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...YORK CITY: Winner: Her husband may have been an MTV darling, but Hillary Clinton brought home the hardware. Her best-selling audio recording of her book ?It Takes a Village? received a Grammy Wednesday for the best spoken-word album. Hillary beat out Garrison Keillor and Charles Kuralt. "I was very surprised, because I didn't even know that the Grammys were given to tone-deaf people like me," Mrs. Clinton said at a news conference backstage. Up next: The Hillary World Tour...
...harder to tell apart. Only Mel B., whose voice has a bit of grit, stands out; the rest have bright, slight voices, more light than heat, more Wilson Phillips than En Vogue. It's also disconcerting that the Girls' accents disappear when they sing, only to reappear during spoken-word segments, like Eliza Doolittle forgetting her manners. It's as if they are so closely copying American pop music that their own distinctive qualities are erased. In fact, most of the songs on Spice sound like '90s hip-hop updates of funk songs from the '70s. Listen to the surging...
Other literary celebrities, like WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS (Naked Lunch), are devoted to rock. He masterminded The "Priest" They Called Him, a spoken-word album with music by KURT COBAIN...
...bands. The set, featuring songs from her latest CD, Rising, was deliberately abrasive, her wailing voice (which evoked Eastern devotional music) propelled by Ima's churning, mid-tempo guitar rock (Lennon's guitar work was blunt and unobtrusive). Ono's best moments came on Will I--a mournfully pretty spoken-word piece--and on Rising's anthemic title song. For the latter, she was joined by the Japanese-American hip-hop duo Cibo Matto, who added some energy and emotional focus (the pair also appear on an enhanced CD of Rising featuring remixes of Ono's songs as well...
Pearl Jam hosted its own radio show on December 9th, playing disc jockey for stations across the country. Before the motley of live and canned music, spoken-word recordings and commentary got under way, Eddie Vedder, the group's front man opened the underground broadcast on a mysteriously political note. "We've noticed that our society here in America is opening up their homes to some folks...with...potentially dangerous attitudes...Blatant untruths [are] treated like the gospel. We're just doing our little bit...to remind a few of you out there that you are not alone in your...