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...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...
McKenna’s best known work deals with the court poets of 12th and 13th century Wales. Her translations and interpretations in The Medieval Welsh Religious Lyric have garnered much acclaim for granting English-speaking medievalists access to previously overlooked works...
Then we get her strange attempt at a Queen anthem, “Hollaback Girl,” complete with a “We Will Rock You”-style stomped intro and a riff and lyric from “Another One Bites the Dust.” Then, Stefani sings lines like “Uh-huh, that’s my shit/all you girls stomp your feet like this” and my favorite line on the album, “the shit is bananas/B-A-N-A-N-A-S...
Sullivan compares the ever-fluctuating persona, or voice, in Dylan’s lyric poetry to that of the classic poets: “Every once in a while you get a poet like a Horace, or a Shakespeare or a Dylan who’s able to play around with their persona and actually make their persona the subject of the poetry itself...
This intriguing tale manages to unite the tension of Nixon administration with a passion for the music of Beatle John Lennon in one play. At the center of it all are two FBI agents. Through Nov. 20. 7:30 p.m. Lyric Stage Company of Boston, 140 Clarendon Street. Call (617) 437-7172 for more information...