Word: songfulness
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...strobe light flashing and techno music blaring, seven Harvard students dressed in skimpy clubwear raved in one corner of Lowell Dance Studio on Friday evening. Gyrating in front of the studio’s mirrored wall, the dancers were filming the club scene of a music video for the song “Predator,” a pop sensation by Peter C. Shields, Jr. ’09. For Shields, known as “Petros” in the Greek music world, this was his third music video and the second-ever to exclusively feature Harvard students...
...There is no question that Perry’s pop confection “I Kissed a Girl” was the song of the summer—love it or hate it (and many do), the Billboard Hot 100 has been tasting cherry Chapstick for 20 weeks and counting. Even New York Magazine’s imperious “Vulture” blog had to admit the song’s success, but not without threatening to move to Canada...
...Kissed a Girl,” Perry is not proud, and she’s not ashamed—she’s just there. “I kissed a girl and I liked it.” Period. And the people welcomed it. Perry performed the song on Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance,” one of summer’s highest-rated shows, and on NBC’s middle-class morning favorite “Today.” There she was, prancing in hot pants before...
...Dancing Choose,” lead vocalist Tunde Adebimpe raps, unfazed by the fast-paced, funky rhythm that lends this tune the futuristic vibe that makes itself heard on almost every song...
...contrast to the manufactured feel of “Dancing Choose,” “Love Dog” is an attempt to strip a song down to its bare essentials so that the lyrics can do the bulk of the work. The effect is unsettling, and the feeling must be mutual as Adebimpe croons, “Come lay me low and love me / This lonely little love dog / That no one knows the name of." Here, the pervading image of isolation and anonymity mirrors the underlying angst of a generation struggling to retain its individuality against...