Word: maverickly
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...only be used ironically, when everything has come full circle and the Spice Girls can look and sound the way Madonna did 15 years ago and still be hailed as fresh and fun. So you move on. Madonna is the head of the record label--the aptly named Maverick--that released last year's band of the moment, the electronica-charged act the Prodigy (Maverick is part of Time Warner, the company that owns TIME). It makes sense, then, that Ray of Light draws on electronica for sonic inspiration. Madonna '98 is also a new mother (her daughter Lourdes...
...sound. In fact, the best part of the song has Madonna barely singing at all. Her subtle hums add breathtaking texture to Patrick Leonard's haunting melody. Even more impressive is the opening track of Ray of Light, "Drowned World" (aka Substitute for Love). As the founder of Maverick Records, Madonna certainly has learned something from Alanis Morissette, her label's recent mega-discovery. "Drowned World" is a colorful, refreshingly down-to-earth song that sounds Tori Amos-like and could easily have come from Alanis herself. Madonna pours herself out without the least bit embarrassment: "Had so many lovers...
...guessed, there is nothing dim or self-conscious about Stupid, Stupid, Stupid. It's the second album from Black Grape, resurrected pop-maverick Shaun Ryder's comeback band. Rapper Paul "Kermit" Leveridge counterpoints Ryder's slow whines with sarcastic ribbets and deep-throated chants. These two are the front men for a liberating eclecticism that trickles down to every arrangement on the album...
...oral sex with the President. Erbland, who has known Lewinsky since they were both students at Beverly Hills High School, is part of a family well known in the entertainment business. She arrived at the courthouse accompanied by her father, Freddy DeMann, the record producer who co-founded Maverick records with Madonna. Her husband Chris Erbland is a writer for the NBC sitcom Mad About...
...first song on singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco's new album, Little Plastic Castle, starts off with a jolt. We've come to expect shocks from DiFranco--she's a rock maverick, a singer who owns her own label (Righteous Babe Records of Buffalo, New York), who refuses to sign to a major record company and who performs often raucous punk-folk songs about music-industry greed, abortion and her own bisexuality. DiFranco is so fiercely protective of her work that she was miffed when a recent cover of one of her songs, 32 Flavors, by newcomer Alana Davis added...