Word: personae
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...current heartthrob Hrithik Roshan. Each is paired with an equally stellar actress: Bachchan with his real-life wife, Jaya, whose impish charm once made her the girl Indian men would have loved to take home to mom; Khan with Kajol Mukherjee, whose girl-next-door persona spawned some of the biggest hits of the past decade; and Roshan with Kareena Kapoor, screen goddess of the MTV generation...
...well received guest appearances on tracks by Moby and Eve) have helped to make her more comfortable with her power and appeal. It's on the album's title track that we really hear how far she's come over the last few years. Her self-assured, laid-back persona takes over the song...
...frowns. “Maybe. Anybody, what people remember is the persona, and her name. They don’t remember what she wrote. Same with Dorothy Parker: People remember these witty things she said and all the crazy things she had going on, but they don’t know that she wrote all these short stories...
...curls up in an armchair, more relaxed now, to return to the troubling topics of persona and confession. “If I only thought people could get some creepy thrill from it, that would be horrendous,” she muses, stroking her cat. “There is a message of redemption. And to not get across the message of human possibility would be bad. But if it’s not a fun story, it’s not a story worth telling...
...Wyclef Jean and Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas make appearances, while Bono contributes all of about two lines to the euphoric “Joy,” an act of ego-compression worthy of applause in itself. Despite the collaborators, however, Jagger’s inimitable persona is emblazoned across the album, in every aspect, but most particularly his literally peerless voice. Though “Joy” definitely owes something to U2’s rediscovery of feel-good anthems, Jagger’s old-school inflection and nasal twang a la Billy Corgan gives...