Word: plaint
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...Jacob Underwood of the boy band O-Town what has surprised him most about the music business, and he sighs, "How much of it is business and not music." It's an age-old artist's plaint, but you may wonder how much of a surprise it could have been, given how he came to be here: doing a sound check for a Manhattan party for teen magazine YM. Underwood and his crew found fame through ABC's reality series Making the Band, which showed boy-band architect Lou Pearlman holding auditions and casting O-Town from scratch. The team...
...live tracks particularly noteworthy is that his Web-only performances represent his best work to date. His live versions improve and deepen his studio originals, bringing new intimacy to his songs. His live take on his song Steal My Kisses has an inviting, front-stoop feel; the acoustic plaint Widow of a Living Man deftly treads the line between pathos and empathy. The songs take a while to download (it took this critic several hours), but they're worth the wait...
...Pleasantville's sitcom dad, now neck high in self-pity. The next tune, Shame, is in the head of a rich coot ranting about the young woman (and the gun) he needs to be happy. The third song, I'm Dead (but I Don't Know It), is the plaint of a pop singer who, after 30 years, has "nothing left to say/ But I'm gonna say it anyway." Newman dares you to wonder if he thinks he is that played-out star--and if, in the album's closing song (which has the sing-along simplicity...
...whiffs and poofs, students arrive, still quiet. Seven minutes go by-more people still. The spotlights turn on; the P.A. system warms up, and the room buzzes with ambient sound. At 10 minutes, hundreds of rustling papers and chitchat fill the room with ugly, roaring noise, overwhelming the quiet plaint of the antique benches that groan under the load of bodies. Sanders swarms; handouts and slow-movers clog the main door causing backflow into Memorial Hall. The room's air, warm and moist, smells of Chickwich. The Harvard monster-size class begins...
...Pope's ban on female priests. He plans to state his fear of a schism "in the context of not wanting the Catholic Church to undergo what has happened to the Jewish community or the Lutherans, where groups seldom talk to each other." Framed that way, the plaint almost obligates John Paul to talk back...