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...Kelley on guitar and they cut an album called "Last Splash" with a song called "Cannonball" on it. "Cannonball" took the spare instrumentation of the songs on "Pod" up-tempo, brightening it with studio effects. It felt more at home in skating rinks than in sculpture workshops. In 1993, MTV gave the "Cannonball" video heavy play on its "Alternative Nation" line-up, "Last Splash" went platinum, and nine years passed in silence...
While Hill struggled to find herself, her record label, Sony, tapped its corporate toe, waiting for new music. It can't be thrilled with what it finally got. MTV Unplugged No. 2.0, a rambling two-disc set of new material recorded last July for the MTV series, is surely the strangest second album ever released by a major pop star. For starters, it's already almost a year old, leaving fans to wonder whether the songs represent the best of what Hill can do or merely the best of what Sony has. Then there's Hill's approach. Musically...
Unplugged aired on MTV in April, and it made for compelling viewing. But it's a mess on a stereo. It's not uninteresting to listen to a star--a woman who was both audacious and vulnerable on Miseducation but always in control--lose it. When she cries out in that rangy, beautiful voice, you can't help feeling for her. But, ultimately, Unplugged's thrills are only voyeuristic. Hill seems to know this; she's so unsure about whether these songs will be meaningful to a broader audience that she sets up almost every one of them with...
Their idea that you would sacrifice your remaining dignity misses the central lesson of your presidency: dignity is overrated. Serenading us on Arsenio, talking underwear on MTV, emoting at town meetings--your entire national career was a talk show. You won two terms because you knew that in America power flows through the barrel of a video camera...
...happened at an Acquire The Fire rally. The nationwide organization stages Gospel rallies MTV style, and suddenly 17-year-old Jessica Ray, who was there with a Houston-based youth group she describes as "complacent," was on fire. Afterward she "took the challenge" and smashed all her CDs that weren't Christian. "I wanted to be putting wisdom into my ears, not trash," she says...