It's quite a distance from Ms. Seidelman's punk-rock comedy "Desperately Seeking Susan" (1985), which starred Madonna as a free-spirited pop tart, to the stiff-jointed worlds of her 2006 film, "Boynton Beach Club," set in a Florida retirement community, and "The Hot Flashes".
He wasn't always the maverick-spirited pop polymorph some are quick to paint him as he arguably blossomed fullest beside compatible artists, visionaries and engineers, like Ken Scott, Brian Eno, Tony Visconti, and Nile Rodgers.
The ever-spirited pop star, who got her fourth-ever No. 1 radio single this year with "Just Give Me a Reason," will receive the publication's Woman of the Year award at its Women in Music event on Dec. 10 in New York. .
This is an overly methodical and heavy-spirited movie — pop without rapture.
But the feeling of early-aughts ensemble indie can be found on the affectionate and spirited chamber-pop record "Belong," from the Brooklyn band San Fermin.
The lead single off it, "Girl You Look Amazing," is a spirited electro-pop number that finds Atkins putting aside her usual lavish arrangements to render disco with a dark side.
A youthful Hopkins, in a spirited turn, pops off some of the best insults.
A couple of years ago a spirited debate popped up on my Facebook page about the correct approach to preparing fava beans.
He stopped the flow with a spirited medley of pop tunes culminating with his signature, "Beat It" by Michael Jackson.
Were she not making slick, spirited Friday-night pop like this, she'd be at a Vodka Revs necking Mai Tai shooters and showing strangers she's got your name tattooed on her arse.
