Word: singer
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VR.5 is the real standout among these new series in part because it does not succumb to campiness. The show revolves around the treacherous cyber-exploits of Sydney Bloom (Lori Singer), an emotionally deadened young woman who can travel through her computer into a virtual universe in which she can tap into the minds of other people. A genius in a T shirt and Timberlands, Sydney has devised this technology herself, but she cannot control the environments she enters. As a result, she often finds herself in peril. Neverthe-less, she is unable to stay in the real world...
...trappings of the disinformation age and gone back to basics. MTV this month is launching a new series of Unplugged concerts, featuring some of the hottest acts in pop music. Among them: Grammy winner Sheryl Crow, the tart but sweet Irish pop group Cranberries, the spiritualistic rockers Live and singer-guitarist Melissa Etheridge--whose show, featuring a duet with Bruce Springsteen, airs this week. Says Crow: "Getting to perform in this format, which is taking your music and honoring the song as opposed to blowing up amps and stuff--I think that's a cool way to reach people." Adds...
...performers are growing more eclectic, the sales booming. Tony Bennett's Grammy-winning MTV Unplugged has been the No. 1 album on Billboard's jazz charts for nearly 40 weeks. Although the punk-band Nirvana became defunct after the death of lead singer Cobain, the group's posthumously released MTV Unplugged in New York has sold 3 million copies so far and remains in the Top 20 of Billboard's pop-album charts. "You can't get around the fact that some people are just put off by certain genres of music, be it jazz or grunge," says Danny Bennett...
...sure, the folks at MTV did not invent acoustic music. But by championing the sound, Unplugged has had widespread impact throughout the music industry. Radio stations have sponsored Unplugged-type concerts, and pop stars who have never been on Unplugged--soul singer Vanessa Williams, for example--have released albums that echo the show's soft-pop, pared-down sound. Andre Harrell, head of Uptown records, sees the unplugged style spreading. "Jodeci, in its upcoming album, is doing an acoustic song," he says. "Babyface did an acoustic-guitar song, When Can I See You. I'm sure some of that...
...Long Black Veil is a lovely introduction to this musical Irish institution, with a cogent, eclectic choice of material and Moloney's smart matching of song to singer. Sting leads off with the rapturous Mo Ghile Mear--Our Hero, a tribute to Bonnie Prince Charlie that makes the listener shiver, and sing along, with its manly melancholy. For three other star studs, Moloney provided tales of faithless women: the dirty dancer in Jones' giddily melodramatic version of Tennessee Waltz, the vixen who leads a beau to murder in Knopfler's The Lily of the West, the adulteress refusing to save...