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...Bush administration continued sending tens of thousands of troops to the region in preparation for war. News reports have estimated the number may eventually climb as high as 250,000; it seems that Bush is set on going to war, no matter the outcome of the inspections. Yet vocal protests—on this campus and others across the nation—to what is seemingly an inevitable war have been quiet compared to protests of the 1960s. Admittedly, this is not Vietnam, and a war on the other side of the world without a draft does not rile...
...place of electronica and the electric guitar in the music of this new hip-hop movement. But Common’s new album delivers the exclamation point on an already strong declaration. In “New Wave,” Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab delivers a stunning vocal hook as Common declares his independence from the music industry. Meanwhile, “Jimi was a Rock Star” serves as a nod to the album’s most obvious musical influence, as well as a showcase for Common’s lyrical abilities...
Meanwhile, Missy’s inimitable vocal science is perfected, sounding more comfortable and justified than ever. In the masterpiece “Work It,” she renounces any pretense at literary substance in favor of infantile rhymes (“keep your eyes on my babumpabump-bump / and think you can handle this gadonkadonk-donk?”) that realize the joy of pure lyrical play and make the song’s ill bump’n’groove all the more infectious. “Meaning” is baggage in music that?...
...think, too, that Presley's sexy swiveling was as much an anachronism as an innovation. Elvis was, at heart, a song-and-dance man. In the Big Band days, singers would come forward after the band's opening refrain, perform the vocal and sit down. Country stars kept busy strumming guitar; blues shouters had the piano to bang on; and crooners like Bing Crosby and Perry Como ("Perry Coma" in Harvey Kurtzman's Humbug parody of America's most popular TV star of the mid-50s) just stood around and smiled. Elvis, in the instrumental interludes between his singing, simply...
...what's left? A terrific crooner who was closer, in intonation, vocal virtuosity and care for a song's mood, to Bing Crosby than to any top singer of the rock era. We have to entertain the possibility that Elvis was exactly the anachronism he wanted to be. In the 1956 Charleston interview, he'd been asked what he would do after the rock 'n roll fad faded, as many adults thought or hoped it would. "When it's gone," Elvis said, "I'll switch to something else. I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does...