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...would concede that she is worthless as a pure vocalist, but bad vocalists can still be effective singers: witness Bob Dylan. Instead of electronically manipulating her voice à la Cher in 1998’s “Believe,” Spears’ producers have her perform an aesthetically repulsive half-talking, half-singing sound. Somewhere between a growl and a croak, her voice is entirely disjointed from her young girl image. More than anything else, her muttering style is the single most dismal artistic failure on the album...
...more raucous tracks, usually finds a guest trombonist on stage with the band. Instead, at Passim, Trapper introduced the song saying, “Nobody believes you could write a fratboy anthem on an acoustic guitar.” It worked well. Still, witnessing Trapper attempting to perform all parts of “Any Little Town”—including backup vocals—was a singular experience...
...campus life; last year, the Harvard University Dining Services instituted the Brain Break option to provide food to students late into the night. But Harvard students do not live by bread alone, and the availability of a study space is crucial to many students’ ability to perform well in their academic endeavors. The library system should adopt a similar understanding of undergraduate schedules and extend Lamont’s hours...
...doing so. Is Yale Law School suddenly finding itself unable to tell which Harvard students it wants to accept because everyone now has stellar grades? Is Harvard Medical School now admitting hacks that we shouldn’t trust to bandage a scraped knee, let alone perform open heart surgery? I think...
What makes film such a powerful medium is that it combines the randomness of a performance (the camera performs, the actors perform, the production designer performs) with the indelibility of the final print. The problem with computer technology, besides allowing these tin-britched anal retentives to bleach E.T. of any distressing theme, is that it diminishes the performative aspect of movies. In Sean Penn’s recent movie The Pledge, Robin Wright Penn was digitally given a gap tooth in post-production. Every move, every twitch, is perfectly calculated. No longer do actors interact with the special effects?...