Word: singings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...opens with Franz Ferdinand’s Nick McCarthy counting in German. It is a sweetly silly love song as well as, yes, a tribute to trams: “Let us celebrate this monument of progress / We have reduced emissions by 75%.” Frontman Gruff Rhys sings, “I will design the town in the image of your face / Round the wrinkles of your eyes my footsteps you can trace,” his near-falsetto perfectly suiting both the playful lyrics and the gorgeous melody. The lyrics play on both environmentalism and the economy...
...Valerie,” the audience having risen to their feet to clap along, judge Cowell calls for the music to be stopped. “You’ve got this really wrong,” he said, feigning disappointment. “What do you sing apart from that?” In what is surely a bizarre coincidence, the show’s producers happened to have a track of the very backup song the boy wanted to sing, “Who’s Loving You” by the Jackson 5, already cued. While...
...Potts was a dentally challenged mobile phone salesman, wearing a $50 suit from the supermarket chain Tescos. Boyle, with her gold dress, black hose, white shoes and hedgerow eyebrows, was unemployed and, yes, living alone with her cat, Pebbles. Nobody, the show made clear, had any idea they could sing...
...Boyle's story is similar but with fewer light notes. Her hardscrabble town was Blackburn in Scotland. She also auditioned for a Barrymore TV show, but didn't make the cut. Yet she took singing lessons and recorded Cry Me a River for a charity CD in 1999, the same year she made a demo tape. An observant Catholic, she often sang at church and on karaoke nights. So her talent was no surprise to her neighbors. "Everyone here knew she could sing," Jackie Russell, manager of the local pub, told the AP. "We were always saying, 'You should...
...sing. So what...