Word: mama
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...into a 1964 Chrysler with bench seats and no drink holders and one radio. And we have forgotten how we ever managed to ride in this damn thing without murdering one another. "I'm driving this car," says Papa George, "and I say we're listening to Toby Keith." Mama Laura taps her toes while Uncle John hums a Peter, Paul and Mary tune in protest. In back, half the kids sing along with the radio raucously, and the other half start shouting to drown them out. Outside the window, vast prairies and scenic prospects pass by, and dark storm...
...chords have been swapping clothes for the past 50 years--is the nexus of the avant-garde and the conventional, and on their debut, out (finally) July 27, the Scissor Sisters--Shears, Babydaddy, Ana Matronic, Paddy Boom and Del Marquis--walk the line with Madonna-like confidence. Take Your Mama, their first single, is about getting Mom drunk on cheap champagne so you can come out of the closet to her while going clubbing with friends. Yet as Shears vaults his falsetto over lines like "You can stay up late 'cause baby you're a full-grown man" and into...
...back to basics - the 12-bar blues - in the uptempo and deathlessly alluring ?What?d I Say.? There was nothing revolutionary in the lyric, except its daring to be mildly ribald (?Hey, mama, doncha treat me wrong/ Come and love your daddy all night long,? etc.). Nor was the notion of releasing a jazzy, largely instrumental number in two parts; the year before, drummer Cozy Cole enjoyed a two-sided hit with ?Topsy.? What was unusual was the four-part structure: three verses of piano, then four verses of blues patter, then the ?What?d I say? chorus, and finally...
...enduring obliviousness to it. (The Village People did not drop by the YMCA to pump iron.) Now here's a song about coming out to Mom by a group named after a lesbian sex act. You'd think only Liza Minnelli could mistake them for straight. But Take Your Mama also happens to be the most complete pop tune of the summer, with a jaunty piano melody that Elton John would kill to have written and a giddy retro chorus--"Gonna take your mama out all night/Yeah we'll show her what it's all about." Even mildly inquisitive Queer...
...this third film, overseer Chris Columbus, who directed Sorcerer and the first sequel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, has handed the reins to Alfonso Cuaron, the Mexican director best known for the too-hot-for-an-R sex comedy Y Tu Mama Tambien. Cuaron, however, also made the English-language children's film A Little Princess, so he knows his way around precocious kid actors...