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...show,” Traoré encouraged the audience to stand up and dance along with her. At first, the audience was reluctant (#67—Standing Still at Concerts) but they soon got into the music, some even head-banging. At this point the songs picked up in tempo, and Traoré opened up to the audience. As the concert was the day before Valentine’s Day, she serenaded the audience with sweet songs of young love. The audience responded in kind, laughing at her stories and intentionally cheesy lyrics. While Traor?...
...experiment here. It’s refreshing to hear ska, jazz, and techno influences slipping into her pop beats. In one track on the new album, “Never Gonna Happen,” Allen uses folksy strings and an accordion, along with a handclap slowly building in tempo, to drill her message of rejection into the clueless head of an unwanted suitor. At the same time, though, she cleverly unravels admissions of ways in which she’s led the poor guy on, making her repeated question “How on earth could...
...listener, the focus on the vocals is no longer their meaning, but rather the manner in which they are expressed. Singer Julien Mineau’s vocals range from the drawn out and mysterious chants of “Christobald,” creating a contrast with the up-tempo rhythms that bracket the song, to the wistful and smooth vocals of “Casablanca.” It is with this variation that Malajube adds the complexity that their album title, “Labyrinthes,” implies. Malajube’s comspositions also rely heavily...
...periods. Prior to the last 20 minutes, the Crimson showed force on the offensive end. Aggressive right from the start, Harvard took its first shot on Schaus in the opening minute, following that up with 18 more shots in the frame.In the second period, the Crimson picked up the tempo as both teams’ frustration with the score began to show. But as the pace increased, so too did the amount of penalties against Harvard. With only nine shots on goal, Harvard saw five of its players hit the penalty box as the Eagles took 14 shots against Kessler...
...first game, Stevens dominated both sides of the court, posting a .600 attacking percentage and jumping up for seven blocks. After nabbing an early lead, the Ducks kept up its momentum to shut down the Crimson, 30-23. “Despite the statistics, they play a very different tempo than we’re used to,” senior co-captain Brady Weissbourd said. “They hit 600, but a lot of it was sort of tips and off-tempo stuff. They did catch us off our guard. It took us a game to adapt...