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...part TV actors gyrate their way through a slick, big-budget production. Or they could travel 40 minutes out of the city to Ashford, for a performance that's a little more intimate and a lot more surreal. Both shows aim for razzle-dazzle: bright lights, flashy costumes, sassy song-and-dance numbers. But only one of them has mandatory fingerprinting at the door, beefy guards keeping watch by the wings and five-centimeter-thick bars on all the windows. And it's not the show in the West End. This week, for a few hours a night, the inmates...
Every iTunes library has a few songs that leave their owner blushing. Listening to them is musical onanism; everyone does it, but no one wants to talk about what happens when the roommate’s out of the dorm.Or do they?The Crimson spoke with four of the most accomplished artists on campus and asked them: “What’s the point of ‘pop’ music?”Fun may be a factor, but the answer isn’t pure hedonism. Pop plays a different role in the lives...
...mixes artistic production with industrial and economic production.” CONCLUSIONBut even as each side of the debate confidently asserts its arguments, there are concessions, some of them surprising, being made to the opposition.Stevens says he finds Teskey’s argument–that for every rap song added to a curriculum, a Keats poem is subtracted—“compelling.”On the other side, Teskey says he doesn’t think his colleagues choose to include pop culture in their syllabi to pander to undergraduates. “I know...
Another of “Mimi’s” standout songs, “Circles,” expands upon “Mine Again’s” soul aesthetic. The song beings with a driving electric piano riff; a pulsating bass line kicks in soon after; and a cadre of background singers harmonize nicely while Mariah tears into the lyrics like a latter-day Aretha Franklin...
...soulful as “Mine Again” and “Circles.” Unfortunately, a majority of the album’s tracks are irredeemably saccharine ballads. The worst offender in this respect is “Joy Ride,” an uninspired torch song in which Carey likens the pleasures of love to, surprise, a joy ride—not exactly the most potent of metaphors. Worse, Carey attempts to overshadow the track’s weak production with an excessively acrobatic vocal performance. At times it’s unclear whether she?...