Word: lyrically
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...Wicked” in “Fable Attraction,” a spin-off of traditional fairy tales ranging from Humpty Dumpty to Cinderella. With a savvy balance of pop-culture references, word play, and Harvard humor, the constant jokes in nearly every line and lyric might seem a little excessive at first, but they keep the audience engaged until the curtain falls and leave it wanting more. Before the show even begins, the title “Fable Attraction” begins the onslaught of comedy. The curtains open, a colorful unicorn named “Peggy Seuss?...
...final nail in the coffin. Perhaps no band better exemplifies America’s resistance to good rock better than British Sea Power. In 2005, MTV in North America banned the video for their single “Please Stand Up” because of the devilishly provocative lyric “a little excitement makes us wetter.” So even as British Sea Power scores Top 40 hits across the pond, in the US they continue to toil in semi-obscurity, registering somewhere between British brethren Bloc Party and Maxïmo Park on the popularity scale...
...should be receptive to his down-home, conservative appeal. But the chattering classes will dog him for weeks; Iowa, after all, is a state teaming with evangelical values voters. Over and over again, Huckabee, the former Baptist pastor, will be asked the inverse of Frank Sinatra's famous lyric: "If you can't make it here, how can you make it anywhere...
...Cause we all know that the game’s not over until the fullback sings. “I got goose bumps,” says Murphy. Van Niel’s experience as an opera-singing fullback (or perhaps a football-playing lyric tenor) recently captured the interest of the national media. The sudden attention surprised Van Niel. “It’s kind of funny,” he says. “I was doing these things before...and I’ll be doing them after.” Noah?...
...wonderful thing when a rapper decides to embrace manhood. But back to the music. It’s hard not to be enraptured by Freeway’s impassioned, raspy voice, just as it’s tough to underestimate his intuition for placing a fermata above a lyric just where it’s needed. If Otis Redding rapped, he might be Freeway. The album’s melodies are sparse, beautiful, often sampled from old soul hits, marked by heraldic horns and enough jazz flute to make Herbie Mann proud. “Free at Last?...