lyrics fraught with meaning sumber tones the title track to talk a try makes twenty eight thousand album. eternity. on the band's twelfth studio album sing a different look so recounts his life in twelve songs. also notes that. the hope is of course to maybe come to a kind of self ethnologist like a field study of one's own life and of the same charge to create a portrait of society and present something in which listeners can recognize something of themselves. you know as if it's like the death of. the band which took its name from a japanese games console has been around for twenty five years now. the three founding members now live in berlin but singer dick for looks so and bassist john miller first met while studying law in hamburg. have you know it's good that we met at a student orientation course at the university where we were both wandering around disoriented we spotted each other and for our there's someone who looks like me and not like everyone else it was love at first sight. they too eventually dropped out of university to devote all their time to music their aspirations ly

motioning the lyrics and feelinm the rh >> then you have the rhythm of the music to deal with.hallenging and an art form. orter: it requires lots of prep work. >> we get ds lthe lyrics and th music and practice, practice. >> reporter: as she learned everything goes according to plan. >> with everybody sha, there's surprise song that we didn't have a t chance practice. it's important that we can hear the vocals. >> reporter: whether it's blues, rap, rock and roll, each has its set of channels. >> i had a young lady at the country show las year and she needed my services. she was just loving the band and loving that she could see the words to the mus that she loved. it was very rewarding. rding.e >>> it's all about the head to head battle on nbc world of dance. d.c. based jam project group has got a win or go home. in the duel round competitors get to choose their opponent. you can watch the jam project battle it out tonight at 8:00 right here on nbc 4. >>> happening tonight, beyonce and jay-z hit the stage in the u.s. the power couple bringing their on the run 2 tour to the stat

we've already heard from numerous soca fans from around the world sharing some of their favorite lyrics from my last song take a look. or. see here all of. the. down the narrative watching. the. c word. with. this. give it to me and our work i'll give it to me. give it to me and our gal give it to me in a low. light hearted. i mean good voice you will get a hearing on her life moment but first what you were singing yes. little clips of singing that was so can you say yes if people are just listening right now thinking what is. that would you say i would say this is the land of east indian and african rhythm and this is trimble yes there's so much more to it than just blending and fusion we have more of music that does that as a world but there's a particular story to how this happened here family is part of that story definitely very instrumental my grandfather's in the russia also known as lord shorty and he was the one that started to commune sick in trinidad and in the caribbean before there was so there was calypso and he felt like there was a divide between the east indian and the

that rock lyrics and videos are crossing the line into trash and smut. >> we are asking the recordingrtists who were pushing boundaries in different ways were bringing those messages and images into our homes. and that provided a political opportunity to push back against it. >> we can say they're senators' wives, ooh, and they're messing around in washington. but they obviously have some real concerns. there's a lot that they do that i applaud because they are taking responsibility as citizens. >> i brought along two videos which i believe are representative of the kind of presentation that have caused the furor. ♪ got it bad, got it bad, got it bad ♪ ♪ i'm hot for teacher ♪ i've got it bad, so bad >> who's going to decide what's a sexual content of a lyric? who's going to decide what is obscene? same housewives who are spearheading the movement? >> in all candor, i would tell you it's outrageous filth and that if i could find some way constitutionally to do away with it i would. >> fans felt i'm capable of making my own decisions about the music i want to listen, to i don't need tip

the original lyrics were slightly more poetic. in place three medlock into deep blue by italian musician domenico more don't go better known as a. this song is about newfound love and was italy's nine hundred fifty eight entry into the euro vision song contest but only came third but then it went on to storm the u.s. charts securing long term golden oldies status. a firm favorite in the stadium new versions are constantly cropping up to this well known to. sucker fans aren't exactly famous for their tolerance of homosexuals but that's originally what this song was all about longing for a free life as a gay person in san francisco. thanks second place going west by the village people the song wasn't an instant commercial success it got its first real break when the openly gay british pop duo pet shop boys released a dance cover. in soccer fans pride themselves on being real men. but this song can open the floodgates. when things aren't going well it's a melody fans take solace in. oh at number one this song for anthem to beat all s

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and novelist guy, do you consider yourself pretty lyrical in what you do and say?”times i have a few lyrics that seem very basic but they may resonate with someone for yea rs later they may resonate with someone for years later and they realise what i am really talking about. the reason it is called novelist guy is a lot of people know me as, yeah, that is that novelist guy. i read something, and interview you had done, and you said, i'm not trying to be the next stormzy. i guess that is the obvious comparison, which may be irritating? it is not irritating, because stormzy is a great inspiration to me. a very nice person but i make different music to him, even though we both come under grime. you can never be another person, only yourself. that was novelist. we have simon mccoy at 2pm. now with the weather forecast here is the man known as weather forecaster. you have to head to the coast if you wa nt you have to head to the coast if you want something pressure. it is boiling. probably in the next couple of hours we will be hitting the mid—30s. the wind is spinning

