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...released her English-language debut album months ago. Years, even. Gloria Estefan was going to rewrite Shakira's songs into English for the young Colombian to sing. Instead, Shakira decided to improve her English, and Estefan ultimately assisted on just two tracks. "I can't hire other people to write songs for me," Shakira says. "I have to write them myself." 2) Shakira is a control freak. Sorry, this bears repeating. See, the reason this story is set in Florida to begin with is that Shakira wouldn't send any tracks from her still-in-the-works CD to TIME...
...booty of R&B, but the intimacy most songwriters avoid, incapable of such self-revelation. Her music, particularly since her film, is often redolent of musicals. “It’s Not Up To You” sounds like a bit like something Sondheim might write in his dreams of the perfect voice. Her childlike, idiosyncratic, careful enunciation recalls the children from the Sound of Music, if it had been written about a hundred years later than it was. While the coda to “Pagan Poetry,” a call-and-response between Bj?...
...Sondheim. Without being told the composer, one can recognize the voice that would later create RENT. The show, however, is more than an early work to be admired merely for its promise. Yes, it reminds of all the great musicals that Larson will never get a chance to write; but it also presents the public with another great musical that he managed to leave behind...
...newest novel is the 1996 Harper’s piece in which he lamented the state of American fiction and argued that the way to save the American novel from irrelevancy was to connect “the personal and the social,” to write about the lives of individual characters while also saying something compelling and honest about their (and our) larger world...
Despite this, Fury is less teeming and wonderfully overcrowded with characters than many of his other works (perhaps due to the volume’s relative slimness—Rushdie says that he has been “trying to write a short novel for years,” and is proud to have finally succeeded), though there are still several juicy cameos: Schlink, the Jewish U-boat plumber (“Erect, wiry, with Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth”), or Beloved Ali the taxi driver (“Hey! American...