Louis XIII and Napoleon Bonaparte must be turning in their graves. The Acadmie Franaise, France’s oldest and grandest cultural institution, has just elected to its midst a writer of pop lyrics.
The unlikely image of a 92-year-old war bride screaming The Clash’s “Should I Stay or Should I Go” into a microphone backed by an elderly chorus has already captivated live audiences around the world.
Every single college student has undoubtedly desired the caffeinated sweetness of tea and also the intoxicating bite of whiskey. Mixed together, however, should always be left in abstract lyrics.
Take a moment to read the lyrics of the Official Marine hymn and say a prayer of peace for those men and woman who are deployed in the conflicted middle east.
Although fans will most likely approve of Missy Higgins’ sophomore album, On a Clear Night, it is clear her artistic direction merely shifted sideways a bit instead of pushing her abilities forward. The echo left in our ears after The Sound of the White is that of an Australian woman gifted at writing her own lyrics, driving melancholy and deep piano chords, and using her unique voice to capture …
Yolanda “Yo-Yo” Whitaker made her debut on ‘It’s a Man’s World,’ a track on Ice Cube’s AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted album (1990), which pitted Cube’s misogynistic lyrics against Yo-Yo’s fiercely feminist point of view. On the track, when Cube asks: ‘Girl, what you trying to do?’
Welcome to this weeks edition of Sound Czech, Radio Pragues Czech language series in which you can learn interesting phrases through song lyrics. Todays phrase is Ne se odtud vymotme and comes from a song contained in the 1980s childrens story Hurvnek a Lupii - or Hurvnek and the Burglars part of the famous pejbl and Hurvnek series.
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