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...discarded the vocal theatrics prized by Randy Jackson for solid, conventional country music written by hardened Nashville pros like Josh Kear and Hillary Lindsey. “Play On,” by contrast, features the talents of a murderer’s row of pop songwriters: Max Martin, Savan Kotecha, Chantal Kreviazuk and—now it all begins to fall into place—”American Idol” judge Kara DioGuardi. DioGuardi is partially responsible for “Mama’s Song,” a toe-curling piece of moralizing that, along...
...vernacular may not be unique to us, she says, but ours is unprecedented because of the media’s power to put words into mouths around the world. Savan finds pop in the flappers of the 1920s, “Seinfeld,” and the Super Bowl, and has veritable glossaries of pop for the Average Joe and what she calls “the community of commitment-centered words.” Two familiar Harvard personalities, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker and Cogan University Professor of the Humanities Stephen J. Greenblatt, even get mentions...
That is not to say that this book is a scholarly work. Frankly, I expected more analysis from a three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. Savan seems to have written this just for the excuse to bury herself in funny commercials and reruns of “Friends,” and the result is certainly fun but just a touch too fluffy...
Regardless, the book accomplishes what it sets out to do: Savan aims squarely to be pop lit and hits a bullseye...
Slam Dunks and No-Brainers By Leslie Savan Vintage...