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...increasingly important field of political entertainment surrogate videos, while Obama has owned YouTube. There was the parody (unauthorized by his campaign) of the Apple 1984 ad, which made her out to be a Big Sister--like totalitarian. Viral-video chanteuse Obama Girl expressed her love for him in song and across the back of her hot pants. And will. i.am of the Black Eyed Peas, with a host of singer and actor buddies, set an Obama speech to music in the Yes, We Can music video. Meanwhile, Clinton, after kicking off last summer with a sharp Sopranos-parody video...
...Valentine’s Day celebration of sorts, consisting of two impressive sets played to an audience filled with couples. Stephin Merritt, the band’s singer and songwriter, used the occasion to add another layer of irony to his lyrics. Though he was mostly quiet between songs in the first set, Merritt seemed to become more comfortable with stage banter in the second half of the show. “Valentine’s Day is in the middle of February so that anyone without a date will freeze to death,” he quipped...
...looking for the sugary sentimentality with which Badu sang “Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip-Hop),” you should probably steer clear of everything but the final track and lead single “Honey.” The 11-song album doesn’t give listeners anything to play while jogging on a Sunday afternoon or standing idly in a steamy shower stall. Instead, chant-like singing and eerie electronic sounds mixed with syncopated drumbeats are used to reinforce Badu’s politically charged lyrics. While the album successfully provokes...
...This song was written from the perspective of hope, and hope at the end of the day connects us all, no matter how different we are.' MARKETA IRGLOVA, musician, after winning an Academy Award for the song Falling Slowly from the movie Once. Host Jon Stewart brought her back onstage after the orchestra accidentally cut off her words following co-songwriter Glen Hansard's acceptance speech...
...their turn at the microphone. But when his turn does come, there is none of that Boston Irish joviality seen in recent days as Kennedy toured South Texas for Barack Obama. There is no roaring call to action and certainly no enthusiastic off-key, rambunctious rendition of Jalisco, a song that Kennedy has sung much to the delight of Latino audiences...