Instead he renders the song with a goofy delicacy; his workingman's suavity and generosity carry the day.
The song also marked the singing debut of Abhay Deol, who rendered the song along with the other two leads, Hrithik Roshan and Farhan Akhtar.
Either way, the room seemed to come alive when Ms. Friedberger arrived at the song's pleasingly conventional chorus: "She means nothing to me now/I tell myself that every day".
Ms. Ghostley's big moment was her rendering of the song "The Boston Beguine," a sendup of proper Bostonians.
The mixed greens were crispy, the bacon expertly rendered, the dressing a pleasingly sharp garlic aioli.
The dancers, who alternated between synchronized hip-hop aerobics and standing at attention like soldiers, made great, simple theater; Santogold's songs pleasingly integrate hip-hop, dancehall and 1980s rock.
He sang with a plangency rivaling Mr. Hvorostovsky's own, and rendered the love songs beautifully.
Sometimes built on heavy, repetitive beats, and sometimes couched in Beatle-esque psychedelia, the songs are vivid, pleasingly visceral and often engagingly harmonized, with amusingly off-kilter lyrics.
As the song intensifies, the cells initially rendered in grayscale become supercharged with color.
Maybe it's the way this song sounds pleasingly like an android that's come to life but gone into meltdown shortly after.
Also, the title of the song "Little Deuce Coupe" was incorrectly rendered.
