Word: rhymed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cheerleaders. Five booty-licious babes who will wave their pom-poms and form pretty pyramids in front of Mass Hall every hour on the hour. It might be difficult to come up with cheers that can incorporate “Living Wage Now” into a suitable rhyme scheme, but I’m confident that a few diligent Harvard brains can overcome that minor hurdle (though a “brrrrr…it’s cold in here, there must be some Toros in the atmosphere” cheer would be such a welcome touch.) Hmmm...
...Homage to Patagonia” (Yellow) offers an interesting array of Eastern instrumentation blended with complex percussive work. “His Majesty King Raam” (Yellow) opens with a bewitching keyboard melody reminiscent of a nursery rhyme. The tracks from the other EPs, while filled with an similar, more commercial assortment of gentle, sleepy beats and merry melodies, spliced with the most random of random vocal samples, fail to inspire as much enthusiasm...
...can’t get the chorus of Moochie Mack’s “Ghetto Bounce” (“If you’re ghetto and you know it bounce bounce”) out of my head. What’s up with nursery rhyme in hip-hop choruses? Nelly’s “Country Grammar (Hot Shit).” “That’s Cool,” the new single by Silkk the Shocker and Trina, reminds me of a raunchier version of Positive...
...fuckable / At least we're sated and we're tired / At least the bedroom stinks / And we know we're desired." Those lyrics also belie the new lyricism that defines this album. We see it in the repetition of "at least." More than ever before, the lyrics rhyme and revolve around choruses, and Middleton's arrangements are increasingly melodic...
...Thread, but it is supplemented with strings and piano. In "Haunt Me," Arab Strap has perhaps their most crowd-pleasing song to date, a melodic work built around a few spare lyrics: "So haunt me / Cause I know / You'll keep me / In to," a double rhyme with gory details...