The real issue is that there is extremely low likelihood that the speculations of the untrained, on a topic almost pathologically riddled by dynamic considerations and feedback effects, will offer anything new.
I've never been a fan of Mariah, and was kind of agin her for a long time due to some very low-rent, low-motivated disinfo put out by a brit music mag back in the day (when I still believed what they said), but she is great in Precious, playing very much against type, or at least the type she's been typecast as. But you will know that already. Everybody does, it seems. Just takes me a while to catch up, but I did think she was very good in that film.
Publically fighting with Eminem, though, through the medium of published songs, available for download or hardcopy purchase? This could end both their careers ...
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Ivor Cutler - Looking For Truth With A Pin
Focus - Hocus Pocus
Joe Cocker - I'll Cry Instead
Direct link - Momus - "the Seventh wife Of Henry The Eighth." I like to think of it as a satire on the voting public, but it probably is, and is intended to be, more contentious than that.
"The universe is 40 billion light years across and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. That is the position of the universe with regard to human life."
Youtube notes. This is the oldest Chicago footage in the collection. It was recorded on August 31, 1969 (four months after their debut album was released). This was filmed at the Texas Motor Speedway in Lewisville, TX (just outside Dallas) as the band was participating in the Texas International Pop Festival. It's estimated that between 100,000-150,000 attended this 3 day festival. You'll notice that Walt Parazaider has a sub in this footage. This old hippie footage always had a tendency to have the video and the audio out of sync for "artistic purposes". I wish they hadn't done this, but it's still classic footage.
"O Oysters," said the Carpenter, "You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none-- And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one.