Perhaps West's seven-song statement will spark a shift in conceptions of what an album should be.
The song "Mission Statement" emulates the style of Crosby, Stills & Nash, with the lyrics citing a series of corporate buzzwords and executive jargon.
It will all happen at 12.01am local time "here, there and everywhere", according to a heavily Beatles song-referencing statement on the band's official website, which ends: "Happy Crimble, with love from us to you".
Visconti says he wasn't surprised when Bowie contacted him about recording two years ago, despite the fact that the singer had told him barely a year before that he had no interest in making more music and furthermore hadn't written any songs, a statement he now thinks was a fib.
CAETANO VELOSO -- For most of the last decade, this Brazilian singer-songwriter has issued songs and statements that address politics, semantics and the life of the artist.
After reports that Mr. Banton signed the "reggae compassionate act" in 2007, a pledge to refrain from anti-gay songs and statements, he denied having signed it.
Devotional songs and statements, however, persistently deny all mechanical views of divine exchanges, insisting that humans have nothing to give, that everything belongs to God, and that no truly religious action should ever be performed instrumentally.
His pianistic punctuation helped shape each song into a statement.
Asked by his lawyer whether he considered the song a political statement, Tupac said, "Yes. . . .
In the song's second statement, after Mr. Musiker's solo, their voices entwined in a grand upward spiral.
That heart belonged to Raj Kapoor, and his song — a simple statement of patriotism in a globalizing world — struck a chord with audiences in the young Indian republic when it appeared in "Shree 420" (1955).
