Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Undergraduate Council's opening meeting, elections for the student government's top four positions will take place. Political speeches will be given by experienced council members dressed in their finest semi-formal attire. They will cleverly combine references to pop culture, jokes originally written for Jay Leno and attacks on the U.C.'s dauntless persecutor (The Crimson). The winners, as always, will be those candidates whose speeches sound remotely like what normal people actually say to one another...
Ugly Kid Joe's whirlwind, MTV-induced rise to the giddy heights of fame and commercial success was based primarily on the band members' sunny Californian good looks and brand of pop metal that is accessible to even the most guitar-phobic Top-40 listener...
...latest, of course, considering his well-publicized opinion of these MTV darlings who have been for some reason so often compared to the Chili Peppers. In an interview appearing in Rolling Stone this summer, Flea dismissed UKJ as merely "copying us, copying Faith No More, copying pop-rock band...
...political stories or paint psychological portraits these days. Instead, he explores relationships almost exclusively--Gabriel dedicates the album to his parents, to his ex-wife, to his children and to former girlfriend Rosanna Arquette--and he accompanies his musings with a combination of world beat, rock and synthesizer-driven pop...
...Come Talk to Me," Upbeat "Kiss That Frog" and funky "Steam" may find commercial success, but "Fourteen Black Paintings" and "Only Us," the album's big clunkers, probably won't. Most of Us is well-crafted, but unaccessible; it doesn't fit easily into any of the categories--rock, pop and alternative--that radio stations use to pick their programming...