Word: up-tempo
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...itself ready to jump on the hardwood with a surprising new weapon in its artillery: a deep bench.Bolstered by a promising freshman class and a deep sophomore unit with one year of Ivy League play under its belt, the team will look to incorporate its youth in the new up-tempo playing style that Amaker has installed. “I’m not sure what the coaches are thinking in terms of rotation, but a lot of guys will play this year,” sophomore guard Jeremy Lin says. “We are going [to play...
...Garth Brooks doesn't have her husband's ability to spin average material into commercial gold, and here her material is below average. The up-tempo title track barrels at you with the charm of a truck ad, while the lamely worded ballads float away without carrying any real emotion. Yearwood sings with brassy heft, but she can't lift this...
...dare you to keep a straight face when the Boys sing “She opens up just like a rose to me / When she’s close to me” in “Helpless When She Smiles.” Of the up-tempo dance tracks, “Panic” is the most promising for a much-needed top-40 single, with a catchy beat and surprisingly appealing vocal layering. Still, “Panic” is held back—as are all the tracks—by an overproduced, synthesized sound...
However, the play of the usually up-tempo Crimson squad was clearly withering in the heat. The quickness that Harvard can usually rely on to beat defensemen down the wing and to win balls in the middle was seldom on display against the Black Bears...
...exactly what it endeavors to be: fun. However, the brand-name brains settled for a spotty pop mixture based on the sounds of their former clients, and “Damn Thing” retains little of what used to be amusing about Lavigne’s music. The up-tempo punk-pop tunes that put Lavigne on the map seem to have devolved–something one would have thought impossible–into even simpler, standard fare. On this, her third solo album, Lavigne aspires to the same fuck-you pretension that marked her past two discs...