I could probably tell you about even more brushes with famous people, like once spotting Canadian actress Margot Kidder in the audience of a Lyle Lovett concert in Winnipeg, but I've barely got enough space left to drop one last name, and it's my brush
with pop music history.
Anoushka Shankar blends sitar sounds
with pop music in a response to the trauma of displaced refugees.
All Rock n Roll is Homosexual: An evening hosted by Alexis Petridis with Jon Savage and Nicky Wire Wednesday 29 February 2012, 7:30 pm Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall Ticket price: # 8 Music journalist Alexis Petridis hosts an evening exploring the extensive and sometimes unexpected influence of gay culture in rock and roll and pop music,
with pop music writer and cultural historian Jon Savage and Manic Street Preachers lyricist and bassist Nicky Wire.
Rock, Paper, Scissors brings together artists whose works have kept a close relationship
with pop music: Saâdane Afif, Cory Arcangel, Art & Language, Kim Gordon & Jutta Koether, Renée Green, Mike Kelley, Lucy McKenzie, Dave Muller, Albert Oehlen and others.
In That's Me in the Corner (2017), she sings along
with pop music numbers for about 30 minutes.
When Mister Blonde ties up a police officer in a chair while the DJ discusses the Dylanesque qualities of the tune that is about to play one knows something vicious is about to happen, but it's within the playfulness of the song selection and the movement of Michael Madsen's gleeful death waltz that the scene finds a rhythm and bouncy quality that delivers the dissonant quality of murder mixed
with pop music.
This sort of film does nothing to peak my cinematic interest; riddled with teenage angst coupled
with pop music to simply date the film.
While she has gained countless new fans
with her pop music, there is still an established fan base who have loved her since the beginning.
A doula doesn't have anything to do
with pop music or Adam Sandler movies.
The 2015 Brit Awards take place this evening,
with pop music royalty from all over the world cramming into London's O2 Arena for a spectacular ceremony.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Nolan says he was only aware of Styles thanks to his kids, but had no idea of the sort of global appeal the singer - whose about to embark on a solo tour across the world - had
with pop music fans.
Not exact matches
The
pop star broke through
with her party
music, but Kesha was extremely «studious» growing up.
In my job
with Esquire, I'm often called upon to be a cocktails expert (I direct most of the spirits / drinking coverage), a
pop - culture expert (I direct a lot of the film / TV /
music coverage) and a cars expert (I edit the cars column).
As
with television shows and feature films, brands like to insert themselves into
pop culture, and
music is no different.
Fusing classical
music with pop hits, The Piano Guys have risen to fame for viral videos filmed amidst eye -
popping scenery.
«The scents of pine, cinnamon, and mulled cider join
with the sounds of carolers, traditional hymns, and
pop holiday tunes to create the Christmas holiday season in the minds of many,» notes Eric R. Spangenberg in his 2003 study, «It's Beginning to Smell (and Sound) a Lot Like Christmas: The Interactive Effects of Ambient Scent and
Music in a Retail Setting.»
Defense attorney William Fick asked Swindon whether the files he discussed in court represented a «fly speck» of data held on the laptop, which was otherwise filled
with files like homework assignments and
pop music clips.
The South Korean
pop sensation has amassed well over 2 billion views on his original «Gangnam Style»
music video,
with nearly 9 million «likes» and just over 1 million «dislikes.»
Although she may be far from the twerking
pop music zeitgeist, the Québécois songstress is ending 2013
with superstar levels of spotlight.
Meanwhile, some
music fans and industry insiders are whispering about another potential reason why Swift might have chosen to return her
music to Spotify and other streaming services now: her long - running feud
with fellow
pop star Katy Perry.
At the phone's unveiling a week earlier, in a Shanghai basketball stadium
with blasting
pop music, Lei took the stage
with slicked black hair, bright white sneakers, and pressed blue jeans.
Over the past 50 years, Christianity and
pop music have blended, clashed and fought
with secular ideas.
P.S. I suppose the equivalent
pop music juxtaposition would be Annette May's lyrically stern (but musically delicious) «Vacation in Heaven,»
with Blur's outrageously banal «Girls and Boys.»
Yesterday,
music legend Prince died suddenly at the age of 57, and for the last 24 hours, celebrities and fans have been reflecting on their own interactions
with the infamously unique
pop icon.
Its worship services drew thousands
with pop / rock
music and solid preaching.
My Songbook, for example, is about to grapple
with what the ubiquity of love song in
pop music, going back many many decades, has gradually done to us.
