Many of the film's storytelling beats seems drawn perhaps a little too closely from "The Long Goodbye," Raymond Chandler's elegiac detective novel adapted into a classic by Robert Altman.
Her beat seemed blurred; the orchestra's coordination, approximate.
'Babylon Sisters' has this dark mood to it, and the beat seemed to accentuate the floating dark mood that the song required".
Even to a layman's eye the beat seemed weak, and parts of the left ventricle did not move when they should have been pumping.
"Original Pirate Material" was made up of monologues, but it was also an album of club tracks; sometimes the beats seemed to be merely backdrops for the lyrics, but sometimes it was the other way around.
In the Mozart, this meant treating each phrase with such specific attention, with careful details of phrasing and constant gentle, nearly impalpable tugs of rubato, that the beat seemed at times almost irregular.
Yet during the first-movement development section, Mr. Dudamel wrenched the music every which way, and there were scrappy moments, as when the brass players, trying to fit a syncopated riff into the overall beat, seemed to struggle to find it.
That hypocrisy — professing to defend women while secretly, according to The New Yorker article, beating them — seemed particularly rank.
Any repeating beat seems to have that effect in the aftermath of such a music-filled fiesta.
The beat seems to be an inexpensive drum machine trying to imitate an automatic weapon, treated with a lot of reverb.
