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...with vocal harmonies that occasionally bleed into fast, screamy breakdowns. But just as it is impossible to listen to this CD without the party of helicopter’s seminal Mt. Forever coming to mind, it is equally difficult to tune out the strains of any number of mediocre pop-punk bands...
...first three tracks emblemize this interplay. Track one (“Am I saying ‘tight’ too much?”) begins with what sounds like a classic indie-pop-punk riff and whiny vocals (“fuck this town/I’ll burn it down”) but then eventually progresses to an impassioned and screechy vocal breakdown à la Born Against’s “I am an Idiot.” This trend crops up again, but reversed, in track three—starting out with the intense...
...subject of pop music, Rybeck noted an increasing trend of pop-theater hybrid shows à la Mamma Mia or Movin’ Out, counseling students to become savvy in this new crossover style. Prince insisted that such changes were only evolutions in a perennially relevant art form, saying that musical theater was still “part of our American heritage...
...Theater songs take the character from one emotional place to another,” she explained, as opposed to their more emotionally static pop counterparts. “A pop lyric is not written to be acted.” But with the birth of hybrid musicals attempting just that, Rybeck rejoined, “a new technique is being born right now on Broadway...
...should be noted that Shady/Aftermath is responsible for five of the ten songs on this week’s chart. I don’t think any one label has ever dominated the pop landscape so completely before, and it makes me wonder whether the collective is headed for a breakdown. History seems to suggest that they are, but with Dre’s Detox imminent, another G-Unit album on the way, and a D-12 record surely on the horizon, I don’t know if they’ll ever go cold. This whole feud between...