While the United States looks to be progressing into a slick rhythm — it has scored eight goals in its last three games (one was a friendly) — Mexico seems stunted, struggling to produce three goals in six qualifiers and, perhaps more surprisingly, often appearing to be outplayed.
Wearing a hipster hat, a jacket and a T-shirt with a tuxedo design, Mr. Timberlake ripped through an pulsating hour of his slick rhythm & blues, doing a mix of older hits and songs from his new album, "The 20/20 Experience," which will be on Tuesday.
Hip-hop — with its novel sounds and its complexly rhymed, free-associative lyrics — now feeds into Mr. Gartside's music along with the yearning, harmonically convoluted ballads of Brian Wilson, the ebullience and structural experiments of the Beatles, the slick rhythm tracks of dance music and R&B, touches of reggae and speculations about meaning and identity, including pop's racial subtexts.
In an effort to invoke the inspiration of records they used to sample, the duo have built tracks up with live musicians, notably collaborating with Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers, whose slick, syncopated rhythm slices shine amid the plush synthesizers.
With the disc jockey Frankie Crocker as program director, WBLS under Inner City pioneered what Mr. Crocker christened urban contemporary radio: a slick blend of rhythm-and-blues, dance music and other genres designed to appeal to young listeners across racial lines.
Edgar picked up Johnson's debut release, Channel 18, an EP of six deep, four-to-the-floor tracks that make inventive use of samples with slick and shuffling rhythms.
From its early origins in Panama, by the mid-1980s, the music had migrated to Puerto Rico, where it picked up the hip-hop influence which eventually turned it into the slick hybrid of dancehall rhythms and Spanish rapping that it is today.
This is pop, and as pop, Mirrorwriting showcases a slick but uninventive pastiche of rhythm and soul.
But the visitors, without a win since September, had the better of the opening exchanges with the Saints struggling to build up any rhythm on a slick pitch in torrential rain.
And yes, they happen to wind up convincing you that "Frankie and Johnny," which expertly finds pangs of existential loneliness within the rhythms of a slick commercial comedy, is not a small play (2 20).
And yes, they happen to wind up convincing you that "Frankie and Johnny," which expertly finds pangs of existential loneliness within the rhythms of a slick commercial comedy, is not a small play, after all (2 20).
