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...pop’s new king–or at least its new prince. Critics have referred to the 18-year-old heartthrob as a possible contender for the crown, and his new album, “Exclusive,” is sure to solidify his spot as musical royalty. With incredible vocals, catchy beats, and tracks featuring some of the music industry’s finest–including T-Pain, Big Boi and Kanye West–Brown looks like he has another double-platinum record on his hands. “Exclusive” is filled with...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to a new music feature, where we look at albums from the past and re-evaluate them. Enjoy.If it weren’t so terrible, I’m not sure “Rock N Roll” would be such a great album. Which would be a strange thing to say if we were talking about anyone other than Ryan Adams.That’s because the neat trick of his career has always been doing everything at once. His first solo album “Heartbreaker” juxtaposed tears...
...that we’ve seen before. A crane shot of an elfin winter wonderland is followed by clips of elves working in Santa’s factory, followed by scenes of elves shopping in the town square—all set to the tune of sleigh bell-heavy music. This time around, though, our first view of the ideal Santa-land is bathetic—the anti-Emerald City revealed, if you will. As the Santa theme has provided the basis for so many well known Hollywood films, one would think that the focus of the director and writers...
Would that all of us English concentrators could put our degrees to the use that Alex Ross ’90 has. His new book “The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century” gives a revolutionary clarity to the history of classical music in America, and shows the world that a senior thesis on James Joyce can indeed pay real-world dividends.A wise teaching fellow once told me that the goal of analyzing literature is to do the opposite of the work itself: if the book is simple, use your argument to complicate...
...counterculture that races to embrace all things small.At the forefront of the miniaturization are “twee” kids, so called for the ironically childish British pronunciation of the word “sweet.” Twee is most commonly understood as a genre of music that encompasses college favorites like Belle and Sebastian, but it is also a lifestyle that centers itself around a return to childhood. As such, it tends not only towards adorably cliché graphic tees or knit mittens, but also towards diminution. Though the movement has existed since the early...