So when there started to be an issue with it, lyrically, I was, like, “What are you talking about?”There are women who really like the song and connect to the energy that just gets you up. And “I know you want it” - women sing those kinds of lyrics all the time. So it's...
This song was so captivating and addictive that Run-D.M.C. and the Beastie Boys would rush to the dressing room after the show and listen to it on my JVC boombox. It wasn’t just a statement about political and social issues—it was a statement about how no motherfuckers could make ...
Songs add another element, that of words, thereby changing this emotive element into an emotive and linguistic one. There is nothing new to using songs in the classroom; a number of suggestions can be found, especially online, about how to use songs in the classroom (see, for example,Alegri...
While recent singles “Wet,”“Girls Don’t Cheat” and “Body Favors” have made the rounds on socials, it’s “PDA” that stands as the project’s crown jewel. “Does anybody in here have a problem with us acting up?/ Ain’t you ever seen a ...
captain.'" Smith and her husband had protested the Vietnam War in their younger days and had been consistently involved in social and political justice issues, so their goal was to write a new song that embodied the same strong spirit that permeated the music of the '60s and '70s. "It ...
captain.'" Smith and her husband had protested the Vietnam War in their younger days and had been consistently involved in social and political justice issues, so their goal was to write a new song that embodied the same strong spirit that permeated the music of the '60s and '70s. "It ...
"The amazing thing about Bob is that, over the scope of his decades-long career or even the film’s ‘61 to ‘65 window, his level of human insight could range from the sociopolitical issues at the time to very sincere, intimate love songs that were extremely personal to him...
One major function of musical numbers in cinema serves as utopian moments not only for the characters to temporarily step aside from the diegetic story space, but also for the audience to envision ‘what utopia would feel like’, something that may or may not be realised at the end of the...
that created the offense of “gross indecency” for same-sex male sexual relations, enabling any form of sexual behavior between men to be prosecuted (lesbian sexual relations—because they were unimaginable to male legislators—were not subject to the law). Likewise, inGermanyin the early 1870...
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