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...hardest one was actually Mandarin. Japanese was easy, sort of.' AVRIL LAVIGNE, Canadian pop star, who recorded the chorus to her new single Girlfriend in English, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Mandarin...
Despite the clamps on freedom during the first years of World War II, the pockets of youthful defiance that Savage describes in Germany and occupied France showed a daring contempt for fascist authority, expressing it to the beat of American pop culture. The self-styled Swing Kids of Hamburg and the Zazous of Paris paid a heavy price in beatings and scalpings for growing their hair, wearing Zoot suits, and dirty dancing to banned jazz. "Instead of uniformity, they proclaimed difference; instead of aggression, overt sexuality," writes Savage, with as good a recipe as any for the teenage era that...
This is the new world of fairy tales: parodied, ironized, meta-fictionalized, politically adjusted and pop-culture saturated. (Yes, the original stories are still out there, but they don't have the same marketing force behind them: the Happy Meals, action figures, books, games and other ancillary-revenue projects.) All of which appeals to the grownups who chaperone the movie trips and endure the repeated DVD viewings. Old-school fairy tales, after all, are boring to us, not the kids. The Shrek movies have a nigh-scientific formula for the ratio of fart jokes to ask-your-mother jokes; Shrek...
...music.” The band has changed since its inception. The group began as a five-piece ensemble during Wallach and Drummey’s freshman year and had a different musical focus than it does today, said Wallach. “We were really influenced by [psychedelic pop group] the Zombies and were listening to a lot of Roy Orbison and British soul music. It was more retro,” Wallach said. The band also used to focus more on live shows. However, Wallach described the Harvard and Boston gigging scene as stymying for musicians...
...resulting spirit of freedom has spawned a scene in the capital called "underground" not because it's illegal, but because if you're not looped into its social networks, chances are you won't be able to find it. Bands pop up to play at outdoor stages, abandoned music schools and sweaty auditoriums, usually with little or no promotion. But the thrill of arriving at a venue and knowing you're in on one of the city's best secrets helps sustains the scene...