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...About Chemistry (MCA...
...career." It wasn't that he was slacking; his 1995 album, Boombastic--filled with thudding hip-hop style grooves--sold well and won the Grammy for Best Reggae Album. But when his follow-up, the saccharine Midnite Lover, flopped, Shaggy went label-less for nearly three years until MCA signed him after he scored with the hit single Luv Me Luv Me for the How Stella Got Her Groove Back sound track...
...athletic body, the perfect human body, has formed the basis of the study of art for centuries," says Rachel Kent, a curator at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art. With "Sporting Life," the MCA's Olympic offering, Kent explores how sport has seeped into the contemporary consciousness: photos of gym junkies show how identity can be constructed, while a video of a university football team poses the question, "Are stadiums museums?" Nearby, in a room of trophies gathered from everyday Sydneysiders, sport becomes art and art becomes sport...
...third, is also called I Hope You Dance (MCA Nashville), but the songs are mostly about falling (in love) and getting up to walk off the hurt. It's pain recollected in wisdom. "If you ever loved me the way I loved you/You would be lonely too." "As much as you burned me, baby/I should be ashes by now." Womack attacks these bruised sentiments in a voice that carries odd echoes: Dolly Parton without the wink and giggle, Alison Krauss after three years of therapy. Womack can play a tune choir-girl straight or give it a twist of bluegrass...
Indeed, far from killing record companies, the Internet is spawning even more of them. "I don't believe that having 30,000 songs by any number of unknown artists is what the average consumer is excited about," says Al Teller, the former head of CBS Records and MCA Music Entertainment Group. Last year Teller founded an Internet record label based in Santa Monica, Calif., called Atomic Pop, which has released albums by Chuck D and Ice-T; they can be purchased from Atomic Pop's website in the form of a CD or a downloaded file. The musicians keep half...