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...keep me breathing for.” The lyrics (despite the bad grammar) recall an Elliot Smith song, filled with dark and brooding imagery; but the video for “Believe” wastes its existential potential on cheap cliches. What should have been a deeply moving and raw music video becomes a glorified iPod commercial, with slightly worse lighting, defective editing, and awkward crowd surfing. As the band plays on a stage lined by flailing arms and hands, the camera randomly freezes the action into what resembles Warhol-esque snapshots. Yet these stills only remind the audience that...
Over the last few years, NASCAR has seemed to take the raw emotion, good and bad, from race day? Is this is a positive thing? -Terry McDonald, Portland, Ore.Here's the thing - there's a lot more media attention. So you're under a little bit more of a microscope these days. The penalty for showing your emotions sometimes can be bigger. But that's not good for the sport. The sport is built on personality, and fans love to see the jubilation of victory, and the frustration of defeat. They want to see people's true personality coming. That...
...Government department has found itself with a dramatically reduced number of concentrators as compared to recent years. This is part of a continuing trend in which it seems many undergraduates are opting to leave the social sciences in general for more diverse academic endeavors. Though a drop in raw numbers may be disappointing for the Gov department’s marketing crew, we believe that this reduced concentration size is a good thing. Traditionally, Government has ranked among the largest of concentrations on campus, consistently wooing hundreds of undergraduates into its folds. But whatever bragging rights these high numbers...
...dismantled over the last ten years in third-rate family films. After a decent comeback album in 2006, “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It”—the lead single for O’Shea Jackson’s 2008 album “Raw Footage”—serves as a promise to hardcore headz that he is, in fact, true to the game. The sad thing is that the promise rings a bit hollow, as trite Storch-esque piano chords and a dearth of true street knowledge belie the gritty aspirations...
...Mars. By comparison, music videos today find themselves without a home. So in one sense, it’s very nice of art museums to try and give them a new home. More than any other kind of institution, art museums have the power to transform the raw materials of culture into intellectually elevated Works Of Art. The MFA and “Mirrorball” make no bones about these kind of aspirations: “at their best, these music promos have more in common with groundbreaking short cinema than commercial flash.” But do they...