Word: songs
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...cons - like air-conditioning - that were then becoming standard in luxury international hotels but represented heady advances for locally financed properties. Tycoons, heirs, heiresses and film stars flocked to the Yangtze's opening. The hotel's nightclub, the Yangtze Dance Hall, became, with its big bands and song divas, one of the hot spots of the era. (See Time.com/Travel for city guides, stories and advice...
...Total Eclipse of the Heart" went to No. 1 in the U.S., U.K., Australia and Canada, and it has since made it onto uncounted best-song compilations and VH1 nostalgia-fests. It's appeared in several film and television soundtracks, including an obscenity-laced version in the movie Old School. There's even a Norwegian rock band that performs the song using kitchen appliances. And now there's this...
...with gymnasts? What sort of school allows people to fence, do backflips and play football in the same room at the same time? Did Bonnie Tyler run into the mirror to be dramatic or because she didn't know it was there? Which shirtless man/ninja/Fonzie clone/possessed choirboy is this song about? Did Bonnie Tyler not find love because her hair was so bad or because she hung out with scantily clad male dance troupes? What am I watching...
...also must raise the matter of Jones' pedigree - he is the son of David Bowie, and as a child was called Zowie Bowie - but only because there is an tantalizing connection between a song of the father and the film of the son. Bowie's Space Oddity, from 1969, takes its punning title from the Kubrick movie the year before. Released nine days before the Apollo 11 moon landing, and played by the BBC in its coverage of the event, it describes the communication of a lonely astronaut: "This is Major Tom to Ground Control... / Here am I sitting...
...cars, it is clearly having a cultural impact. It has already spawned at least one spoof ("Let's be completely honest," it opens. "Our lawyers say we have to ...") and much Internet chatter, with one wag wondering if GM was wise to adorn the spot with music from a song ("Interstate 5," by the Wedding Present) about a person who was used for a night and then abandoned. Here's hoping GM customers don't identify with the lyrics too closely...