Word: singings
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...Busta Rhymes rapping over characteristically ebullient Neptunes tracks as well as rock from N.E.R.D. and Spymob, the Neptunes' house band. It should debut at No. 1 on Billboard's album chart. But the real gift on Clones is Williams. He comes out from behind the mixing boards to sing on the album's first single, Frontin', which sounds like nothing else on the radio. Over a jumpy, lover-man R.-and-B. riff, Williams slides into a quavering falsetto and sings, "I know that I'm carrying on/never mind if I'm showing off/I was just frontin'." If Frontin' were...
...SING WANG CEO, Tom.com...
There's Cookie Monster's alter ego, Trekkie Monster, who is addicted to Internet porn, and a pair of sexualized Ernie and Bert characters, Nicky and Rod, who room together but don't sleep together, much to Rod's dismay. On shabby, outer-borough Avenue Q, they sing jaunty little songs about racism (Everyone's a Little Bit Racist) and depression (There Is Life Outside Your Apartment) while falling in love, getting evicted and coming...
...year-old Elvis Presley went to Sun's studio to record two songs for his mother and was soon vamping on the Arthur Crudup tune That's All Right. Phillips legendarily remarked, "That's a pop song, just 'bout." Pop as in a pop-music explosion. Phillips didn't sing or play an instrument, he didn't always produce the music that came out of his studio, and in 1955 he shortsightedly sold Presley's contract to RCA for $35,000. But his ear was infallible. He had the aural version of precognition. He retired a rich man--not because...
...jerk defenses to his critics: "I don't do conflict resolution." At times the musical even makes you care for these sad, dysfunctional guests, who can justify their messed-up lives only by acting them out for the TV camera. "Dip me in chocolate/Throw me to the lesbians," they sing. "This is my Jerry Springer moment...