Word: mellows
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...said you’d never take a side / Papa / I’m too young to die / They’re never taking me / They’re never taking me alive.” “Broken Mirror” and the songs that follow mellow out. Rage exhausted, only cynicism remains. The chorus likens current disillusionment to Hemingway and the Lost Generation’s loss of faith, “Inside tolls the bell / Outside all is well.” The record ends, though, on a lighter note. The final song...
...waded into the whirlpool of freshman ambition, but emerged unsatisfied. The freshmen would most likely mellow. I wanted to talk to an upperclassman, someone who had had time to be disillusioned—and who still thought he could be president. Caleb L. Weatherl ’10 had been president of the Harvard Republican Club as a sophomore. He wrote occasional political pieces as a member of The Crimson’s editorial board. I had never met him, but I kept hearing his name, prefaced, as if by Homeric epithet, by “that guy who wants...
...Evergreen.” While these songs still have the folksy, raspy-voiced ballad feel that Adams effortlessly maintains, they tend to focus more on the hook and groove. “Evergreen” is a happy tune with snappy acoustic phrases and a mellow that aren’t a far cry from (I hate to say it) Jack Johnson. Another sound new to Adams is the soulful, gospel-tinged “Let Us Down Easy,” which offers a taste of early Stax, a hearty gospel chorus, and Adams’ signature twang. Adams...
...showerheads and toilets in dormitories. A helpful illustration adjacent to the toilet neatly summarizes the features of the new “dual-flush” technology—a more sophisticated, and more hygienic, version of an old scatological rhyme that recommends to “let it mellow...
...replies with a rasp: “You’re a drunk, you’re a stoner, you never came back.” Yet Williams’ penchant for composing meaningful and often melancholic music is in no way diminished. She sings tenderly on slower, more mellow songs like “Knowing” and “Plan to Marry,” demonstrating her talent to the fullest extent. The latter, a charming and stripped-down acoustic song, would be more appropriate in a coffeehouse in mid-winter than on this otherwise orchestrated country...