Word: songfulness
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...premise alone it could be one of many such films, which seem to be a dime a dozen nowadays. But its creators hope it will stand out. “There are actually quite a lot of scripts like this that are flowing around,” says Steph Song, an actress from the movie, in a phone interview with The Crimson. Song, who plays the love interest in the film, believes that there is an abundance of such coming-of-age works in the field. But for Song, one aspect of the film’s script elevates...
...recalls Rice. “So we brought it to the practice space. I would play the piano and Christian was playing the drums with his feet and then he would play the guitar.”“We ended up coming up with songs that were new and different from anything we’d made before,” he continues. “It ended up being a way to get out of the rut.”“We recorded ‘January,’” says Rudder...
...drums advancing with hands outstretched, and we keep filling them with nitrous, asbestos, baby-bombs blasting blue,” she blabbers. Gee, Patti, we’re really getting into that poetry of yours. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is also the most recent song she covers here, and it’s indicative of her antiquated sensibilities—the kind of song that Reader’s Digest subscribers might think is “fresh” despite being 16 years...
...Moon My Man” opens, we’re introduced to a woman making her way down an airport’s moving sidewalk, having just begun to bop along to the beat of her own song. As the tempo picks up, she loses her inhibitions and breaks into a strut. The strut becomes a trot, then a gallop that she maintains only until she sees fit to fully break into dance. Her name’s Feist (Leslie Feist, to be exact); and you’re sure to fall in love with...
Sure, the title “Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin’)” is ridiculous. But that’s not really important. Neither the song nor the video works because of innovation, or technical perfection, or even grammatical propriety. They work because they channel their club-hit influences so well...