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Marx describes the unique, retrospective sounds of his album as “the experimentation of late ’60s pop music updated for the 21st century listener.” He finds it “lacking genre or static ideas of nationality or outdated notions of time and structure,” and refers to it as, “The Return of Melody. A Catchy Critique of Pop Music.” The January release was Beekeeper Records’ first...
...dance competition and inviting groups from other schools. I also want to see Expressions do a serious and meaningful piece during the Black Arts Festival: a chronicle of the history of dance as it relates to African-Americans. I want people to understand where jazz, hip hop, and pop-and-lock actually come from. I also plan to start an after-school program at my church back in New York that fuses dance with many of the subjects learned in class. For example, the importance of formations in many types of dance can easily be used to explain concepts...
Oasis hit stateside with one wildly popular pop hit, “Wonderwall,” which will be a part of ’90s nostalgia forever. On their side, Blur had the anthem “Song 2,” which forever will be remembered for its “woohoo!” chorus, an arena standard with an underlying irony: the song is notoriously a British parody of the times’ ubiquitous American grunge...
...difference between these bands’ ties to pop-culture history is fundamental to their difference as a band: whereas Oasis were plodding, incomprehensible lyrically but musically well-trained in writing hook-heavy guitar rock, Blur took a step back and refused to take on the high-mindedness that Oasis never quite seem able to convincingly pull...
...angles and focus on the real problem in what you’re saying: your claim of high-mindedness. I’m not sure exactly what you mean by that, but there’s no way that you can possibly believe that Blur’s art-pop pedigree schtick is less high-minded than Oasis’s “tough guys with a sneer” schtick...