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NEWS ABOUT: lyrics

lyrics stories: 11 news summaries

 Arab Singer's 'Monkey' Lyric Enrages Nubians

Black Egyptians demand song be banned

Nov 18, 09 1:44 AM CST
(Newser) - Egypt's 2 million-strong black community has been outraged by a Lebanese pop song that refers to them as monkeys. The song by Haifa Wehbe, one of the Arab's world's biggest stars, includes a child singing: "Where is my teddy bear and the Nubian monkey?" Nubian lawyers have filed an... More »

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Egypt • racism • singer • lyrics • Haifa Wehbe

(Newser) - Some complain about the explicit lyrics in rap, but modern MCs have nothing on early-20th-century blues singers. Compared to them, “the members of NWA are levelheaded concerned citizens,” says Cracked. A sampling:
  • "A to Z Blues," Blind Willie McTell, 1956: "I'm gonna cut A,
... More »

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entertainment • music • murder • list • rap music • lyrics • blues • sexually explicit

OPINION


 The Worst Lyrics 
 of All Time 

'I feel real phoney when my name is Bill... or was that Phil' and more

Jun 3, 09 2:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Great music can inspire, but even the greats have thought up some atrocious lyrics. NME mines these gems:
  • "What else could I say? Everyone is gay." (Nirvana, All Apologies)
  • "I met a girl. She asked me my name. I told her what it was."
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entertainment • Bob Dylan • list • pop music • Kiss • Nirvana • Razorlight • Jennifer Lopez • worst songs • lyrics • R. Kelly • Rod Stewart





 Bob Dylan: Teen Plagiarist 


May 20, 09 12:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Was the young Bob Dylan a plagiarist? A piece that Christie’s auction house has been touting as Dylan’s first known poem turns out to be the lyrics to a country song by the late Hank Snow, Reuters reports. A 16-year-old Dylan submitted the pilfered verses, which tell the... More »

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entertainment • music • plagiarism • Bob Dylan • Christie's • poetry • folk • lyrics • Jay-ZTV • Hank Snow

 Eminem 'Nails' 
 Palin in New Song 

Rapper to Alaska guv: 'Say hello to my little friend'

Apr 7, 09 11:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Eminem’s back, and he’s got a political message: He wants to sleep with Sarah Palin. In the song We Made You, off his forthcoming album Relapse, Eminem asks for “my venom, an inhaler, and two Xenadrine/ And I’ll invite Sarah Palin out to dinner, then/Nail her.... More »

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Eminem • hip-hop • rapper • lyrics • Sarah Palin

Euro Song Contest Bars Georgia's Putin Putdown

Tune spoofing Russian PM was set for silly int'l tournament

Mar 10, 09 3:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - A veiled Georgian attack on Vladimir Putin has been barred from this year’s Eurovision, a flashy annual international music contest, RussiaToday reports. The disco tune contains the lyrics, “We don’t wanna put in/The negative mood/It’s killing the groove,” with the words “put in” sounding... More »

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Russia • music • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • contest • lyrics • Eurovision

 Lennon Lyrics Sell for $833K 

His handwritten sheet for "Give Peace a Chance" fetches a hefty sum

Jul 10, 08 6:45 PM CDT
(AP) - Christie's auction house has sold John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to "Give Peace a Chance" for $833,654. Lennon wrote and recorded the lyrics during his 1969 Bed-in protest for peace at the Queens Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. A pajamas-clad Lennon gave the handwritten sheet to a Montreal teenager, who's... More »

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Yoko Ono • John Lennon • lyrics

music review

 Beck's a Bit Gloomy in New CD 

Modern Guilt is a far cry from the artist's early days

Jul 8, 08 5:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Beck’s new 34-minute-long record is a “simmering cauldron of postmillennial tension,” writes Leah Greenblatt in Entertainment Weekly, its paranoid lyrics “way past Bummerville” and nearing “Apocalypse Heights.” But producer Danger Mouse still manages to find “thoughtfulness and texture…if not exactly levity” that... More »

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music • Beck • apocalypse • lyrics • Danger Mouse

West Point Boss Demands Hymn Changes for Her

Lyrics' 'men' and 'sons' are out of date, chief argues

May 16, 08 10:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - The head of West Point is calling for changes to the military academy's two most beloved songs to represent thousands of female graduates, the Times Herald-Record reports. References to "men" and "sons" in the Alma Mater and the 1902 hymn The Corps should be switched to something more... More »

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gender • US military • lyrics • alma mater • West Point

NEW RELEASE

Xiu Xiu's Women Breaks Ground

Intense indie musician drops electronics in 6th album

Jan 30, 08 2:06 PM CST
(Newser) - One of indie music’s most intense projects, Xiu Xiu is always innovating, and sixth album Women as Lovers is no slouch—at least its first half, says Tiny Mix Tapes’ Julie. Frontman Jamie Stewart has dropped electronics, hired a virtuoso drummer and reversed his recent “stasis.” But... More »

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electronics • Beatles • lyrics • indie pop • Xiu Xiu • Jamie Stewart • music review

NEW RELEASE

Ghostface Scores With Rehab

Wu-Tang hater brings the solo heat

Dec 6, 07 8:42 PM CST
(Newser) - Wu-Tang Clansman Ghostface Killah continues to spread sizable solo wings on his new LP, The Big Doe Rehab, which “finds him at his emotive best,” says AllHipHop’s Alvin Blanco in giving the record 8.5 of 10 stars. It has Ghost’s same practiced “world of... More »

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Wu Tang Clan • Ghostface Killah • lyrics • production • Fishscale • The Big Doe Rehab

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