Word: jacksonism
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...clothes are tighter, pop music bears more of a Michael Jackson influence, and I personally no longer get that smug ironic feeling when I sit down to watch Top Gun with my buddies. A final clear—and bed-wettingly hilarious—sign of this return to our roots is the new Trey Parker and Matt Stone production Team America: World Police...
Case in point is their cover of Johnny and June Carter Cash’s “Jackson.” The original duet was no lyrical masterpiece but instead drew its charm from the interplay of the couple. Here it is effectively gutted by their removal of the male voice, stripping the tune of its original charisma and replacing it with vocalist Sally Ellyson’s somnambulant, though urbane, croon. Here and elsewhere on the album, her voice lacks any of the smoke or hue that lends distinction to good country singing. As a result, the album...
Cornell’s troupe depicted the influence of the West on Eastern culture through a dance story about hunters stalking deer through the forest. The Cornell dancers donned berets and shifted their music from Indian song to the sounds of the Black Eyed Peas and Janet Jackson, integrating Western style with their traditional forms as the spirits of the story’s deer rose up with increased vitality after the hunters’ ravage...
...very early hours of Monday morning, I was not supposed to write this sentence. A few minutes before, my roommate, Barrett B. Jackson ’06, had loudly called off our public experiment in political discourse, not to mention our private attempt at maintaining a close friendship despite partisan difference...
...years ago, Barrett Beatrice Jackson lived across the hall from me on the second floor of Straus...