Nope. "My Christian Dior" is already a volta after the first two lines; can't pre-empt it. And the unexpected rhyme is another volta--brings it home, just like the Knicks in the fourth quarter. That singsongy scheme of yours would ruin the whole effect.
Farm fresh has a whole different meaning in the Middle East. Picking out vegetables for my smoothie that just arrived at the market by horse, straight from the farm.
Barring several scientific breakthroughs and assuming continuity of the universe past ~2100 there will be a day sometime in the future when LeBron James and I will technically be equally good at basketball. Humbling to think about
Orange production in Florida has collapsed over 95% in less than 25 years. 100% of trees are now infected with a disease officially deemed “incurable.”
Who killed the Florida orange? My investigation, in @slate, into the lost empire of the old citrus state.
Frederick Wiseman changed the way we see the world. From the classrooms of High School to the corridors of Hospital, he turned his camera on the institutions that shape us — inviting us to look closer, sit longer & confront truth with empathy. May his memory be a blessing.
If you throw a dart at Frederick Wiseman's filmography, the movie you land on has a 60% chance of being so good that if it was the only film he ever made, he would still be among the greatest directors ever. He made 49 feature films.
The summer of 2020 was the worst period of my life. I watched In Jackson Heights and felt as if I'd been struck by lightning. Some days I told myself I couldn't end it before watching all of his films. Lucky for me there were so many of them.
I would add that in "Upside Down," we don't just anticipate the b-flat major because of the ii V (or i IV) vamp. We actually already hear it in passing within the vamp! Makes the minor version hit that much harder.
This is great. There should be a place for music theory in music criticism. So often, the emotional effect of a pop song depends on its composition prompting the ear to expect something, and then subverting that expectation in different ways. Theory illuminates this.
I've wanted to do this for a while: technical writing about songs (naming chords, &c) that is legible to non-technical readers, put together with more broadly interpretive criticism in hopes of getting to a deeper understanding of what the music is doing https://t.co/mVf8e8kmB5
On this first day of the Mamdani era, may I recommend 2015's In Jackson Heights, a film about, among other things, immigration, policing, gentrification, religion, lgbtq rights, community organizing, the world cup, real estate capital, local governance, and taxi cab drivers.