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...Beyonce's Crazy In Love better than Hamlet? Hamlet is long on intrigue and tension. It's also just long. Crazy in Love delivers its emotional punch in 3 min. 44 sec. Admittedly, it doesn't have much to say beyond: I'm crazy! I'm in love! But aren't those the chief sentiments of a certain indecisive prince? Shakespeare will probably outlast Beyonce, but that's hardly the point. For the next 50 years, millions of people will hear the fanfare at the top of Crazy in Love and instantly recall the summer of 2003. A simple...
...shoe-gazing white-boy rock bands from England, melancholy isn't a pose so much as a pleasant vacation from despondency. That said, this brooding, expansive, 6-min. end-of-summer anthem has a chorus with a hint of optimism--"Light up, light up, as if you have a choice/Even if you cannot hear my voice/I'll be right beside you dear"--as well as the requisite lyric about long goodbyes and a soaring vocal by singer Gary Lightbody. It's also being pushed heavily by iTunes (it's currently the site's free download of the week) and record...
Perhaps realizing that 2 1/2 hr. is a marathon length for a bedtime story, screenwriter Steve Kloves tried a few changes to make this one 15 min. shorter than the first Potter film and 25 min. shorter than the second: take the story at a sauntering pace; ditch the Quidditch, mostly; and (we'd argue with this choice) drop the novel's most arresting scene, a flashback to an earlier band of Hogwarts students on a cross-species nighttime prowl...
...every instrument on the album--wisely lets her voice dominate. The album's most hypnotic track, The Desperate Kingdom of Love, is just a slow acoustic guitar and Harvey begging her man to "Put on your spurs, swagger around/In the desperate kingdom of love." In the space of 2 min. 40 sec., she re-creates the whole ecstatic misery of obsession. It's the kind of thing Johnny Cash could have pulled off. Maybe. And wasn't he a genius...
...same group of hard-core wallowers crowding the register at record stores. That doesn't bother him much, in part because being Mr. Misery is a pretty good gig. (Quarry will probably enter in the Top 10, and his most recent solo tour sold out in--no joke--5 min.) He also knows he has done plenty to earn the title. As lead singer of the legendary '80s band the Smiths, Morrissey was quite possibly the unhappiest person in the world. What bonded him to his audience forever--and made him a prototype for Kurt Cobain--was his willingness...