A soft melody with an easy tempo can work.
The dozen or so people in the folding chairs did not quite know what to do when 10 a.m. finally rolled around and the sound system stopped playing soft, up-tempo jazz and started playing "The Star-Spangled Banner".
"That's Why You're Beautiful" is a slow-tempo soft rock and rock power ballad, which consists of a "grungy" guitar riff and stuterring drums.
The song is considered low on arousal with its slow tempo and soft vocals, it has a negative valence because of its sad lyrics, and it rates high on depth because of the complex emotion conveyed by the harmony and Mitchell's expressiveness.
In recent times, Bley has sounded more like a straightahead jazz composer than the quirkily Nino Rota-like impressionist of earlier years, and there are plenty of gently unfolding mid-tempo swingers, soft Latin grooves and riffy finales here.
Either way, with its lilting tempo, deviant soft-pop songs like "Well" and "De Papel" and a few skewed disco-not-disco numbers, this is the album Depeche Mode should have released instead of that overwrought goth cliché.
Those adventures should've helped push Braxton's music into the realm of full-on camp, but on her new disc, "Pulse," the singer mostly sticks to her trusty album architecture of scorching dance songs, soft-focused up-tempo ballads and "Un-Break My Heart -style tear-jerkers witHeart -styleoo over-tear-jerkers
It is hard to imagine the Knicks, who played such soft defense Friday night, dictating tempo in a series against the Nets.
Jerry Sorell '50 *51: You are in charge of shaping the music, the expressions, you know: where are the softs and the louds, the tempo, speeding up, slowing down.
But this artist is certainly no one-trick wonder as shown in the sequencing of this album, which moves from soft folk to more poppy, up-tempo tunes.
