Word: singings
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...Aguilera's teen pop; both are gender- and age-specific modes of musical expression about sex, self-doubt and self-pity. Both tend to be pretty awful. But Moreno, like his Dirrty doppelgänger, is perceived as being a cut above his peers, mainly because he can sing and occasionally because he can think. The Deftones' self-titled fourth album has enough of the usual brain-crunching power chords, curdling screams and angst to keep the band's core audience blissfully alienated. Minerva, the first single, is a churning semiballad about a failed relationship that, with minimal allegorization, could...
This time of year in Japan, sake drinking becomes a national pursuit. As the ubiquitous cherry blossoms briefly turn the country pink, clusters of friends and relatives converge to claim squares of picnic space beneath the trees. They admire the blooms, sing songs and devour delicacies, but mostly they get uproariously drunk on cup after cup of sake...
...Birds in urban environments are increasingly being threatened with extinction because males of many species cannot sing their mating calls loud enough for females to hear them over noise from vehicular traffic
...indeed the world's sole superpower. In the wake of Fox's American Idol (which not only dominates the ratings but also put last week's No. 1 single and album on the charts), more than a dozen current or upcoming talent shows offer Americans the chance to sing, dance, joke or pose their way to stardom. We have USA network's Nashville Star (country music), CBS's Star Search (singing, comedy, dancing), ABC's All-American Girl (beauty, brains and athletics), even Animal Planet's Pet Star (self-explanatory). This week VH1 launches Born to Diva...
...book has as little point as they do. You feel kept at an arm's length either by its accuracy or its incompetence (depending on how cynical you are). Completely opposite to this, "Summer Job" pulls you in to sit around its campfire of humane values and sing songs with its delightful, full characters. Paul describes a "camp spirit" which also applies to the experience of reading the book: "There you are, in the middle of nowhere, with a group of people you like, and suddenly you lift off. Without noticing it, you're in a bubble. You become...