Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What makes a pop song glisten with perfection? For George Gershwin, it is the simple joy of melody, wittily phrased; think of "S'Wonderful," a song whose lyrics would be silly if its music were not really so wonderful. For the Beatles, it might be mundane working-class life appreciated for all of its unique, fantastical truth--take "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," which reshapes ordinary objects into a stunning psychedelic spectacle...
...weren't surprised when Arafat balked. The Americans felt they had heard enough--in fact, more than enough--to craft a full package. Sandy Berger, the President's National Security Adviser, had heard so much repetition that he started carrying around the lyrics to I Got You Babe, the song from the movie Groundhog Day--whose hero must relive the same 24 hours over and over. (Clinton tried to explain the joke to Arafat, but it didn't translate.) It was time to force Netanyahu to focus on the security problems, the President decided. Over dinner, he pushed Netanyahu...
...many earthly possessions, Turpmtine is by far Charlie's most cherished; he sees it as a validation not of his wealth but of something deeper: "You had to be man enough to deserve a quail plantation." In fact, some of Charlie's older servants at Turpmtine remember a song about a local, long-ago legend also named Charlie Croker, and the master loves to hear them sing it. The ditty begins, "Charlie Croker was a man in full/ He had a back like a Jersey Bull...
...which featured such lyrics as "You're just a party party party boy," brought her modest renown, mostly in her native Canada and mostly (one presumes) among people there who don't read lyric sheets. After her uninspired 1992 follow-up, Now Is the Time, which included a wistful song about standing in the rain outside a Rod Stewart concert, her career stalled. But Morissette's third album, Jagged Little Pill (1995), her first for Madonna's Maverick records, was her breakthrough. On it she no longer portrayed herself as a peppy pop princess but as a brash young woman...
...Junkie the 24-year-old Morissette comes at you in a rush of words. Most of the vocals were recorded in one or two takes, which gives them a confessional immediacy. Several of the songs race along without a chorus; others are chants that repeat phrases over and over as if Morissette were trying to persuade both the listener and herself to believe in what she's singing. On the CD's first single, Thank U, Morissette pays tribute to the things that have forced her to become stronger and wiser: "Thank you India/ Thank you terror/ Thank you disillusionment...