Word: smoothly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...This time around, Sade, 41, has other things on her mind besides music. In her songs and videos - hits like "Smooth Operator," "Your Love Is King" and "Kiss of Life" - she evokes a world of romance and longing, of continent hopping and heart breaking. Her lyrics mirror her life. Since the release of her last CD, the elegant "Love Deluxe" (1992), Sade has divorced Spanish filmmaker Carlos Scola, taken up with Jamaican record producer Bob Morgan and, with Morgan, had her first child, Ila, now 4. Says Sade: "My happiest moment was definitely when I was in the hospital holding...
...Mumba's debut CD, Gotta Tell You (Interscope), she speaks the international language of pop, offering up playful lyrics, curvaceous grooves and production as smooth as newly printed bills. One of the best tracks, Body II Body, wriggles and sweats like two teens making out in the backseat of a small car (it also features a smartly chosen sample from David Bowie's Ashes to Ashes). Mumba's music is ear candy: it crunches, it bubbles, it melts in the mouth. Her vernal personality (she co-wrote seven of the 12 songs) is what gives her CD lasting flavor...
...agreement here? The '50s were the decade of crucial change in American popular culture. Rock 'n' roll, lurid comic books, the Beats, Brando, teenage-werewolf movies and the mainstreaming of black performers signaled a transformation from old to young, smooth to raw, upper-class to underclass. But there was another '50s culture that ran parallel to this one, sometimes interacting with it but often commenting skeptically on it. One culture was hot and angry, the other cool and comic. One was the geyser, exploding with sexuality; the other the mainstream, flowing unroiled. One was radical, the other liberal...
...from secure. The band had one lengthy discussion as to how "rock" this rock'n'roll album should sound. A pop album is mixed quite differently than a rock one, the former emphasizing vocals, and the latter boosting instrumentation. We clearly weren't interested in a too-smooth, pop sound, but had to admit that the album wouldn't exactly cut it down at Club Death, either...
...albeit late at night, when my exhaustion only allowed me to register it with a dull thud of a smile. Needless to say, we still managed to make it over to the Hong Kong for a scorpion bowl to celebrate. The straws were extra long and the drink extra smooth...