Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...place of Puccini's Mimi, dying of tuberculosis, is Larson's Mimi (Daphne Rubin-Vega), a drug-addicted dancer in an S&M club who is suffering from AIDS. The Rudolfo she falls for is Roger (Adam Pascal), an HIV-positive rock singer who longs for one great song to leave behind...
...raps, conspiratorially, "Now these money-hungry bitches gettin' suspicious/ Started plottin' and plannin' on a scheme to come and twist us." Since his last album, Shakur has switched from Interscope to Death Row Records, home to controversy-courting rappers Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre, and in the song 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted Shakur engages in a boastful duet with Snoop that revels shamelessly but tellingly in their shared notoriety...
...songs on Me Against the World had a hard, gritty poetry. They felt confessional, intimate. In So Many Tears Shakur eulogized dead friends; in Can U Get Away he offered up a clever attack on domestic violence in the form of a love song. The lyrics on All Eyez on Me seem rushed, inchoate--we don't get a look at Shakur's wounded heart, just a peek at the scribblings in his notebook. Musically, he's also regressed. On the last CD the melodies were strong and tight, but while there are a few winning tunes on All Eyez...
Although most of the evening was comprised of song and dance, SAA also performed a skit spoof of the movie "Forrest Gump...
...purity, a disdain for emotional compromise, that sets her above the standard ingratiators." Patty sings the truth and serves it up raw. So it makes sense that her gorgeous, pulverizing new CD is called 'The Trouble with the Truth.' And what is the trouble? As the title song, by Gary Nicholson, tells us: 'It has ruined the taste of the sweetest lies,/ Burned through my best alibis.' "The way Loveless sings it, the truth ain't pretty, but it sounds as golden as the Gospel." says Corliss. "Producer Emory Gordy Jr. (her current husband) wraps Loveless around 10 prime laments...