Word: songfulness
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...rattled the religious and artistic communities. To this day, he claims that he didn’t mean for the “The Greatest Musical” to offend anyone—he just wanted to write an Irving Berlin-esque musical comedy about the Gospels, complete with song titles like “Everything’s Coming Up Moses.”The Crimson, in its review of the show, advised those who “still take their Eucharist seriously” to avoid the show, at all costs.“It was very lighthearted...
...Footloose” is now being put on by Harvard S.T.A.G.E. This adaptation of the film had a brief stint on Broadway in the late ’90s, but faded out because there was only one good song: “Footloose.” And even though there are several reprises of the title track during the show, it just couldn’t cut loose in the box office...
...ultimate team bonding experience: initiation. The surprise initiation called for all first-year guys—roughly two-thirds of the team—to come to the front of the bus, introduce themselves, tell some little-known personal facts, and then delve into an acapella version of a song of their choosing. Horrid versions of Kenny Chesney and the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme, all the way to my own animated rendition of Marvin Gaye’s Sexual Healing, allowed guys to let down their guards and get a better feel for one another.Though these bus trips...
...litigious country, the golden age of sampling didn’t last. In 1990, Vanilla Ice had his fifteen minutes of shame trying to explain the profound difference between his “Ice Ice Baby” beat and the Queen and David Bowie song “Under Pressure,” which apparently revolved on a grace note difference so subtle that only classically-trained musicians like Mr. Ice (but not the original musicians, with whom he settled out of court) could discern it. The era of free sampling came to a halt with a legal challenge...
...Your face is pure sex when you smile,” The Modern Lovers once sang in a song called “Dance With Me.” “It’s written in huge suburban letters / Which say ‘tenderness,’ which...