Word: sing
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...Poets and playwrights wrote of insecurity. Pop singers may have (justifiably) felt it. But they certainly didn't sing about it to their fans. Lennon did. "Every now and then I feel so insecure," he sang in "Help!" He also admitted to jealousy, suicidal depression and (in "Cold Turkey") heroin addiction...
...such an unsettling time, I felt justified in writing a song," recalls Badu. "When I sat down to write it, I had no idea what I would say. Now I feel relieved about it every time I sing it. I feel like it's his words, coming through...
...funny." It is precisely such mundane thinking that brought us Suddenly Susan, but there's a bit of truth in there too. Comedy that breaks--rules, conventions, boundaries of taste--is a tricky business. Break too much, and the audience hates you. (No one has asked Roseanne to sing the National Anthem or invited Andrew Dice Clay to a NOW dinner in a long time.) But break just right, and you get the deep-from-the-gut, disbelieving laughter that mere benders will never know...
...with strong vocals, great melodies and silky-smooth harmonies. In "Let Love Rule," Kravitz's voice is so enjoyable it takes you a while to realize that "Love transcends all space and time/And love can make a little child smile" is nonsensical schlock. And as you start to sing along, you might realize that you don't mind so much. B -Myung...
...gushes, "She bangs! It's a metaphor for the universe. You know the big bang theory? So the universe is really this 'mother universe'-she bangs, and explodes. She moves. The planets, the galaxies, are all moving. That's what it means." New rule for pop stars: Sing, Don't Speak...