Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...songs to a group of 15 or 18, the "time consuming" part of the writing begins. McGeoch says that it takes PIL from a year to a year and a half to complete this stage. "I can never understand bands that go into multitrack and write songs in the studio," he says. "To me it's an ongoing process. It's a skill and not an inspiration...
Then along came advances in studio technology and radio-station niche marketing. Leading-edge music is now subdivided into such abstruse and sharply segregated categories as Christian Rap, Acid Jazz and Grunge Rock, and it can be created, almost untouched by human hands, with something called a Musical Instrument Digital Interface. The two major currents of pop today have much to do with attitude and little to do with musicality: heavy metal speaks to priapic barbarism, and rap is so belligerent that for some it verges on antimusic...
...point type ("The Citizen Kane of alcoholic clown movies") or work for magazines that savor free publicity in a movie ad ("Peter Travers, Rolling Stone"). But in their little black hearts, ! critics know they have scant individual power. "In order to effectively buy critics," Schickel says, "a studio would have to buy 10 or 20 of them...
...other times he falls behind and is just a kid who pulls out a comic book to read or a portable video game to play when he grows bored during meetings with studio executives or interviews with journalists. One is reminded that, though he may be successful and street-smart, he is hardly sophisticated: his appearance at last year's Cannes Film Festival was the first time in his life he had been outside...
...some fool from Idaho or Encino direct a movie about living in my neighborhood. If they didn't want to do the movie with me directing, they didn't want to do the movie." Impressed by the young man's moxie, Frank Price, then head of the studio, gave him the go-ahead. Says Price: "The last time I saw someone with that kind of confidence, it was Steve Spielberg when he was about that...