Word: songfulness
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...Connubial blisters form right after the ceremony, on the newlyweds' drive from San Francisco down to a Mexican resort. Lila knows the words to every song on the radio and brays them at peak pitch. (Could Eddie not have tuned in to something more soothing, like Rush Limbaugh?) In bed, Lila's lovemaking is suspiciously professional: her moves include the Inverted Corkscrew, the Swedish helicopter and the Jackhammer, and she's given to screaming, "F--- me like a black guy, Eddie!" (On the plus side, she got his name right.) By the time Lila has disregarded Eddie's warnings about...
...playing in the Square, he performs with a 15-piece band at various venues in the area.Singing primarily in Spanish, playing a plugged-in acoustic guitar and settled in front of Hidden Sweets, Buscaglia brings humor to his performance, both through his Latin-beat music and his commentary between songs.“Thank you! Thank you!” Buscaglia yells after completing a song, arms spread wide, accepting the applause of the two dozen people he has gathered. Then he gives a shout-out to NBC’s “America’s Got Talent...
...Street Band for 13 tracks swollen with keyboards, violins, saxophones, and, of course, guitars and drums. “Magic” kicks off with one of Springsteen’s best singles in recent memory. “Radio Nowhere” is one of the catchiest songs released this year, highlighting the return of a full backing band with a blazing guitar riff, saxophone solo, and wall-of-sound production. The lyrics, which trot out old Springsteen themes like the search for identity and longing for excitement, are not particularly inspired, but there’s no denying...
...said the cast had a unique strategy for avoiding the more over-the-top aspects of the genre: studying other musicals and taking note of what not to do. “They’d be talking and speaking, and then suddenly they would just burst out into song in this fantastical kind of way,” he said. “And we really didn’t want to do that. We wanted to keep the singing an extension of the dialogue.” Throughout the interview, the 28-year-old Sturgess?...
...weird that I know more about you than I do about actual friends I hang out with in person--whom I propose we distinguish by calling "non-metafriends." In fact, I know more about you than I know about myself. I have no idea what my favorite movie or song or TV show is. Last I checked, they all involved Muppets...