Word: singings
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...lyrics, full of extended metaphors and vivid imagery that catch the listener off-guard like a pit-trap in the leafy beauty of her music. She has Michael Stipe’s talent for turning unmanageable turns of phrase into effortless cadences. There are few who could sing, “Look at all the waifs of Dickensian England / Why is it their suffering is more picturesque?” without it clunking in the ear like a trash-compactor, but the line slips past barely noticed in Vega’s sleight of voice. The genius of Vega lies...
...that any attempts to popularize one’s music are to be avoided at all costs. The Descendents rather acutely capture the geist that we’re working towards here: “We never did a popular thing / Don’t even know how to sing / Couldn’t sell out a telephone booth / What I’m telling ya is the truth.” These words define—albeit in grossly generalized form—what it means to be a punk...
...friends" to field the tougher questions, allowing him to usher in the rest of the White House staff cast. It's a little like the scene in a kids' dental-hygiene film where the host says, "Now I'm going to get our old pal Mr. Floss to sing us a song about tooth decay...
Famed director Ang Lee recently went in front of the camera to sing “Victory, Illinois” for a University of Illinois ad. Roger Ebert, Robert Novak and other famous alums appear in the spot, which runs...
...music is far from irrelevant. In fact, war and music have always had an intimate bond. One of the greatest poems of all time, ?The Iliad,? is essentially an epic song about war. As the first line goes: ?Rage?Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus? son Achilles/ murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses?. America?s Civil War produced its share of popular compositions, from the war songs of the North (?The Battle Hymn of the Republic? and ?All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight?) to the fighting odes of the South (?Oh I?m a Good Old Rebel?). Civil...