Word: songfulness
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...Bernstein’s “West Side Story” and reenacted his audition. As his voice began to swell, Hill suddenly stopped short of the refrain and motioned silently as if trying to grasp the words. “I completely forgot the words to the song,” he recalls. “It was pretty embarrassing. But more than embarrassing, it was a lesson that you need to know your song completely cold.” Still, despite this rather ungracious start, Hill is determined to try his luck again. And while he takes...
...Fortunately, the first single “4 Minutes” is not indicative of the album as a whole. The song, reminiscent of Timbaland’s recent Flo Rida production “Elevator” and Nelly Furtado’s (superior) “Promiscuous,” is hooky and catchy but tries too hard to be like everything else on the Billboard...
...producer Ant makes up hip-hop duo Atmosphere, is probably the only songwriter in contemporary hip-hop who writes about a woman who is “gonna pay all day but never get away from skinny white dick.” Slug is not the dawg in his songs; he’s more like the commiserating best friend who says, “I know you feel like you can’t live without him” and ends up not getting any. But as previous albums have established, and as this one will only reinforce, when...
...album, and though it’s all laughs, it’s nothing new from Bret and Jemaine. For fans of their hit TV show “Flight of the Conchords,” their eponymous debut album will likely just be sort of a season-in-song disc, but for those unfamiliar with the HBO series the laughs might be a little out of context. With the new season right around the corner, it would have been nice to see a preview of things to come, but any fan devoted enough (and there are many...
...Beatles are a good example: their record label’s maneuvering has kept the group profitable long past their final album. The Wu-Tang Clan, a group with similar franchise potential, was unable to sample “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” for their newest song due to strict copyright restrictions. So, with the help of Dhani Harrison (the late George’s son), Erykah Badu, and John Frusciante, they “interpolated” the classic Beatle’s song as “The Heart Gently Weeps?...