Word: songfulness
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...course, those parents might not want to let their 6-year-olds watch a show about a teen pop star. But Cyrus has based her career--and Disney its franchise--on offering a safe harbor. The squeaky-clean Hannah promises, as the theme song goes, "the best of both worlds": a big-girl pop-star story scrubbed of the scary Britneyness. When parents see Cyrus' bedroom eyes or Internet pictures of her flashing her bra, they feel--just as when Zoey 101's 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears got pregnant--baited and switched...
...ready to watch R&B singer J. Holiday close the show. I catch a glimpse of her later. standing on a chair, digital camera outstretched like a periscope. “I’m trying to get close to him. He’s singing my favorite song. It’s my ring tone,” she says. After the finale, Alford breezes through the crowd of exiting guests. She’s prevented from answering my probing questions by the seemingly innumerable flow of friends who want her face in their pictures, so we arrange...
...Madge and her collaborators each bent on making their own influence known. This is probably why the majority of the record’s tracks range from four and a half to six minutes in length, becoming not radio-ready singles but explorations of musical themes. Every time a song is about to exhaust a sound, it moves on to something completely unexpected, particularly on “Incredible,” the juicy center of “Hard Candy...
...never will be.” It’s a cheeky kiss-off to anyone who thinks the Queen of Pop is ready to relinquish her crown. She even goes after her co-writer’s sound on “Miles Away,” the song that chronicles a couple’s attempt to stay together even with an ocean between them. With its dreamy chorus and hooks aplenty, it’s an overt attempt to mimic JT’s “What Comes Around…Goes Around...
...dimensional atmosphere, interrupted by deeper, more mechanical seizures, and the words, “I saw a savior / A savior come my way / I thought I’d see him / In the cold light of day.” Voices join in the background, building up throughout the song, sounding soft against the piston-pump that composes the spine of the track. Suddenly, the voices are gone. The beats duplicate themselves and pour in and out of one another, vibrating more eerily as extraterrestrial organs come alive, wheezing over the surge of it all. This...