They adulterate the events of her life with song, dance, imagery, and oddball costumes.
The contrast between song and imagery sends chills up my spine every time.
The continuing popularity of British songs and imagery, if not the British flag, among England fans underlines this.
Elysa Gardner of USA Today said that "self-assurance is evident on a tune on B'Day called 'Freakum Dress'" while another review by the staff members of the same magazine complimented the songs sexual imagery stating: "When Ms. Bootylicious [Knowles] sings of squeezing that jelly into a 'Freakum Dress', the imagination runs wilder than any video would.
The medley of soul-stirring songs, haunting imagery and at times cryptic poetry -- much of it the words of Warsan Shire -- show both the complexity of Bey as an artist and of these issues themselves, including infidelity, grief, love, joy, relationships, womanhood and blackness. .
Henderson continued that the song conjured the imagery of a disturbed vision of hell, and in a warped sense the song seemed more forward-thinking to him and less of a message, "than the 'gay = great' equation at the heart of 'Born This Way'".
But the greater impression is emotional: Mr. Picker fills these songs with uncomfortable imagery, reliving his mother's pain and imagining her golden transfiguration.
While others chose to respond to Thatcherism with escapist songs and consumerist imagery, I was unable to escape the reality that she had created.
(Is it an accident that two songs include Christmas imagery?) Mr. Merritt sang one of these, the Brian Wilsonesque ballad "I Don't Know What to Say," with deadpan glumness, right up to the song's precipitous end.
John Fordham Milagres Gentle Beast Hot off the Brooklyn production line of perfect pop, Kyle Wilson's terrific, keyboard-driven quintet are a blissful fusion of Morrissey, Wild Beasts and Sparks, with songs full of imagery to lose yourself in.
