Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...atmosphere was aided by the divine food--fake bubbly in plastic stem ware, piles of strawberries, melon and grapes, divine desserts--and "Titanic" theme. While the theme song from the movie played several first-year men stood on lookout from the balcony, hands shading their eyes, swaying with the waves of dancers below...
...this is fuel for her new fire. Now the spotlight feels to her like an inferno, and her popularity looks like an abyss. "I traded fame for love," she laments on the CD's opening song, the gently cascading Drowned World/Substitute for Love. On the subdued Nothing Really Matters, she confesses "Looking at my life/It's very clear to me/I lived so selfishly...
Madonna, in the lyrics on this album, finds solace in family and philosophy. "You breathe/New life/Into my broken heart," she sings on Little Star, a swirling lullaby-like song about her daughter. On another track, the chanting Shanti/Ashtangi, Madonna sings in Sanskrit--something that, not too many years ago, would have been about as unthinkable as Hanson today singing in Serbo-Croatian. In translation, a line of Shanti/Ashtangi reads "I worship the gurus' lotus feet/ Awakening the happiness of the self revealed." Madonna in only six years has gone from sucking on feet to using them as catalysts for spiritual...
...album does have its low points, however. "Lonely Girl" doesn't maintain its momentum as well as the other tracks on the album--it's the kind of song that you almost want to sing along with and you almost want to dance to, but in the end you just don't. "I Want You," on the other hand, is strictly a slow song; but unlike "The Only Sounds," for example, its melody lacks the spirited quality that prevents most of the album's slow songs from slipping into dreamland...
...addition, 10 ends rather abruptly. The final track, "It Hurts," standing alone, is an enjoyable tune; and with reference only to the song, its ending works well. But as the finishing piece of a CD such as 10, "It Hurts" is rather problematic. Perhaps the song was chosen to conclude the album due to its subject matter. The tune refers to the pain of endings, finishing by repeating the refrain, "It hurts to say it's over/It's sad to say it's gone." But this lyrical significance is tenuous at best, and on a CD of melodies, the final...