This is why a weirdly close analysis can be useful: They changed the lyrics at the end of the title sequence. We already went over the history of Leonard Bernstein's poem turned song, noting that the entirety of the song didn't make it into the 90-second ...
It’s easy being negative, it has become as easy as breathing these days. From my own observations I’ve noticed people look straight to the negatives and ignore the positives. Look to the news, social media, or the people in your own lives. You may be a person that is less negative ...
when I meet the cast at Comedy Central’s L.A. headquarters, he acknowledges to me thatThe Other Two’s jokes may be “on point” for people in their twenties or thirties, but there are references in the show that go over his head. “Like, I don’t know...
Jason Robert Brown’s music is lush, stirring, heart squeezing and highly emotional. His lyrics establish the emotional lives of all concerned. These ae good people (Marsha Norman’s book is embracing) in emotional situations. The passion and grip of the songs swirl people along to its emotion...
I know many people, including myself, were expecting a new design. Alas, this was not the case -- although the AirPods case did get some noticeable upgrades that we'll dive into soon. I have to wonder if the lack of external change was less a lack of innovation and more a...
NOTE: You might enjoy playing the song while you read on … Conditions of seclusion Julian of Norwich Theanchoritesof the Middle Ages were not professed members of the religious communities themselves (ie not under the solemn vows of the nun or monk). Rather, they were lay people who wished...
So as much as I relish the notion that there was likely a separate DNC Slack channel about the “Chappell Roan problem” last year, that doesn’t make the whole “Midwest Princess” angle feel any less underbaked to me. There’s nothing in the lyrics (or music) of “Pink Pony Club”...
“It knocked him sideways. He was completely flabbergasted by it. He was in no way perturbed by any aspect of the song, by its relatively bizarre lyrics or its avant-garde production – only speechless with admiration. I knew then we were home and dry. I suppose I had been worried that...
Some of Guthrie's original lyrics were far more radical than the ones still sung in classrooms today—including the final verse: "One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple/ By the Relief Office I saw my people/ As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if/ This land was...
Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967). This was a complete novelty and revolutionized the way pop songs have since been perceived. By printing the lyrics on the album sleeve, they gained significance and meaning, which the fans were eager to decipher. Although they had in-tended to ...