Word: vocals
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...prove intransigent. “[I’ll] bring my rat trap, and there will be a live rat inside, to show you they do indeed exist,” she said at the time. But the agitators aren’t without their opponents and the most vocal among them has been serial commenter Roy Bercaw. “The only way you’re going to get rid of rodents is to get rid of people and food. If you just allow biotech companies and alcohol in the city, you’ll have no more...
...Davis' side are the small but vocal, and growing, forces against circumcision, so-called intactivists: young parents who don't want to alter their perfect babies, men who feel their circumcisions left them psychically scarred and sexually disadvantaged ("I always felt something was missing, not functioning properly," says David Wilson, whose Stop Infant Circumcision Society marches on Washington annually) and even some medical professionals who consider the procedure genital mutilation...
...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. This highly manufactured style may have worked in the mid-nineties at the height of their popularity, but it just feels bogus and dated...
...attack on the paparazzi, media, and K-Fed. Spears displays a concerted self-confidence that imbues the album with intensity and energy. Most tracks have a heavily electronic sound, but are more substantial than earlier efforts by Spears. The listener is rewarded with a wide range of beats and vocal retouching that represent significant growth on the part of Spears—or at least the album’s most prolific producer, Timbaland protégé Danja. The album is acutely aware of Britney’s recent absence from the pop music scene and the tracks that...
...sense of responsibility for preserving tradition. Tomorrow, the Harvard South Asian Association will bring Bharatanatyam, as well as other South Asian dance styles, to Lowell Lecture Hall in its third annual production of “Kalpanam.” Dance pieces will be interspersed with instrumental and vocal music from both Northern and Southern India. While “Kalpanam” is a relatively new Harvard tradition, it partakes in a long history of Indian music, dance, and drama. “Indian classical dance is something that has been carried down for thousands of years...