Musiq soulchild love lord1/2/2023 ![]() The track is a stark, synthetic product of Atlanta producers Dru Castro and the duo known as BlacKKeyz and as such, an odd fit for a chivalrous soul crooner from Philadelphia. On “Radio,” the lead single from his fifth album, Musiq Soulchild tests out his hip-hop swagger over a beat scaled for the club floor. Portuondo seizes the present as well as the past. Portuondo’s unplugged but futuristic version of the Cuban lullaby “Drume Negrita” with a lean bass line, bata drums alluding to ancient santería and hovering overdubbed vocal harmonies from the Cameroonian singer Richard Bona Ms. The album has lapses: a well-meaning duet with a granddaughter, some gooey string arrangements, some sappy ballads. Portuondo still draws on Cuban songwriters like Pablo Milanés, who sings a duet with her on his “Ámame Como Soy.” But she also looks toward Brazil the venerated Brazilian songwriter Chico Buarque joins her on the philosophical “O Que Será,” a Spanish translation of his “A Flor da Terra.” The title song, “Gracias,” is by Jorge Drexler, from Uruguay. As she sings about “pain, enormous pain, eternal pain” in “Vuela Pena” (“Fly Away Pain”), a bolero undercurrent surfaces and dissolves into rippling piano and guitar arpeggios. On “Gracias” the songs often look back with fondness or melancholy. It is rich, shapely, dynamic and still sultry, with only an occasional foray into the wide vibrato of an older generation. She is 78, but her voice rarely reveals her age. Portuondo’s Cuban roots still show, “Gracias” is her international album. Omara Portuondo, a celebrated singer in Cuba who was discovered worldwide via the Buena Vista Social Club, has concentrated on vintage-style Cuban music, particularly boleros, in her expanded career over the last decade. Paging Kanye West: Please phone home, Common needs you. On that last track Common tries to reassert his legacy: “They say he’s a radical/He don’t fit the game.” But just a moment later he’s discussing Michael Vick and Nelson Mandela in almost the same breath even his social conscience has been muddled. The Neptunes have created beats better suited to a far more enthusiastic and versatile M.C.: shimmering, reverb-thick electro on the title track sauntering lite-soul redolent of A Tribe Called Quest on “Punch Drunk Love” sensational, woozy, blaring horns on “Gladiator.” But even those who can look past the topical dissonance will be confronted with the musical dissonance. “Your physique brings out my freak,” he teases, toothlessly, on “Sex 4 Suga.” On “Announcement” he brings up his corporate pitchman work: “Freestyle paid off, so Lincoln paid me/Now we can push more whips” cars, he means “than slavery.” It’s an unfortunate play on words.Ĭommon has long made politeness his art form acolytes tend to overlook tracks like the slightly garish “Heidi Hoe,” from his 1992 debut album “Can I Borrow a Dollar?” so for hip-hop’s values voters the more salacious songs here will verge on sacrilege. ![]() Worse, Common is at his least imaginative here. He has become less nimble with age (he’s now 36), and there’s hardly any ease left in his locution, even when borrowing phrasings from Jay-Z, the Notorious B.I.G., Greg Nice or the Sugarhill Gang. The Neptunes, who produce seven of the 10 songs here, treat Common as an obstacle to be worked around, which, in fairness, he is. Williams’s blunt-force id with Common’s casual gravity. Pharrell Williams of the Neptunes is the executive producer here, and he has no ambivalence toward pleasure whatsoever. Those albums were mature, eclectic and subtle. But he has also been a self-righteous rapper, though a musically palatable one, thanks especially to Kanye West, who produced the bulk of his two most recent albums, “Be” from 2005, and last year’s “Finding Forever.” For years he has been a bohemian sex symbol, linked with Erykah Badu, Serena Williams and others. But on “Universal Mind Control,” his eighth album, he takes on his most ambitious role yet: someone who enjoys having fun.Ĭommon has long had a complicated relationship with pleasure. The rapper Common has been dabbling in acting lately, with small but memorable roles in “Smokin’ Aces” and “American Gangster.” In the coming film based on the DC Comics superhero cabal the Justice League he will play Green Lantern.
