Feather by feather it comes undone, subsisting somehow or other, while its cousins the sparrows, in triumphant squadrons, graciously hop about, stealing crumbs from students' sandwiches on the wing, and landing on the blue whale in the fountain.
"Crazy in Love" is the best song on "Dangerously in Love" (the album is, oddly enough, named after an old Destiny's Child song); it's a simple, irresistible combination of triumphant horns and a wicked hip-hop beat.
"Triumphant (Get 'Em)" is a midtempo R&B and hip hop ballad that "mixes a soft beat with piano accompaniment".
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Triumphant music filled the arena.
Triumphant Progress of the Rebels.
It's a high-octane recreation of the troubled, triumphant life and times of West Coast hip-hop pioneers NWA.
But that's an outmoded value in contemporary hip-hop, which skews heavily toward the triumphant, the fantastical and the unattainable — Drake and 2 Chainz talking about stealing girlfriends, Rick Ross boasting about wealth and so on.
It's unerringly odd, more simpatico with the downward-spiral years of the Doors or the triumphant flamboyance of Queen, filtered through a softer version of the hip-hop-inflected rock that made early N.E.R.D. albums so invigorating.
The plot involves five sets of twins, countless mistaken identities and unlikely coincidences, cross-dressing, bed-hopping and a final scene so incestuously erotic that it is more triumphant than disturbing (I'll say no more).
Here, the drooping chorus of "Broook-lyn, Broook-lyn" — half hip-hop, half Gregorian chant — throbs faintly from the arena's core, mournful and triumphant at once.
