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...never been to India, but I desperately want to go. It’s a land of luscious pageantry, beautiful beaches, and high melodrama whose every corner hides a veritable parade of colorfully dressed dancers just waiting for the chance to burst into a larger-than-life song and dance performance in celebration of just about anything...
...ethnicities” films such as My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Chadha’s own Bend it Like Beckham, Bride distinguishes itself by introducing its viewers to Indian culture through both content and style. By employing the understated romance, unconvincing fight scenes and, of course, the ridiculous song-and-dance sequences of a Bollywood musical, Chadha introduces her viewers to both the Indian way of life and the Indian way of cinema. Essentially, Gurinder Chadha has had her cake and eaten it too; she has treated us to a movie with all the silly fun of Bollywood melodrama...
...contrast to the whizzing machinery and artifice of Digital Ash, Wide Awake features Bright Eyes’ signature folk-country ballads. Oberst cashes in on his heartland roots to deliver ten tracks of white boy blues, twanging along to song titles like “Old Soul Song” and “Another Travelin’ Song.” While the album is much more singer-songwriter oriented than Digital Ash, many of the songs include a fair amount of accompaniment from the mandolin, the harmonica or the organ. Country legend Emmylou Harris sings back-up vocals...
Working with a successful mainstream artist like Harris relaxes Oberst’s alt-country pretensions somewhat, resulting in a few unapologetically fragile songs. But these tracks are still a far cry from the music of Oh Holy Fools or even Lifted, severely lacking in the deep-blush emotional candor of his earlier work. The single off of I’m Wide Awake, “Lua,” is clearly an attempt to reintroduce that sense of sincerity. Oberst sings “Lua” without any kind of accompaniment, going for the quiet, tortured style...
Strangely after 18 tracks of “Europa Neurotisch” and “Partymädchen Gefoltert,” the album ends on “Chelsea Girls,” a low-key and echo-filled song about the sad, out of luck ladies of Chelsea. What might just seem like an odd note to go out on is just another part of the Total humor: and it’s this unique spirit, love it or hate it, that defines Stereo Total, never so much as on Do The Bambi...