matt sayles/ap/shutterstock a lois lane fantasy left off speak now, but it gets a real upgrade with her taylor’s version vocal muscle. best line: “tall, dark and beautiful/he’s complicated, he’s irrational.” “cold as you” (2006) image credit: ethan miller/acma/getty images “...
“Angel of My Dreams” is a musical Frankenstein, an unholy amalgam of girl group parts sewn together in all of the wrong places. Like Mary Shelley’s monster, the song’s beating heart is sweetly, wretchedly human, with JADE playing up the pathos of a singer who’s realized her dreams...
There’s also what seems to be a random swipe at Sting (“Better make like a fly if you don’t want to die / Look out, there goes Gordon!”). Of course, Costello would later become pals with Sting, as he turned into one of rock’s great statesmen instead of one of its angry ...
Lovestruck lyric: And darling I will be loving you ’til we’re 70 / And baby my heart could still fall as hard at 23 / And I’m thinking ’bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways / Maybe just the touch of a hand / Oh me I fall in love with you every single day 18....
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With “Poland,” a snippet that leaked and was wisely left untouched for its official release, Lil Yachty reimagines that white-hot sound palette as an environment for something awfully close to mourning. “Poland” has only an eight-bar verse; the point is the chorus, an oddly wistful ...
If you think you’ve got a grasp of Mitchell’s early talents, a new archival release proves they were more prodigious than you could imagine. Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975) kicks off with a solo version of "Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire." And as great...
” songs whose sole aim is to be as catchy and good-natured as humanly possible. David Kahne’s production enhances the sonic irresistibility of it all. If a 16-year-old with bangs over his eyes had released the same exact song in 2007, they would have hailed him as the Next Big ...
relatable lyrics and his husky delivery. The way he emphasizes every phrase of the chorus with a heavy pause —“Long neck! Ice cold! Beer never broke my heart!”— has enough singalong power to make you run through a wall. And his soulful approach to the bridge (“It takes one hand ...
Starting with the single. When George and Paul and all of them were on holiday, I made “Revolution” which is on the LP and “Revolution #9.” I wanted to put it out as a single, I had it all prepared, but they came by, and said it wasn’t good enough. And we put out what...