Word: songfulness
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...monster’s brains are Bejar. Leaving listeners with headscratchers like “The freedom/to be alone with the freedom,” he builds on the dense mythos he’s created on Destroyer records. But somehow he makes abstraction and mystification attractive. Any song named “A Venue Called Rubella” shouldn’t be fun, but the out-of-tune saloon piano makes the ditty a rollicking, midtempo good time and the eponymous refrain catchy...
...that Kells is on board with this in light of his past urinary malfeasance. But he even seems to be enjoying himself, squeaking out a “thank you” to a woman who helps empty his “royal penis.” Sadly the song itself is mediocre, with Kells on autopilot contributing lines like “I pull up, whip low in the Phantom/With the wheels spinnin’/Ladies like that’s that shit” and a beat that sounds like a rightfully rejected outtake from...
...raps Mistah F.A.B., an Oakland-born artist whose questions challenge us as Bob Dylan’s challenged our parents. It is mere seconds before Mistah F.A.B. gleefully answers his own query: “Ghost ride it!” That, in fact, is the title of his song, a modern masterpiece that puts a hip-hop beat over the theme from “Ghostbusters.” Just like Dylan, Mistah F.A.B. is telling the world what we young people are all about: ghost riding, or the art of exiting moving vehicles and dancing beside them?...
...grieve not only the death of her husband but also the end of their happy 26-year marriage. "For almost two months, I lay on the floor at night sobbing while listening to Marty Robbins sing At the End of a Long Lonely Day," she says, referring to the song played at Jeff's funeral. But as the weeks went by, the tears subsided. "It was gradual," she says, "but at some point, I realized I was listening to the song without crying...
...Grief Recovery Handbook. "It's action that provides the opportunity for change." Limerick found hers through exercise. Instead of crying during her nightly Marty Robbins sessions, she began exercising to the music. "I was totally out of shape, and I started doing jumping jacks to the mournful song," she recalls. "It felt really good." Limerick continued to lean on her friends but found different ways to be with them. One took her shopping for a new wardrobe after Limerick lost 40 lbs. and she discovered her inner clotheshorse. Looking for new things to wear not only gave her something...