I do agree
with «wm» that such a case seems more damning for typical TV (and I would add internet) use, than it would for typical
pop music use.
With their return to Tooth & Nail Records, the latest album from legendary
pop - punk outfit MXPX marks one of the most important alliances in faith - influenced
music.
All
music in some way is sacramental and all public performance has some religious character, but Jackson cultivated his image as a lay practitioner of
pop spirituality more than any performer in his market segment, through the soppy universalism of «We are the World» as well as through his identification
with the Jehovah's Witnesses and, according to recent rumor,
with Islam.
But
with sales of classical
music almost inconsequential, and
with both country and rock not growing as once expected, C —
Pop has attracted the attention of major players in the
music business.
Staci Orrico showed up in 2000
with a sound that approximated the current mainstream
pop - trend of Latin - tinged
pop music better than a lot of CCM, which was still trying to milk that ska cow.
posts on ALMOST FAMOUS, two on the SCHOOL OF ROCK, and an epic one on THE DOORS, I do think that among my list of
pop -
music films, THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO is the standout in terms of sheer cinematic achievement,
with only AMERICAN GRAFFITI giving it a run for the money.
Anyone familiar
with the more intellectual forms of
pop criticism (whether of
music or film) will recognize it as a parody of the Rolling Stone critic — a parody so good that, for a moment, one is almost convinced the piece is the real thing:
That was not exactly intentional, but had everything to do
with (white) disco fans simply permitting themselves to re-embrace the original raison d'etre of the whole Afro - American
pop music phenomenon: good - time dancing.
Following brief beginnings in
pop music, touring
with the likes of Buddy Holly and the Everly Brothers, Hamilton found fame through country
music and regularly topped the charts.
They turned on
music, and even though I was tired and hot, I danced in the kitchen to
pop songs, and I felt like barking
with laughter - crying because all three of them were dancing
with me, and their faces were upturned to me, they were having so much fun, and I thought, Oh, my God, I'm it, aren't I?
Making
pop music about boys loving boys and girls loving girls went lower onto the agenda and we got involved
with setting up the London Lighthouse, which was the first dedicated centre for people
with AIDS and HIV.
Through a complex algorithm, researchers determined that
pop music has gotten steadily louder over the years, but also more boring —
with less diversity between chords, tones and timbres.
And in the villages, the rice paddies are plowed while transistor radios next to the field broadcast the changing prices of oil — which influence fertilizer and marketing costs — along
with the latest
pop music from all over the world.
The contrast here
with mid-60s art
pop, a
music otherwise so similar, is telling:
with the significant exceptions of Pink Floyd and The Left Banke, all those bands were still somewhat connected to the R+B.
But the noughties
music scene had countless other retro sectors drawing heavily on the pre-eighties, from the freak folkers to neopyschedelic bands like Dungen to the garage - punk revival... The
pop present was caught in the crossfire of revival simultaneity,
with shrapnel from multiple different pasts whizzing past our ears at any given point.
In many ways, Kanye West's
music — and public persona — have become a sort of documentation of a spiritual, personal and artistic journey: College Dropout, Late Registration and Graduation are thematically tied to the beginnings of his career: going from a minimum - wage, literal college dropout struggling musician to a full - fledged
pop star
with an evolving style and influential platform.
It had indie
music cred
with mainstream
pop appeal.
«Now we'll spend that much on the whole recording and marketing of a record,» he says, reflecting on the massive changes that have taken place in the streaming era of
pop music, where artists releasing
music online can top the charts and traditionally powerhouse artist release albums unannounced, sometimes
with little marketing.
Other contemporary Christian musicians, as the
music industry designates them, have crossed over to mainstream
pop with some success.
Almost like saying that Katy Perry is only going into
pop music while she's still young, but
with the plan of returning to Christian
music later on, when her career now dies out.
In my Rock Songbook posts I have had on occasion to talk about various
pop music genres that aren't rock but which are commonly conflated
with it, contrasted
with it, etc., as I did
with the posts on disco, or
with various ones distinguishing R+B and rock n» roll from Rock.
Now rap obviously shares
with rock an emphasis on rebel attitude, and upon heroism — in that respect, Rock and rap are unlike all the sorts of
pop music, such as disco, that are primarily focused on dance - floor fun, but this similarity must not be made too much of.
And Easum is probably correct that much of the soft rock or
pop music that he advocates for worship has become a kind of generic musical product,
with no set of specifically worldly associations that would prevent its use in worship.
The Pentecostal pioneers of Christian
pop music don't let listeners down
with this...