hit international fame with Né La Thiass (Gone in a Flash), which warned about sudden changes of destiny. With Senegal emerging from a tumultuous election, the most keenly contested in its history, that lyric is timely again, echoing sentiment about the country's tippy democratic traditions and life under newly re-elected 80-year-old President Abdoulaye Wade...
...Common’s own love affair with hip-hop might be in the past, but for me, it’s still going strong. I’m not in agreement with Nas—hip-hop is alive and well, and I’m loving every lyric...
...Testimonial on Friendster, doing homework, and watching an exceptionally good episode of “Scrubs,” a song came on that perfectly matched J.D. and Turk’s medical and emotional struggles. I moved a window on my laptop over and typed the first lyric I had heard into LimeWire, “...took a midnight train.” Immediately, a song popped up: “Midnight Train,” by Journey. It downloaded within minutes, and soon, I was IMing my best friend Rachel, who I knew was also watching...