Word: songfulness
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...outplay them. The four-piece group employs the kind of sweeping, heavily produced guitar lines that have made other Commonwealth bands like Muse and Bloc Party famous while capitalizing on moody lyrics and killer accents. The album cover of their eponymous first release, which is actually a collection of songs that they’ve been playing for several years now, seems to say it all—a scene derived from Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” that’s indicative of songs that are least effective on a sunny day.First...
...globalized world is something most countries have gotten used to. But classical music hadn't seemed like it would be part of that mix, if only because Western opera and the Eastern world never made a natural fit. To outsiders, the traditional Peking opera seemed as much circus as song, with extraneous acrobatics and melodies that struck European ears as atonal and arhythmic. Western opera - with its volume and bombast - fell similarly flat in the East. But since Western ways were the planet's dominant ones, it was China that was open to learning from the outside. "If a poor...
...enticing soundtrack, both in advertisements and in the games themselves. Commercials for Electronic Arts’ “Mercenaries 2: World in Flames” featured the Wojahn Brothers’ “Oh No You Didn’t!,” an original piano-driven song about the game. Its slightly amusing but ultimately embarrassing lyrics—like “Sucka tried to play me / But he never paid me / Never”—compound the obnoxious drinking-song chorus: “Oh no you didn?...
...Robotnik of “Sonic” fame sing “I am the Eggman / Goo goo g’joob!” Surely that stupid pink dinosaur in “Mario Tennis 64” would have been more likeable if her theme song was “And Your Birdo Can Sing.” The possibilities are endless, people...
...can’t control it, can’t hold it, it’s so nuts,” students sang as the song played on the loudspeaker...