Word: seemly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...what it is. All of the most absurd things in history went largely unquestioned, because people were already indoctrinated in them. It would be something like going to the Coliseum if you were a Roman. The fact that people were getting killed and eaten by lions didn't seem strange to you; you grew up with that. Hip-hop's language and messages are normal now to people, normal to someone my son's age. I remember a time before that came in. To me it's still hard for that to become normal, it's hard...
...reappear at intervals without much consequence. While in Martin's previous hit "Livin' La Vida Loca" the energy and verve present was able to compensate for so-so vocals, this was clearly not the case in either version of "She Bangs." Both the backing music and vocals just seem like mediocre rehashes of past successes...
...Reese Witherspoon, who plays Nicky's angelic mother. According to the movie, heaven is a lot like the high school from Clueless, populated by vacuous, bubbly, seraphic teenagers. Witherspoon is perfect for the part. Like in all Sandler movies, the funniest moments in the film are the ones that seem to come out of nowhere (i.e. the hemorrhaging clown in Billy Madison, a comedic gem of the twentieth century). Fortunately, Little Nicky is packed with these random moments, and in the end, they are what make the film a hell of a lot funnier than anything else Sandler has done...
...genre. Perhaps it's a case of too many people wanting in on a piece of the Martin action: a quick glance at the credits shows each song to have been engineered by around 10 people, which may have contributed to the generic quality of the songs. The lyrics seem forced, with discordant rhymes that are unnaturally matched with background instrumentals...
...Offspring is at home in that genre, when they stray away, the boys are certainly unwelcome strangers in a foreign land. Forays into more mainstream sensibilities seem a poorly conceived mishmash. On "Special Delivery," high pitched squeals from House of Pain's "Jump Around" trade off against the "ooga-chucka" repetition ripped from Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling," while "Denial, Revisited" could have come from any band inspired by the '90s grunge craze. Offspring reaches too far in attempting to conjure lasting hooks on the more marketable songs, as they seemingly struggle to conjure a chart-topping, radio...