Word: songfulness
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Among the counter-protesters were members of the Harvard Glee Club, who led the group in a rendition of “This Land is Your Land.” The Westboro protesters answered with their own version of the song, which replaced the lyric “This land was made for you and me” with “This land is headed straight to Hell...
...malaises facing indie pop, few can be more odious than the conceit of turning that simple thing, a song title, into a needlessly complex and irrelevant bit of intellectual posturing. Even a band like Bishop Allen, which continues their light-hearted brand of pop/rock on their third album “Grr…,” are not immune to this malady. A song about a dysfunctional relationship is titled “South China Moon,” an image that, while repeated throughout the song, does nothing to advance its meaning. To be fair, this device...
...featuring fiddles, percussion, and a full gospel choir. “I want to be your only friend,” Oldham croons, echoed by a bevy of perky female vocalists singing, “Is that scary?” By the end of the song, Oldham’s voice strains as he attempts to raise it over a rising cacophony of accordions, guitars, and additional back-up vocals, now chiming in with a shrill, “Beware...
...women were asked to participate, individually, in a five-minute "speed date" session with a male student. Before her date, each woman was given either "simulation information" (a photograph of the man and a short personal profile that included his name, age, height, hometown and favorite movie, sport, book, song, food and college class) or "surrogation information" (another undergraduate woman's enjoyment rating, on a scale of 1 to 100, of a speed date with the same man). Based on either packet of info, each participant was asked to predict how much she would enjoy her own speed date...
...simply urging a shift of values…There is no necessary connection between striving for knowledge and being a social misfit. In many cultures where intellect is valued more highly than it is here, academic achievement and social success go hand in hand.” SONG garnered national attention and then, within a few years, petered out. Perhaps the “anti-intellectual climate” was at fault. Or perhaps Harvard students simply realized that there were more effective ways of proving that nerds could attain social success than holding summits about it. Indeed...