"Fame – puts you where things are hollow…" sang Bowie, reflecting the increasing darkness of his personal life, the sense of alienation that celebrity had amplified.
"I don't want to follow on a path that makes me hollow," she sings in tight-lipped determination on the apparent breakup song "Early in the Morning".
Imagery of decay, debility and dejection pervade the record: "Here am I/Not quite dead/My body left to rot in a hollow tree," Mr. Bowie sings on the title track.
Impeccably dressed in white shirt, black trousers and waistcoat, the Duke was a hollow man who sang songs of romance with an agonised intensity, yet felt nothing—"ice masquerading as fire".
(D ) Firing rates of AIV neurons during singing vs non-singing (antidromically identified neurons, hollow circles; non-identified AIV neurons, filled circles).
She would walk the darkest hollows on the coldest nights, singing Scotch-Irish lullabies to Plutina's lost baby.
M.M. Pochapin, Inc. expects to sell to the American Legion marchers, through Legion posts and regular distributors, more than 100,000 kazoo canes and croonets; kazoo canes are hollow instruments through which you sing, or scream, as you march, and croonets are the same device in the shape of toy saxophones, trombones, etc.
But even when singing about being "drawn and hollow" during the unsettling sway of When Your Number Isn't Up, his barbed-wire baritone sounds richer than ever.
Krgin also singled out Araya for criticism, and called the vocalist a "hollow shell of his former self, boasting a singing style that is monotonous, devoid of creativity and at times virtually unlistenable".
"Yeah, I say, I can consume what I want now," she sings, and it sounds like a hollow victory.
