Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shiny, Brady-ish, we-are-a-family theme was undermined in unintended and sometimes ironic ways. An opening-night song was from Rent, a musical featuring a drag queen with aids, which aggressively rejects middle-class platitudes. Jesse Jackson, who has spent three decades in public life acting almost as though he had no family, suddenly carted out some of his kids for an appearance on a Larry King show in which he praised the maternal attributes of his usually invisible wife. Gore, in his speech recalling his sister's death from lung cancer, neglected to mention that he continued...
Even the unofficial anthem of the convention, the cheery Latin dance hit Macarena, cited by Gore and mimed by Hillary Rodham Clinton and thousands of delegates, held a hidden message. The song (which is performed in the kind of lockstep the party wanted from its delegates) is an ode to seduction. "Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Macarena," goes the chorus in Spanish. Translation: "Give your body joy, Macarena...
...meaning of R.E.M.'s lyrics is usually enigmatic, and the songs are often constructed in an offbeat manner. On the new album, for example, Leave begins with an acoustic guitar dancing slowly with an accordion-like sound, before a blaring synthesizer, sounding almost like a police siren, kicks in. New Test Leper finds the band in a gentler mood. It's a soothing, meditative song that's tunefully and tastefully sweetened by a mandolin. A big rock number, Undertow, is an expansive and expressive crowd pleaser that the band played on its last concert tour...
AILING. MEL TORME, 70, velvet-voiced song stylist; after a stroke; in Los Angeles. Torme was hospitalized in guarded condition after developing pneumonia and a partially collapsed lung...
...guys in the Seattle-based rock band Pearl Jam are only in their 30s, but the group's newest album, No Code, makes it sound as if they're having a midlife crisis. The songs on the CD flail this way and that, screamingly loud on the vocal-chord-stripping song Lukin, restrained and dreamy on the ballad Off He Goes and fuzzily philosophical on the mostly laid-back number Present Tense. Sonic variety can be a good thing--the Smashing Pumpkins' brilliant double album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, also veered all over...