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...Star Fading to Black? I loved Josh Tyrangiel's article on Amy Winehouse, "Trouble Woman" [Feb. 4]. I think he summarized the dichotomy of her character eloquently, without condoning or condemning her behavior. Despite our distance from her, we can't help pitying and chastising her in turn. At the same time, her talent and the truth from which it springs should not be denied. We can only hope that she learns to rectify the struggle that feeds her art without somehow letting the art excuse or enable her personal maelstrom. Regardless of whatever challenges she faces...
...with her new studio album “Detours,” which bills itself as the work of a contemplative and reborn artist engaging in a weighty wrestling match with concerns ranging from the White House to a bout with breast cancer to a broken engagement with cycling star Lance Armstrong. The political material comes first, and it comes strong. The album’s first and shortest track, “God Bless This Mess” might well be its best. With an acoustic guitar and a set of scratchy, vinyl-sounding vocals, Crow brings...
...masturbatory tendencies of one’s deepest thoughts reach the point when they are freely allowed to rear their head in real life, you can be certain of two things. One, you’re crazy. And two, you might just end up being a pretty successful rap star (cf. Kanye). But not long into “Gimme That,” it becomes sorrowfully clear that self-centeredness à la Mr. West does not necessarily make a good rap video. The video begins with the St. Louis rapper nodding off in a chair, followed...
...that’s strikingly similar to the one depicted in Janet and Michael’s 1995 “Scream.” While “Scream,” the most expensive music video ever produced, had a bit of a futuristic “Star Wars” feel to it, “Shawty Get Loose” looks Spaceballs-cheap: it’s gaudy and completely ridiculous. Lil Mama starts things off dancing in an insanely well-lit corridor. She raps with a subtle melodic lilt over a boomingly percussive beat...
...proving just as poisonous as the ailments. A new report from New York-based Human Rights charges that the Caretaker Government has trampled over basic human rights to achieve its goals. The report, which focuses on the testimony of Tasneem Khalil, a prominent journalist for the English-language Daily Star newspaper and for CNN and a part-time consultant to Human Rights Watch, paints a depressing picture of abuse at the hands of Bangladesh's military intelligence agency. Khalil, who had been writing about the security forces' alleged role in extra-judicial killings, torture and arbitrary arrests, was picked...