Word: lyrically
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Beyond any concerns with Clarkson's lyric-writing abilities, what supposedly made Davis and his company nervous about My December is the album's emphasis on "rock," which is even how iTunes refers to it. (Davis took over SonyBMG during the making of Clarkson's previous, and more pop, album, Breakaway.) In essence, Clarkson wants to rebrand herself, an extremely alarming move -- for record moguls, anyway -- when hit records are more imperative than ever to the life of the slowly expiring music business...
...Children's Poet Laureate. He created the Mark Twain Poetry Award, "recognizing a poet's contribution to humor in American poetry." Barr also published several essays criticizing the state of American poetry. He accused it of "intellectual and spiritual stagnation." He called out poets for being addicted to lyric poetry (as opposed to, say, epic or satirical poetry) and for being obsessed with formal experimentation. He dissed M.F.A. programs for churning out careerist, cookie-cutter poets who were "sustained by a system of fellowships, grants, and other subsidies that absolve recipients of the responsibility to write books that a reader...
...leap from his court-jestering with the Histrionics. Smashed Nissan or song by the Knack-Kesminas sees both as found objects for him to "sculpt." He's now composing a ditty to the tune of Led Zeppelin's Rock and Roll, though he keeps getting stuck on the lyric, "I spent my whole life being pigeon-holed." He needn't worry. He is too clever a cultural contortionist for that...
...know of that somehow willingly tricked parents into letting their children listen to songs encouraging cocaine and crystal meth use. What could they do? “Two lines of coke I cut with Drano/And her nose starts to bleed/A most beautiful ruby red” is a great lyric. So real college be damned. I am ecstatic that the CEB finally embraced Yardfest’s permanent junior high theme. For once, I don’t want something else. —Kimberly E. Gittleson HATE YOU, THIRD EYE BLIND! I haven’t thought about Third...
...evening on a weeknight, the last thing a student like me wants is more class. And yet I felt like I should be taking notes during The Lyric Stage of Boston’s pedantic production of “Miss Witherspoon,” by Christopher F. Durang...