Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...money is corrupting politics, the effect of advertising on the editorial content of magazines--before getting down to important issues. He thinks Subcomandante Marcos, leader of Mexico's Zapatista rebels, should be TIME's Man of the Century. On Rage's last CD, De la Rocha co-wrote a song about the Zapatistas, People of the Sun. Now, passion in his voice, he argues that Marcos is setting an example for oppressed people, proving "that there are other ways of dealing with ruling power than being passive...
...Song...
...group's debut album, Song, is appropriately titled: there is so little differentiation between the tracks that the album just appears to be one very long, 55-minute song. Still, as their name implies, the group emphasizes traditional working-class dreams, questions and fears in their admirable lyrics. This twisted dichotomy of harsh, realistic lines and dreamy background music is fascinating in the first tract, but becomes a bit monotonous after appearing incessantly throughout the album. If you're able to get past the tedious three-minute instrumental introductions of each track, powerful lines such as, "What good is ones...
Walking into the screening for Miramax's new release Music of the Heart, I actually contemplated selling the pass and booking it towards the Tower Records to buy the soundtrack instead. (I hear it's pretty good--'NSync has a song on it.) Seriously though, I really wasn't in the mood for tear-jerking scenes and cheesy life lessons. Don't I get enough of that from my parents' weekly phone calls...
...harmonies. They're not all TLC, despite their crazysexycool attitude and hip-hop flava (they describe their dance style as "hip-hop and jazz meets Tae Bo"). They are not so much the In Living Color flygirls as they are the dancers in the video for the Paula Abdul song "Cold-Hearted Snake...