So did the nonprofit organization that he built, the Songs of Love Foundation, whose name echoes lyrics once written by his twin brother, Julio, who committed suicide in 1984.
"Diamonds are still a girl's best friend," she added, echoing the lyrics from the stage and film versions of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," a song that made Harry Winston a household name.
Set to "Jago Delhi Jago," ("Rise Delhi Rise") a song composed for the event that urges women to stand up to silence and oppression, the dance routine closely echoes the lyrics.
The remarks echo the lyrics of Lupe's song, "American Terrorist," from his 2006 release Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor.
He echoed my lyric "sisters" with his own lyrical choice "brothers" (Will has brothers, I have sisters).
O'Keefe's lyrics, echoing those of "West Side Story" 's star-crossed lovers, brilliantly travesty the masochism of the traditional love song, with its romantic notions of symbiosis and suffering without reward.
The music fades away with the final line of the lyrics echoing through the theater: "Roll us both down a mountain / And I'm sure the fat man would win" -- as a massive wave of applause slowly dies away.].
The 350-strong crowd don't just sing along but echo every lyric, leaving the harmonies of her four-piece band redundant.
She Is Beyond Good and Evil remains utterly unique, utterly spellbinding: an existential love song that posits a Nietzscheian worldview over a dub-funk maelstrom that perfectly echoes the lyric's fraught articulation of all-consuming desire.
Ms. Perry wasn't happy when she saw the small desert between her and her seat — "I don't want sand in my stilettos," she said, pouting, echoing one of her lyrics — but she is just a regular girl gone big, so she gamely tottered across the sand in her four-inch platforms, the heels disappearing with each step.
