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...billion now. That makes him the seventh richest man in China, according to the annual rankings in Forbes magazine. Though he's been a computer geek since his undergraduate days at Peking University, his boyish good looks hardly fit the profile, and as a result he's attained rock-star status in China, particularly among female Netizens (even if he is happily married and the father of three young daughters...
...people of Haiti are reminiscent of Sisyphus, who continually rolled a large rock to the top of a mountain only to helplessly watch it roll back down. How much futility can be absorbed before hope ends? We can at least be grateful for the immense generosity of the world in the face of this tragedy and the profound resilience of the Haitians' human spirit...
Wayne continues this trend of combining punk, metal, and rock influences with middle school pop lyrics throughout “Rebirth.” In “Paradice,” Wayne copies the narrative structure of Journey’s legendary “Don’t Stop Believin’,” rapping first, “she was a young girl,” and then, “he was a young boy;” and directly references Smash Mouth’s equally famous “Allstar...
Wayne’s only successful attempt at assimilating his rap background with rock music comes on “Ground Zero.” Two electric guitar lines produce a frenetic beat that is further energized by pounding drums and a screaming Wayne, who raps about the pitfalls of a bad drug trip. “How can I pray when I got nothing to kneel on?” Wayne asks, as he explains, “I’m so high that the ground is gone.” Wayne for once manages to match...
...Ground Zero” seems to prove, then, that there is some room for success in Wayne’s conception of a rock album. Indeed, the problem with “Rebirth” is not that a rock album was a bad idea, though it was ambitious and risky. Rather, this record is such a failure because Wayne is almost completely incapable of executing what might have been an interesting experiment...