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...video as spectacle and not statement. While it’s possible that there is some sort of connection between its elements (perhaps it’s about the Munich Olympics?), odds are that the band just wanted a video that would make people go, “Ooh, cool,” happened to see some freeze-frame photos of athletes, and thought it would distract their fans from the fact that they sound exactly like The Bravery...
Alison Goldfrapp's new single, Ooh La La, entered the British pop chart last week at No. 4. Glamorous pictures of her - often resplendent in peacock tail, gold platform heels and nothing else - are spread across major newspapers and magazines, alongside gushing reviews for Supernature, her album released this week. So what does Britain's favorite electro-rock diva do on her day off? "I'm going to buy a wastepaper bin," says Goldfrapp, speaking by phone from her home in Bath in southwestern England. "I'm very excited about it, actually." It's a rare break from her carefully...
...incredulously as she eyes a display of fancy chocolates in yellows, greens and pinks. She samples a dark truffle that oozes ganache, and she moans with delight. Schlamadinger and her cousin Natalie Ruiz, 21, have wandered into the new Ethel's Chocolate Lounge in their Chicago neighborhood. The pair ooh and ah over the plush pink furniture and giggle about the writing on the walls ("Is it a tryst if it's with a truffle?") before settling into chairs on the brick patio with two iced mocha drinks. "Oh, my gosh," Schlamadinger sighs happily. "I love it here...
Granted, Rowling's books begin like invitations to garden-variety escapism: Ooh, Harry isn't really a poor orphan; he's actually a wealthy wizard who rides a secret train to a castle, and so on. But as they go on, you realize that while the fun stuff is pure cotton candy, the problems are very real--embarrassment, prejudice, depression, anger, poverty, death. "I was trying to subvert the genre," Rowling explains bluntly. "Harry goes off into this magical world, and is it any better than the world he's left? Only because he meets nicer people. Magic does...
...there's actually a song called Fix You), X&Y has moments where you really can lose yourself, particularly on the title track, when Martin briefly addresses life with the wife ("You and me are floating on a tidal wave") before falling into a series of high, choirboy ooh ooh oohs that speak more eloquently than anything else on the album. You can say almost anything over a power chord, and you can even say nothing. But nothing disguised as something just doesn't fly. --By Josh Tyrangiel