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...authority. Traoré's sound may be exotic, ethereal, otherworldly - all words trotted out to praise the good in the impossibly broad "world-music" genre - but her themes are universal. Déli is a meditation on friendship. The title track - named for a lullaby Traoré's mother sang to her - wrestles with child poverty. She even deals with politics, but insists she could never work in that language. She thinks of the complexity of Mali's relations with the International Monetary Fund as well as her country's cotton farmers and how they suffer because Western nations subsidize...
...professional trend spotters you interviewed tell us that burlesque will be cool and cell phones will be the means for transactions of all types. If this is the cool future, then send me back to the square past! Of course, almost 40 years ago, Paul Revere and the Raiders sang that "kicks just keep getting harder to find." The youth of each generation has its moments of temporary insanity, but for any society to thrive and move forward, there must be awareness of and respect for the past. If we Americans keep pushing the envelope in an increasingly outrageous quest...
...tiny little stick figures with guitars are unable to reach beyond the footlights. But for the best bands, arenas are where they come into their own. On Friday night, the audience as a single body underwent a symbiotic connection to the band, rendering us one being. When Thom Yorke sang “We are accidents / Waiting to happen,” he was singing about all of us there, and we all knew it. When Yorke went ballistic, gyrating around in the stage in a demented head-shaking, knees-up hoedown, we all leapt with him. We the audience...
...watched last May as Ruben Studdard edged out Aiken by less than 1% of the votes. Studdard was the more polished singer, but Aiken was the better narrative. Week to week, with the help of a hair iron and contact lenses, he was transformed from a complete geek who sang show tunes into a better-looking geek who sang pop ballads. After the Idol finale, interest in Aiken surged, and his startlingly sincere first single, This Is the Night, trounced Studdard's to become the best-selling single since Elton John's reworked Candle in the Wind. Modern rock radio...
...became actively involved with the boys’ choir, where Law sang as a Harvard student in the 1950s, and continued to support its activities after leaving the parish...