Word: singings
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...Obscura’s sound and style seem plucked right from Tigermilk-era Belle & Sebastian, blended with the seminal acoustic indie-pop aesthetic identified with NME’s C-86 compilation and the Sarah 100. Informing the 60s sound and its topical fixation on childish love, Camera Obscura sing slyly ironic lyrics that show abounding self-deprecation. The chorus of lilting opener “Suspended From Class” demonstrates this compromise between form and content best: “I should be suspended from my class,” ethereal lead singer Tracy-Anne Campbell sings...
...more copies, but it sold them without the cheesy remix, and Jones effectively began to seize control of her career. "Norah makes every decision now," says Blue Note president Bruce Lundvall. "From what she's wearing to the television shows she'll appear on to the songs she'll sing. She's very stubborn--in a good way. She knows what she wants...
Students, even the Muslims and Buddhists that administrators say are on campus, must attend chapel three mornings a week, but the service can feel as much like a pep rally as church. Stuffed onto risers and folding chairs in the event center, the young adults sing along, raise their arms and sway as student Christian rock and gospel groups perform. Leaning on a lectern in front of a towering video screen, campus pastor Chris Brown, in jeans, sneakers and a goatee, cuts from photos of A.P.U. students "who need our prayers" to a scene from the Jim Carrey movie Bruce...
DIED. RAY STARK, 88, powerful Hollywood producer who had long associations with Barbra Streisand and Neil Simon; in West Hollywood. For his first film, Funny Girl, based on his real-life mother-in-law, Fanny Brice, he chose Streisand over established stars after hearing her sing in a New York City nightclub. His long career included more than 125 films, among them The Goodbye Girl, Annie and Steel Magnolias...
When the average Japanese salaryman heads home each evening, you can bet the last song he wants to hear from his car radio or earphones is his company's anthem, or shaka, the corporate tune that employees are forced to sing at year-end parties and sometimes even during morning calisthenics in the factory yard. Pity, therefore, the workers of Yokohama-based Nihon Break Kogyo. After its anthem was played on a popular midnight variety show, Asahi TV's Tamori Club, so many listeners responded with requests for copies that the company decided to release the song as a single...