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...there are instances when it works out. In 1983, Florida teen Kenny diRobertis, who was suffering from a rare head cancer and had been given days to live, was granted a fast-track divorce so what little money he had would go to his mother and not his 27-year-old estranged wife. He lived another five years. Perhaps Dennis Hopper's not so crazy after...
Beach House’s “Teen Dream” is the musical version of a narcotic, carrying away the listener into a heavenly realm of lush pop melodies and intimate organ beats. Coming into their own on their third album, the Baltimore dream pop duo—consisting of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally—maintain their past convention of chill intimacy, while adding new layers that knit together to produce a more polished sound, setting the album apart from their previous work...
...songwriting is so precise that the moaning vocals and the densely layered music complement each other seamlessly. Each song on “Teen Dream” is a painstakingly crafted wonder. When Legrand’s voice rings out on exaggerated vowels, the music follows suit, sweeping the listener along in a daze. “Used to Be,” a rerecorded version of the track that first appeared on a 2008 single release, exemplifies this fuller sound unique to “Teen Dream.” An upbeat piano ballad of sorts, its poetic unanswered...
Beach House has truly hit a creative stride and the result is innovative and beautiful music. With its depth and sweep, the soporific melodies explore the internal difficulties of eternal teenage feelings. Such is the triumph of “Teen Dream” that, so early in the year, 2010 may already have seen one of its best albums...
...Bell has fronted two cult TV series, as the teen sleuth in Veronica Mars and the narrator of Gossip Girls; last year, in real movies, she was Jason Bateman's wife in Couples Retreat and the Sarah Marshall whom Jason Segel had to forget. Bell emits a wholesomeness that is slightly starched; she's not a dream girl, exactly, more a kid's favorite aunt. Duhamel, 37, who's been the second male lead in the Transformers movies and starred in Las Vegas for five years, has the reassuring presence of a cuter Tom Hanks, a Greg Kinnear with fewer...