Word: songfulness
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...DIFFERENT SONG Pop-soul singer Peabo Bryson found himself in a whole new world of tax debt before the IRS auctioned off his two Grammys in 2003. They went for $25,000, paying off a sliver of the $1.2 million he owed...
...Guardian, attacking the winning film (which she refers to as Trash), Hollywood types ("somewhat dim"), the awards event ("reminiscent of a small-town talent show" with "an atmosphere of insufferable self-importance") and even innocent bystanders Three 6 Mafia ("an atrocious act"), who won the Oscar for Best Song. She also lays into the Academy ("conservative heffalumps"). Yep, she used the H word. This could get ugly. Someone might call her a woozle...
...YOUR OWN THING? She was very restrained as a singer. Very stripped down, no frills. It was a challenge for me to not get overly dramatic. Because I am a little bit overly emotional. But I'm not Mariah--I'm not an overembellisher. I like the song to be basically about the lyric and the melody rather than about my musicality...
Scotland's most adorable rock collective continues to mess around with disco rhythms and glam-rock guitar licks, but the best songs on its sixth album are the ones that come on the softest. Dress Up in You is built on the same blueprint--sad piano, whispered Stuart Murdoch vocals and a gradual revelation that the song is sung from a female perspective--as many of B&S's earlier hits, while Another Sunny Day takes a pickup soccer game ("I saw you in the corner of my eye on the sidelines/ Your dark mascara bids me to historical deeds...
...preparation for a typical musical has its familiar anxieties: cutting a favorite song, replacing a dialogue scene, finding some extra business for the star. That?s nothing compared to the three-year ordeal of putting J.R.R. Tolkien?s fantasy trilogy on the Prince of Wales stage in Toronto. How to choreograph the great battles Tolkien described? To visualize the dozen realms in the great saga? To blend narrative, drama and music in a 3-1/2 hr. production, and do it all without retakes and post-production computer effects? Most daunting, how to satisfy the million of Tolkien fans whose...