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...flourish that is either inspired or ridiculous, a gospel choir underscores “God”’s lyrics. The listener’s world-view, more so than the song??s intrinsic merits or deficiencies, will probably determine whether or not “God” proves enjoyable...
Thompson Room, Barker Center. Oct. 25-27, from 4:00 until 5:30 p.m. Melvin Van Peebles, the maverick filmmaker best known as the writer, director and star of “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song?? will be delivering this semester’s Alain LeRoy Locke Lectures. The LeRoy lecture series is co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, the Department of African and African American Studies, and Basic Civitas Books (a division of the Perseus Books Group). They are held in honor of the Harlem Renaissance...
...video retains none of the song??s charm. It begins with stock footage of a sunset reminiscent of the visual noise run behind lyrics on karaoke machines, then cuts to a tableau of the movie’s cast belting “Seasons” to an empty auditorium...
...song??s string-laden bridge suddenly takes on a new meaning, becoming a brief interlude of metamorphosis from your average Dilbert into feminine, um, beauty. He (she) attends a place called the “Trannyshack,” sings and dances on stage, and returns home, exhausted yet happy. There is a very visible change in mood, as he feels more comfortable as a woman, and appears much more natural and at ease...
...this plotline only relates to the song??s title, without a deeper connection to the other lyrics in the song, more about a fanciful actor in some imaginary nineteenth-century play than the secret double life of a modern-day office worker. The editing is also pretty terrible; in the jump from the first shot to the second, a blanket magically disappears...