Word: pop
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ring tone of his Nokia 6110 mobile phone. "I didn't want to hear 'de de de de deeeee' ever again," Paananen recalls. "I wanted to hear Van Halen's Jump, and I was willing to pay for it." The technology was there to program mobile phones to play pop tunes rather than electronic bleeps, so he tried to talk operators and handset makers into offering a selection of popular hits. But his pleas fell on deaf ears: "The biggest resistance was from the operators, who said, 'Ring tones, what's that?'" After almost a year of failed pitches, Paananen...
Today, though, it’s pure American comic existentialism, stealing a glance away from its navel to plunder decades of pop culture. References to weapons of mass destruction, The Matrix and Popeye abound among more serious moments of reflection...
...Kaneshiro plays like he was born to the bow; maybe he's been taking archery lessons from Orlando Bloom. Lau, whose Mandarin had to be dubbed for the film, suffers in an underwritten role, although director Zhang does find the coldness buried in the deepening lines of the veteran pop idol's face...
MUSIC: Excellent gay pop from the Scissors Sisters...
They are also the most enjoyable pop group to emerge in recent memory, largely because they understand the genre so well. Pop music--where the same three chords have been swapping clothes for the past 50 years--is the nexus of the avant-garde and the conventional, and on their debut, out (finally) July 27, the Scissor Sisters--Shears, Babydaddy, Ana Matronic, Paddy Boom and Del Marquis--walk the line with Madonna-like confidence. Take Your Mama, their first single, is about getting Mom drunk on cheap champagne so you can come out of the closet to her while going...