Word: muzakal
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...spans a couple of hundred years and loses us at about year 65, and induce Elton John to write a score that (except for one lively rock number in the second act, in which a tween-age vampire cries for ?More?) sounds instinguishable from Broadway's usual power-pop Muzak? Lestat is a predictable bore, sometimes a laughable one. Only redeeming feature: it prompts some retrospective kind thoughts for two previous vampire musicals - Jim Steinman's Dance of the Vampires and Frank Wildhorn's Dracula, both of which had more going for them...
...electric guitars, Rhee Jin Hyuk, a spiky haired drummer, mentions that he owns an MP3 player. But he claims not to have heard of rap music, or even the Beatles. The only tunes he plays are North Korea's version of pop, a chirpy, heavily synthesized sort of muzak that sounds like it was composed in the 1950s. "I want to be a musician in a military propaganda unit," he tells us. Choe, our minder, says his country is developing its own style of music. Closing his eyes and clasping his hands to his heart, he launches into a song...
Nothing demonstrates the sage wisdom of his words more than the 11th track, “Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go,” which takes this muzak-style to dizzying new heights of suckitude, completely killing the greatness of Soft Cell’s ’80s classic “Tainted Love” through their tremendously terrible reworking...
...free coffee and upbeat Muzak could not lift Naoki Ijiri from his jobless gloom. The 25-year-old polytechnic college graduate had come to the job-placement office this spring after searching fruitlessly for work for six months?long enough to convince himself that he would never find a career to match his training as an environmental-systems engineer...
Also plaguing the movie is its relentless muzak-wishing-it-was-jazz soundtrack. At the movie’s opening, I thought it was for comedic purposes—Payne used awesome over-the-top music to great comedic effect in Election—and that it would go away in a few minutes and a real score would kick in. But the music in Sideways isn’t part of a joke. It’s just bad music and there’s a lot of it in the movie. And that’s really...