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...next time an "inspirational" speech appears on your movie screen and the surround-sound strings swell - don't worry. They'll make it. They'll win. They'll prevail. They have to. It's Hollywood...
...reason to have sex. On title track “Circus” she couples her search for sexual regard with her search for the spotlight. “All eyes on me, in the center of the ring,” Britney both describes and demands over the sound of whip cracks. Whether or not her self-description as a circus freak is made in jest is both unclear and beside the point. Britney will do whatever it takes to get the attention she seeks. But it is with “If U Seek Amy” that...
...Soul. Yet on his new album, “Universal Mind Control,” the aging rapper replaces those influences with newer artists like Kanye West and Chester French. Common’s entrance into a new crowd implies a baldly careerist effort to modernize his sound. The result is a resolutely generic club rap album entirely devoid of the musical experimentation and rhythmic virtuosity that defined Common’s early collaborators. Early in his career, Common gained a reputation for focusing on social and political issues instead of gangsterism and consumerist machismo. From the first verse...
...stunning, and their sheer beauty would risk descending into sentimentality were it not for the vacuum-like silence that accompanies each of his films.“I realized that once I adjusted to the silence, that the cinema had a chance to articulate in a way that sound film didn’t,” Dorsky says. The absence of any sound at all erases what seems to be, for him, an extraneous context that limits the viewer’s ability to become a part of the experience. “Spatially, you can torque the film...
...evolve from classic pop songs to deeper and more troubling terrain. It takes time to appreciate why a band would want to do something different and surprise those that fell in love with them in the first place.Los Campesinos! have taken on this challenge, trying to develop their original sound without losing their core fan base. Their new LP, “We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed,” comes just six months after their debut album, “Hold on Now, Youngster...,” and the difference between the two albums is shocking. Whereas...