Word: songfulness
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...Just as Gore & Co. are exiting the press room, Melissa Etheridge wins Best Original Song for "I Need to Wake Up" from their film. The Veep hoots, beams and nods while watching Etheridge's speech on the monitors before exiting to make way for Maestro Ennio Morricone and his translator...
...Etheridge comes back stage and fields questions about all things gay. She declines to come up with a song for Grey's Anatomy's resident gay slur hurler, Isaiah Washington, talks sweet about Ellen hosting, calls the Oscars "a gay holiday" and raves about breaking new ground by thanking and kissing her wife: "I was kissing her because that's what you do. You kiss your loved one when you win an Oscar." She also reveals where she'll keep her Oscar: "This is the only naked man that will ever be in my bedroom...
...Yeah, when [pop singer] Donovan first came to meet him in his room. I had a camera there, but Dylan said, "I don't want you to film any of this." So, I didn't. Donovan played a song, which was set to the tune of "Mr. Tambourine Man" but with different words. Dylan didn't crack. He just listened. Finally, Donovan realized that the rest of us were sitting there kind of cracking up. Later, he said [to Dylan], "Well, I heard you sing this somewhere and I thought it was a folk song so I thought the tune...
...really, there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s well suited to the astonishing costumes, extended dramatic asides, and exciting, well-oiled song and dance numbers that are the bread and butter of any Pudding production...
...little proof in the pudding. “Welcome the Night” is filled with moody, regret-stained lyrics, overpowering guitars, and generally standard-fare compositions. Though some may like the driving pace and dark pathos, there is little in the way of nuance or style. A few songs stand out, like head-bobbing “The Cheyenne Line” and “Begin Again from the Beginning,” but most of the tracks are formulaic and lack the edge the band once knew. Roe, whose writing here was influenced by a painful divorce...