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...ride in this damn thing without murdering one another. "I'm driving this car," says Papa George, "and I say we're listening to Toby Keith." Mama Laura taps her toes while Uncle John hums a Peter, Paul and Mary tune in protest. In back, half the kids sing along with the radio raucously, and the other half start shouting to drown them out. Outside the window, vast prairies and scenic prospects pass by, and dark storm clouds gather, unnoticed...
...single entity is borne to us through the vector of language. If we were concentrating, would we really choose to refer to the totality of mass communication as if it were guided by a single will? Perhaps current usage of “the media” (sing.) is a symptom of the trend towards nation-wide uniformity spearheaded by Michael Powell’s rampant FCC deregulation, which has stunted local programming and brought even the likes of Ted Turner to public protest...
...generic quality, both musically and thematically. Like most other country artists, McGraw sometimes writes his own songs, but unlike those others, he never records them--"because they're never any good," he says. He insists he would rather feel someone else's pain than express his own. "If you sing a song and tell somebody how you feel, that's good," says McGraw. "But if you can tell somebody how they feel, that's great. If you can get some old boy driving down the road in his pickup truck to kick the radio...
Parents who want the Gospel without the gore can try The Animated Passion, with seven sing-along hymns, a blue-eyed Jesus enduring most of his pain off-camera, and a stodgy illustrative style. The less pious will turn to a South Park DVD, The Passion of the Jew, with Cartman as a neo--Hitler youth and Gibson as a raving loony. It's funny-angry, but for the gang's sturdiest liturgical statement, go to Season 4's Do the Handicapped Go to Hell? and its sequel, Probably. --By Richard Corliss
...originals this time--that are not objectionable, just forgettable. The melodies quote her old soul faves, but they're nowhere near as hooky, while love, the central theme of her lyrics, is predictably like jet lag, a board game or a car. Mind, Body & Soul proves that Stone can sing, but for now she remains a soul singer mostly by declaration. --By Josh Tyrangiel