Word: songfulness
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...Your life must be pretty dull in the dorm here,” continues The Modern Lovers song. Biographical similarities aside, the Lovers certainly weren’t talking about people like Katharina Cieplak-von Baldegg when they wrote that line...
...Pump It”—something that makes it feel more like a car commercial than a music video. Maybe it’s the unnervingly smooth and artificial cinematography. Maybe it’s the compulsive editing. Maybe it’s the way the song samples Dick Dale’s “Misirlou”—the “Pulp Fiction” theme—which just happened to appear in a Nissan Maxima commercial. Of course, it could also be the way Honda Civics are both conspicuously displayed...
...generally look awful—but ever jovial–in the video for Nelly’s “Grills,” my suspicions are all but confirmed: Paul Wall is none other than St. Nicholas himself. And Jermaine Dupri, the producer of this half-decent song, is one of his loyal elves. The setting of the video is pretty nondescript; it might be a recording studio, it might be a dentist’s office with slightly better lighting. Except for the grills themselves (which are indeed very shiny), everything about the video looks second-rate...
...Pain “I’m N Luv (Wit a Stripper)” Dir. Seth Levin Occasionally, a song comes along that precludes most potential mockery. What can one possibly say about “I’m N Luv (Wit a Stripper)” that it doesn’t already say itself? The title explicitly says that it’s a song about poor spelling and strippers: pointing out that it’s stupid or that it objectifies women is like pointing out that “Give Peace a Chance?...
...emphasis on student choreographed hip-hop and funk pieces infused with jazz and lyrical...was the perfect fit.”With her choreography for the 2004 Cultural Rhythms show, Cloud created an unprecedented fusion of diverse styles. “I set [my] piece to an old techno song by Prodigy and literally taught the women a traditional fan dance which I infused with hip-hop to match the fast beat of the music,” she says.Having served as co-director of Expressions since her sophomore year, Cloud’s artistic vision for the company...