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...album also incorporates slow tracks like “The Love We’re In” which balance out the fast and upbeat nature of the rest of the album. Much of the record, however, has a folky feel to it. This is especially evident on the songs written by keyboardist Kevin Hearn such as “Northern Lights,” which is largely dominated by slow meandering guitar playing, and “Jerome,” which sounds akin to an old country song. In context, these very different types of songs encapsulate Barenaked...
...most of the sprawling 22-song album it feels like the difficulty of painting a sympathetic portrait of a woman who wants herself referred to as “Love” on her gravestone has been brushed over. But there are exceptions, moments in which Byrne chooses to face Marcos’s dark side: “Order 1081,” for example, describes the declaration of martial law enacted by her husband in 1972. Here Marcos’s character sings “Got to stop all this confusion / Got to wipe away the scar...
Britney Spears may have found a new love for math and counting in her popular song “3,” but the U.S. Census Bureau has long loved counting and is doing it yet again as part of the 2010 Census’s count of Americans—and we're getting in on the action...
...whose powerful voice opens the show with a rousing, half-drunk chorus of “Vive la Compagnie.” He also briefly appears as a sage street performer singing for his supper. For its many scene transitions, the show too-frequently utilizes the Johnny Cash song “God’s Gonna Cut You Down,” a catchy, yet repetitive tune which rather abruptly jerks the listener out of eighteenth-century France and into the bluesy world of the American South...
Whoever thought that putting Miley Cyrus in the role of the headstrong rebel while still attempting to maintain a family-friendly vibe was a good idea obviously had not taken a second look at the script of “The Last Song...