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Ortega still likes to take shots at Washington--in one of his victory speeches, he said Bush "is seeking to start wars with the whole world"--but he has strived to adopt a more moderate look. His campaign anthem this year was sung to the tune of John Lennon's Give Peace a Chance. To underscore his warmer, fuzzier incarnation, supporters often wore pink to rallies instead of the party's more militant red and black. But whether Ortega has shed his penchant for cynicism is another question. He and his Sandinista comrades were global guerrilla heroes when they overthrew...
...know there are at least 40 synonyms for corny?) But Jackson is a sentimentalist with a minimalist's taste in lyrics, so tracks like The Firefly's Song ("I don't want you like I used to/ This old man wants you more") feel honest, especially when sung in his regal baritone. Fellow minimalist Alison Krauss produces, and bans take-it-up-a-notch! key changes and swollen strings. What's left is something worthy of a really good antonym...
...weeks, Halloween will be forgotten in the new seasonal tradition: arguing about Christmas. Courts will be asked to decide if carols can be sung in public schools, or a Creche displayed on Main Street. The pundits on Air America and Fox News Channel will flash their tempers in the debate over whether this is a secular or Christian country. The War on Christmas will raise more hackles than the war in Iraq. The Christmas spirit, by which I mean the nondenominational surrender to good will and good manners for a few weeks, will suffer. It wasn't supposed...
...movies and music. "White Christmas," "A Christmas Song," "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" - who wrote these songs? The same people responsible for most of the great pop music of the early and mid-20th century: Jews. In 1964, when Phil Spector produced a great album of seasonal tunes sung by his house performers (the Crystals, the Ronettes, etc.), he didn't call it the Holiday Album. It was A Christmas Gift for You, and it ended with Spector himself dewily intoning a Christmas wish, backed by violins sawing away at "Silent Night...
Toward the album’s conclusion, the intensely strange “Sexy Asshole,” reminiscent of the Prodigy and sung nearly entirely in German, is a fitting bookend for this unique, weird, and nonchalantly sexual album that you and your petit(e) ami(e) will never be able to get out of your heads...