Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this time to a fantastically energetic rock background. Immediately, the performers begin swirling and kicking across the stage again, until everything builds up to....nothing. The music fades away with disturbing abruptness, and the curtain falls as the dancers are still moving. Had everyone only waited until the song ended on one clear note, the resounding energy would have undoubtedly brought everyone in the theater to cheering out loud all over again...
...unique. On the title track, she dives into a campy, exhilarating discofest that has her jumping octaves, attacking wildly high passages, and having a rollicking good time showing off her new skills. Amidst all the other expressions of spirituality and profound confessions on the album, it is the one song that reminds us that Madonna is a thrilling entertainer, now wielding dazzling maturity...
Electronica is Madonna's ideal realm. Her shallow pop seemed to float without foundation in her previous albums. Every time she tried to be "innovative" or "groundbreaking," it all turned into another exercise in pleasing the Top 40 crowd. The songs on Ray of Light are built around producer William Orbit's spectacular backgrounds: synthesizers illuminate the music with pseudo-stars, comets, flowing rivers, and gurgling heavenly blips. "Sky Fits Heaven," for instance, would be a dismally boring song without the lightly pulsating background that perfectly matches the song's lyrics...
...symbol for her spiritual awakening. Every once in a while, the results are strained. "Swim" has the singer escaping to the bottom of the ocean floor, but the lyrics seem immature against the brilliantly sophisticated melody. "Mer Girl," on the other hand, closes the album with a soft, edgy song that is certainly her most personal--the album ends on the painful note "And up to the hill / I ran and I ran / I'm looking there still / And I smell her burning flesh / Her rotting bones / her decay / I ran and I ran / I'm still running today...
...Government Center T station, racing to catch a blue line train to the airport on my way home for Christmas break, when I caught these few lyrics of Poison's classic 1988 power ballad. I hadn't heard the song in at least five years, and memories of the turn of the decade came flooding back--memories of the transition from the carefree days of elementary school to the real world of junior high, from the trusty '80s to the blank slate...