Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Husband Skied into a Tree, so She Took His Job, Changed Her Hair and Tried to Impeach the President. This hypothetical song title may sound crass, but don't be surprised if it's the next hit for country star Brian Prout, of the band Diamond Rio, Congresswoman MARY BONO's new boyfriend. For a person with no prior political experience, Bono has generated some of D.C.'s juiciest headlines. Her latest jaw dropper comes from an interview she granted political rag TV Guide, in which she claims her late husband's addiction to prescription pain killers...
...Charlie Brown before moving to the U.S., where he became a chameleonlike star on SCTV and Saturday Night Live. He's had a respectable movie career as well, but his occasional stage work--notably in the underrated 1993 musical The Goodbye Girl--showed off the kind of effortless song-and-dance talent that in another era would have made him a huge Broadway star. "I know very few actors who started off saying 'I'm going to be a movie star' or 'I'm going to be a television star,'" says Short. "There's something about going back...
...record Mellencamp is wistful for the past but satisfied with the present. In the album's best song, Your Life Is Now, he sings, "Your father's days are lost to you/ This is your time here to do what you will do." At the end of an interview, the now comfortably mature rocker leans forward and, with a conspiratorial grin, confides, "Guys aren't worth a f___ until they...
...major-label debut, Mellow Gold (1994), Beck helped re-energize folk motifs by combining them with hip-hop beats. On his new album, Mutations (DGC), Beck has mostly abandoned hip-hop. His new sound draws largely from older, traditional styles: pure folk, blues and, on the spirited song Tropicalia, bossa nova. The energy of Beck's hip-hop/folk experimentation is missed here; this is a ruminative album that's more about quiet revelation than sonic revolution. In fact, Beck delivers almost every song in a drained drone; Mutations would have been better had it been a little livelier...
Beck's voice on this album sounds worn and weary, as if he's seen it all and seen enough. Everything seems disposed or disposable; his song titles include Cancelled Check, Lazy Flies and Dead Melodies. Yet, calmed by his voice, we lean closer, listen closely. Beck's music does not overwhelm his musings...