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Post by bamafan on Jul 10, 2018 8:35:55 GMT -5
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Post by bamafan on Jul 10, 2018 9:23:46 GMT -5
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Jul 10, 2018 10:09:41 GMT -5
OTT but such good news! @cbsnews: “90 divers from around the world, the best of the best, came to save these boys, and in such a short period of time,” @biannagolodryga reports. It took three days to lead all 12 boys and their 25-year-old coach out of the cave cbsn.ws/2N2fzUQ twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1016648522853167105
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Post by skaschep on Jul 10, 2018 10:51:04 GMT -5
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Post by skaschep on Jul 10, 2018 10:51:28 GMT -5
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Post by skaschep on Jul 10, 2018 10:55:36 GMT -5
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Post by girldrummer on Jul 10, 2018 11:01:02 GMT -5
OTT but such good news! @cbsnews: “90 divers from around the world, the best of the best, came to save these boys, and in such a short period of time,” @biannagolodryga reports. It took three days to lead all 12 boys and their 25-year-old coach out of the cave cbsn.ws/2N2fzUQ What an amazing rescue! My heart was breaking for those parents. Thank God they're safe.
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Post by katycake on Jul 10, 2018 11:04:20 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2018 11:04:36 GMT -5
OT about Sam Smith . . . I ran across this article in the Huffington Post about Sam Smith dated Sept 18, 2017. Interesting take on Sam Smith's music and image, "the eternal sad gay boy." The male writer, a "radical queer feminist" is critical of this image. He states that SS is the most successful gay man on the charts since Elton 20 years ago. Worth reading the entire article in view of recent discussion of what makes people listen to and buy music, an artist finding his voice, etc. Below are a few lines. . . .
Sam Smith and the Sad Gay Boys It’s also worth noting that Smith is the most successful gay man on the charts since Elton John, who last cracked the top ten twenty years ago with his tribute single to Princess Diana, “Candle in the Wind 1997”. Without a doubt, Smith has a larger mainstream reach than his contemporaries - take Years & Years, who had success in the UK but never crossed over - and has “mainstreamed” the idea of an openly gay singer talking about his openly gay relationships on openly gay records. . .. . .
But what is hard to ignore in Smith’s music - and, indeed, what made it so ubiquitous - is its consistent, aching loneliness. Even Adele’s latest album, the multi-platinum 25, sounded more upbeat. Smith has built his musical brand on a down-trodden, lovelorn innocence packaged with a powerhouse of a voice that bends perfectly to bear the weight of every emotion his songs carry. His most well-known hit, “Stay With Me”, is so resonant largely in part to his vocal delivery: he sings every background vocal on the song, mixing them to sound like one big lonely church choir.
Perhaps all of this success has made Smith decide not to mess with the winning formula, because his next record is shaping up to be more of the same isolation and loneliness that we saw before.
. . . .. . . Moreover, he projects what appears to be a meticulously crafted image of perpetual isolation and loneliness: the eternal sad gay boy. Where Elton John and George Michael were gay men who knew how to have a good time, how to mix the social isolation and fierce vivacity many gay men are all too familiar with, Smith has parked his musical camper van firmly in the heartbreak territory. ....... In a cultural moment where the gains of the past few years seem on the cusp of evaporating, this kind of self-pitying - and, dare I say, self-centered - melancholy is the last thing we need.
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Jul 10, 2018 12:04:50 GMT -5
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