Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...STARR TAUNTS CLINTON WITH HUMILIATING "SITTIN' IN A TREE" SONG ("Bill and Monica/ Sittin' in a tree/ K-I-S-S-I-N-G," Starr sang to reporters at a Washington Hilton press conference...
Then there's his lost hip-hop-influenced record. Not long after he wrote the Oscar-winning song Streets of Philadelphia, Springsteen all but completed a kind of hip-hop album. "I got together a lot of samples and loops and started to put this album together," he says. "It was fun; I enjoyed doing it, but I needed two or three more songs, and for some reason, I never got around to writing them. So I put it away. Eventually, I'm going to find a way to get this music out to people...
Springsteen turns out to be particularly interested in rap. "That desire to be heard, to have a voice that can be heard, that seems to be at the core of a lot of the music that I wrote," says Springsteen, who recently published Songs (Avon; $50), a compilation of his song lyrics. "More of those issues are dealt with in hip-hop today than in rock music. I don't know exactly why. Maybe those things are felt more in the hip-hop community, those kinds of immediate frustrations. Maybe that's the connection...
...struggles were worth it; Seal has grown as a writer and a performer. His vocals, always strong, are now more nuanced and expressive. On the low-key breakup song, No Easy Way, he is aching and vulnerable; on the expansive When a Man Is Wrong, he is charismatic and commanding. Seal can sound mythic and virile and optimistic and lost and loving all in the same song. Yet he never oversings his compositions; he feels the spirit but is never ruled...
...always really crazy and diverse. The first album has punk songs, and swing songs, and I think it was kind of the whole philosophy of the band was to just do whatever, whatever the band felt like doing, and Steve [Perry, the lead singer and songwriter] has really eclectic musical tastes; he's the kind of songwriter that wants to write in different genres. "Well, I'm going to try to write a swing song," or "I'm going to try to write a country song." So the band billed itself as this whole spectrum of music, which always threw...