Even so, the winning fluidity in the group's rendering of the big, seductive themes, and the players' attention to Schubert's nuanced dynamics, proved the reading's more memorable qualities.
Several contemporary R&B musicians, such as Prince, D'Angelo, and R. Kelly, were greatly influenced by its vintage sound and seductive themes, incorporating much of Gaye's musical style into their music.
For Heather Phares of Allmusic, the tune is a highlight of the album: while the "Latin Rhythm Instrumental" "[reflects] the '60s' ongoing fascination with exotica and Latin pop", the lyrical version "could be a kissing cousin to seductive spy themes like 'Goldfinger'".
The music is seductive, and the themes bracing: depression, isolation and lost love.
There's a lot of blue and purple, and the detailing is endlessly intricate and seductive, appropriate given the theme of sirens.
FOR months, Burger King has sought to stimulate flagging sales of its fast fare with a seductive appeal carrying the theme "Got the urge?" Yesterday, it was Burger King that had the urge -- the same old urge the company has had so often, to place the creative duties for its general market advertising account in review.
Poussin certainly applied that principle throughout much of his career, typically employing discordant colour harmonies for tragic themes and seductive ones for tender and lyrical subjects.
Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, maker of teasingly enigmatic films, reached wide attention when his Loong Boonmee raleuk chat (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives), a seductive dreamlike fantasia on themes of spiritualism and rebirth, won the coveted Palme d'Or at Cannes.
