With tears in her eyes, she laid down a demo for the group to use; a few months later, when she’d rejoined them, she spent five hours trying to re-do the vocals, but no version came close to the rawness of that first recording, the one that gives the song its potent sense of...
Image: Jive Britney’s debut single was a game-changer that helped to usher in a new generation of bombastic teen-pop, often crafted by Swedish songwriting genius Max Martin. The video featuring La Spears in school uniform is iconic, obviously, but let’s not overlook the fact that the so...
Other influences cited include the hipster-jive announcing styles of 1950s rhythm-and-blues deejays such as Jocko Henderson; the Black power poetry of Amiri Baraka, Gil Scott-Heron, and the Last Poets; rapping sections in recordings by Isaac Hayes and George Clinton; and the Jamaican style of...
was one of five number one hits from her album of the same name. no one had done that since michael jackson’s bad . perry wrote the song with max martin and dr. luke in santa monica, building it around what she called “a chaka khan fierce little beat.” as she also said, “i...
Other influences cited include the hipster-jive announcing styles of 1950s rhythm-and-blues deejays such as Jocko Henderson; the Black power poetry of Amiri Baraka, Gil Scott-Heron, and the Last Poets; rapping sections in recordings by Isaac Hayes and George Clinton; and the Jamaican style of...
The run goes back until October 2013 - from then until December 2015, only seven songs spent more than one consecutive week at number one, and there have been six already in the first five months of 2015. I Am A Stegosaurus12th November 2015 0 In 2014, there were only nine songs to ...
Over five minutes the melodies fall away, and the anger grows, until his guitar and Kim Gordon’s bass are in apocalyptic mode. One more verse and it all starts again, this time building from near silence to the most extreme of feedback. 64: David Bowie: The Width of a Circle (Solo...
“There’s a harmony guitar or two in there as well – in fact there’s all sorts of things going on under the hood, including five seconds of dramatic monologue for the discerning listener with a good stereo. From that opening bend, it’s all blues stuff around the 12th fret really....
In songs like "You're Breaking My Heart" (". . .so fuck you"), "Gotta Get Up," and "I Guess the Lord Must Be In New York City" he applied pop color to the darkness of a shut in, and Three Dog Night turned "One" (". . .is the loneliest number"), into a Top Five hit...
Jive Records 48. (Hed) P.E., 'Broke' (2000) In contradiction to the album’s title, this album was rich in nu-metal authenticity. Their second album saw the band polish their sound to now include classic rock and world music influence while still retaining their punk-meets-hip-hop tast...