Word: songfulness
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When we spoke last week, she was driving from Pennsylvania to New York to compete in the New York Song Writer’s Circle (she won Grand Prize.) It’s another notch in her belt, which also includes a recent semifinalist position in Cosmopolitan magazine’s Star Launch competition and a Starbucks Emerging Artist Award...
Matthew W. Smith, the manager of Club Passim, said he sees Pauley as a dynamic musician whose song writing “keeps on getting sharper and sharper.” “She sells out Passim pretty easily,” he said, describing Pauley as a folk-based act with a rock sensibility. “She can pull it off with or without a band. When she’s solo, it’s just as powerful...
...piano segments that sit harmoniously with the jerky twangs of an electronic guitar. The rapping itself isn’t as impressive as the new overall flavor of hip-hop, and sometimes the unnecessary crudeness of the lyrics actually detracts from the freshness of the background sounds. In other songs, the lyrics are simply nothing special: for example, “Cappuccino” begins with a chord that sounds like it’s from an 8-bit video game, something one would almost never expect from a hip-hop compilation, but the fact that they repeatedly sing...
...Young men will do’t if they come to’t. By Cock, they are to blame!”—there was no time. It would have to be now. Her thoughts dissolved as she rose from the ground. She heard song wafting through the trees and did not know whether to attribute the music to passing monks or her own fevered head. She would turn back–No! It would be now ... but how could she even–when all at once Frederick threw himself from the branch...
...Lost You Anyway” is a slow reflection on what might have been done differently to mend a broken love, and every one of the seven tracks from there on out is more of this mush, right down to the album’s last song, “I’ve Got It For You Girl”: “I’ve got it in a bad way / I want to kiss your sweet face / And lay like this forever.” You can’t fault an artist for trying...