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Tom and jerry episodes 11/2/2023 ![]() One of the characteristics of the cartoon is that even though Tom and Jerry are very expressive through their facial expressions and the sound effects, they almost never speak, which will make them be a little mysterious, and all kids wonder which is their voices, and that can be heard only in 2 or 3 episodes through the Cartoon Network series. Tom and Jerry have episodes while they go hunting in the woods, while they go fishing on a boat or even on vacation on cruises and in RVs, which will bring new adventures in the two Cartoon Network animal characters are going to have new missions and new funny challenges in which they fight and maybe even become better friends because if they are apart, they are sad and cannot wait to meet again. Jerry lives in the walls of the house, and you can see that the walls will almost always be filled with grenades and fireworks so that he can come out of the walls and Tom to trap him.Īs we already said, most of the action of the cartoon is going to be inside the house, but there are special episodes in which you can see that they are often leaving the house not only in the backyard, where you are going to meet with new characters like dogs, other cats, and birds. ![]() You will often see that Tom is using a lot of weapons in the adventures and all the attacks that he is trying to do on Jerry, and these shooting weapons like rifles, snipers, bazookas or pistols to bow and arrows, fireworks, firecrackers, and even hand weapons like hammers, axes, traps and even poison that will be used just to stop the little mouse to keep on coming back inside the house. This cartoon is known for being violent because it was made through the Cold War and even the Pearl Harbor attacks, and the publishers wanted to get kids used to what was happening on the streets of their cities. Now that you know what the series is all about, you can start going inside the story even more, and start to learn all of the characters and little details that you can find only inside the episodes and our games that we have just started publishing from Cartoon Network and Boomerang. Even though Tom and Jerry are enemies through the series, there are plenty of episodes in which they are playing together and they are real friends. Jerry is going to be a tough nut to crack, because dear kids you will see that he is going to be one step in front of the cat that is chasing him and has all kinds of plans to trap him, and for him to escape each and every time, you will see that things are going to be broken, like china, walls, and furniture through the entire house. Like in any other battle, there's going to be collateral damage, and that's going to be mostly the house being destroyed during the chase of Jerry by Tom, and you will see that there's going to be explosions, traps, and even water through the entire house making it a big water tank in order for Tom to have a better chance to catch his nemesis. It's a real battle between the two animal characters to show which one of them is going to be the smartest, and for that, you will see that in each episode, there's a new battle from the war between the cat and the mouse. Most of the action of the series is happening inside a house, where the cat - Tom and the mouse - Jerry live together, even though Tom is trying to catch Jerry as his owner wants too since episode 1 because mice are not welcomed in the household of most houses in the world, but Jerry turns out to be a very good adversary for Tom the cat because he is smart, sneaky and in some episodes he is going to be very lucky and he goes free from Tom's attacks. This story is very popular throughout the entire world, and it was displayed on Cartoon Network, where kids that are wanting to watch funny episodes and see how many interesting stories and exposed are inside the series, and you will learn that it's an American animated series, and it's based on a real-life story because everybody knows that cats are chasing mice, and you will see that Tom is going to be the cat, and Jerry is going to be the mouse through the series. You can see that there's going to be a very funny and interesting cartoon, based in America during the cold war, and the two animal characters are going to have interesting tellings through their episodes and Cartoon Network games that we are going to start publishing inside the Tom and Jerry games category that we are just publishing today here on our website. ![]() Animal stories are very popular, and the Tom and Jerry cartoon that aired on Cartoon Network is one of the best and known all around the world, in which the main characters are going a cat and a mouse, and you will see that in each cartoon episode on Cartoon Network, you will see that the cat is chasing the mouse, and you will manage to help each of them win points through our games. AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |