“Straight, working class from Brooklyn. Sexy, charismatic, musically gifted, but also self-destructive and remote.” (The breakdown adds that the performer “Must be able to sing in a rock and/or soul voice” and that “Ability to play an instrument and dance a plus, but not essential,...
In England, holly was often used to symbolize men or masculinity. Ivy represented women or femininity. A somewhat less-recognized Christmas carol (and one that I prefer) is“The Holly and the Ivy,”in which the holly characterizes Jesus and the ivy, Mary. The song contains the ...
All this time later the grown-up Jimmy Three is still momentarily captured by memories past whenever he hears the Sons of the Pioneers sing, . “Can ya see that big, green tree where the water’s runnin’ free? And it’s waiting there for you and me? Water, cool clear water.” . ...
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Even when dementia patients can’t speak, they can often still sing. SingFit says that singing and remembering lyrics are often the last things to be forgotten. Speaking uses the left side of the brain, but singing uses the entire brain. Because both sides of the brain are engaged, the ...
On the more serious side, the magazine also featured Mary Edith Griswold’s first-hand account of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and its aftermath. One of the more stirring moments from her narrative: “As we stopped on Stockton street to watch a toppling-wall I found myself next an ...
Starring Jon Hamm, Tina Fey, Micah Stock, Nick Mohammed, Happy Anderson, and Mary Holland When two women with the same name are murdered days apart, small-town police chief Jordan Sanders (Hamm) finds himself wading through an unlikely collection of cheating husbands, lonely hearts, nosy neighb...
Second is “Auntie Diaries”. I’ve never heard a rap song like this before, where Lamar dives into two instances where a member of his family changes their gender, which Lamar sums up with the lyrics “my auntie is a man now” and “Demetrius is Mary-Ann now”. This song touches...
We often see that the song has been hijacked by a Praise Band or Polished Professional Singer who drowns out the congregational singing with loud music and their own voices and makes the lyrics of the song that they sing to be so unknown or twisted in musical rhythm that only the Praise ...
Take my morning jog for example. As the first rays of sunlight peek through the clouds, I lace up my sneakers and hit the road. The fresh air fills my lungs, and I feel a sense of vitality surging through me. The world around me seems to wake up with me, birds chirping and leaves...