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SOUL D'Angelo's brilliant Voodoo (Cheeba/Virgin) brings a refreshing, maverick artistry...
Most of what passes for pop swing these days is content simply to give off heat. Retro acts like the Brian Setzer Orchestra, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Cherry Poppin' Daddies create swing that owes more to rock than jazz; it's propelled by attitude, sometimes fueled by electric guitars and focused more on excitement than enlightenment. Much of today's pop swing is also burdened by irony--many acts seem to be sending the genre up even as they get down...
...neurotic paranoia. And so, like any good Harvard students, we took matters into our own hands. Hoping to manipulate the randomization deans, some of us shrank our blocking groups and fabricated medical conditions. Others, hoping to appease the randomization deities, sacrificed f rozen poultry, chanted ritualistic verses and burned voodoo dolls. Indeed, by the time housing results were actually announced, anti-Quad sentiment had reached a passionate fervor...
...those members of the class of 2002 fortunate enough to find themselves randomized into the Quad, congratulations. Fight the temptation to reach for the transfer application or burn more voodoo dolls. Instead, hold your head high and enthusiastically embrace the house that you will soon call your home...
Tardy, a Folklore and Mythology concentrator, is writing a thesis on voodoo and classical blues lyrics...