Word: songfulness
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...secret war of the $60 billion music industry, the fight over Digital Rights Management, usually known by the spine-tinglingly thrilling abbreviation DRM. What's DRM? An invisible layer of software that bodyguards a computer file and limits what you can and can't do with it. Buy a song from Apple's iTunes Media Store, for example, and you can copy the file to five computers but no more. That's because the song comes with Apple's DRM software, FairPlay, baked in, and FairPlay has its own ideas about what is and isn't fair. Most people...
...looking at visitors to the American Idol website. Over 61% of site visitors for the four weeks ending May 19, 2007 were over the age of 35, predominately female, and more likely to live in rural areas, all factors that would seem to give advantages to the old-fashioned song styling of the young Jordin Sparks. Counter that would be the fact that text message voters are more likely to be Blake Lewis' young urban peeps...
...doesn’t (sort of) rap, thank you very much. His special purview is spoken word, which is a form of song that emphasizes hypnotic speech, in this case between intermittent (sort of) rap and sparse instrumentation. It’s the perfect vehicle for West, who enjoys speaking. He wishes to use his album, “Never Forget: A Journey of Revelations,” to tell us “to be true to who [we] are.” Ever the believer in hard truths, he (sort of) raps at one point...
...second or third song, nearly everyone started dancing. The normally straight-laced Goldenberg boogied onstage with Fun Czar John T. Drake ’06, who dubbed the event, “Feel-good music for a feel-good...
...don’t know if you can play it,” he retorted. Zing! The two ended up playing the song...