and that is why i changed the lyrics because this guy says that he's in georgia but he wanted to shows in syracuse what one of the storms down there was like. the person that posted the video said that lightning strikes hit just a few feet away them after they started. it looked like the lightning hit the ground not far from him. now this guy in china had a serious 6:00 a.m. wakeup call. he's riding his bike down the street -- whoa! >> what was that? >> this guy was riding his bike past a restaurant. authorities say somebody who worked at that restaurant failed to turn a gas cylinder off the night before and in the morning, it went boom. >> that's like a boom went off. looks like somebody planted a bomb inside that restaurant and even the explosion looks like it. >> it's pretty close to it. >> the police say there were no other injuries, but you can see there was damage to the store's around the restaurant. with all that carnage its shocking that nobody else was hurt. >> you know what else is shocking? this? that's a utility pole that had a short circuit. that was a 10,000 bolt distri

to think about lyrics, it's endless. okay, so, "you may say i'm a dreamer, but not the only one." eh? no, i don't think so. "i found the greatest love of all inside me." no. "i'm just beautiful me" -- selena gomez. eh, no. "look at the stars. look how they shine for you." "i will be rising from the ground like a skyscraper." interesting? lemonis: none of those you like? maggie: no. i didn't love them right off the bat. lemonis: i'm disappointed with the fact that maggie is not even being open-minded to any of these ideas. "no" usually should be followed with, "but what if we tried this?" or, "what if we did this?" kenny: are there any artists that inspire you? cambria: i think lady gaga is, like, supercool, such a strong woman. maggie: yeah, nope. cambria: nope? [ laughter ] maggie: let me skip her. juli: but i think that she has a plethora of songs, i feel like, and lyrics can mean something to everybody, like, a little bit something different. so it's -- you're pulling that emotion out rather that promoting that person

the lyric q. groups at the medical school levels need to approve on the budget because the gender nonconforming community deserves access to medication and equity in our schools. please be a proponent to garner greater accents -- access to agencies for youths for today and for the leaders of tomorrow. thank you. >> hello. i am born and raised in district 11 but i work at lyric. i stand in solidarity with the justice coalition. i am here to push the funding of the middle school q. groups with a hundred 75,000. as my experience as a former student there are still many challenges that trans youth face in a school setting such as homophobia, trans phobia, being marginalized by peers and school staff. with groups filling our youth. i am here to ask you all, q. groups are here for the youth and we will continue to be here. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello. we would also like to advocate for the funding of the middle school q. groups. we strongly believe that they are not only -- simply a hea

and then anytime i had time, i would be writing lyrics, or working on a collaboration with a produceror posting a video to youtube. and yeah, it was just way more fulfilling for me to make music. robert: give me an idea here, we've been talking about writing as sort of the theme of our show, songwriting. and i think, you know, there's a lot of different ways to talk about songwriting. but for you, what was like happening internally, you know, that you needed to be able to put on paper, as well as something that gave you sort of the feeling that you were getting something out, a message out, or feelings out? when did that start to develop? how did that manifest itself into becoming actual songs? rosendale: yeah, i think i just get randomly inspired by things that happen to me, especially when i was younger. i remember--actually, the new song that i just came out with, it was inspired by a message that a pastor sent to my family. and she wrote--well, she found my youtube channel and she wrote a message to my family, which basically said, "your son is spreading the work of the devil thro

also learned overnight that just two days before she was rushed to the hospital lovato forgot the lyricscally enough to that song "sober."c's dane ya bahumore. >> reporter: the emergency of pop superstar demi lovato. >> ems 11. engine 97. already on the scene. unconscious. >> reporter: according to "people" magazine, lovato is stable after an apparent overdose. the star's battle with addiction is no secret. >> so, i had to come to a point where i realized that i had a serious problem and admitting it was the hardest part. >> reporter: she admittedly struggled with an eating disorder, self-mutilation and mental illness sharing with "good morning america's" robin roberts it all started after being bullied as a child. >> i've suffered from cross addictions over the past few years. i was trying to control my eating disorder, trying to get help for it. >> reporter: last march lovato revealed she was celebrating six years of being substance-free. ♪ i'm sorry for the fans i lost who watched me fall again ♪ >> reporter: but recently lovato releasing a single titled "sober" indicating a possible

>> jimmy: poopity-scoop. >> is that a lyric? >> jimmy: yeah, it's a lyric.you. >> jimmy: it's good. >> okay. >> jimmy: okay. alfiright. we havlled out the words for our scene. are you ready to perform? >> let's do it man. >> jimmy: let's do this. here we go. >> let's do this. let's go. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: good evening, my le liookie. [ laughter and applause ] >> special director pollywog, good to see you again. >> i'm here with your next mission. a criminal organization of the world's most amazing, sanitation engineers -- [ laughter ]ck into the government's walkman. [ light laughter ] stealing their top secret .report on vintage sneake [ laughter ] >> come here, darling. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i understand your reaction. the group also kidnapped your aunt ingrid, and is holdinher for a ransom of 1,000,256 sofas. [ laughter ] >> where the doodie-head are we going to get 1,000,256 sofas? >> jimmy: i don't know, but we have to move fast. >> i have a plan. i'll meet up with the group disguising as myself. disguising myself as huckleberry finn. [ l

> reporter: don't you think it glamorizes violence, p perpetua violence. >> it is proven that that lyric0% that it is -- he said he was going to do that and he did that, that's obviously a bad thing. coming from where i come from, i try to encourage them to do better and come out of that life and show them, like, forget the retaliation, like, just try and leave it. >> reporter: stanley also hopes for resolution, not revenge. >> he was my young son. >> reporter: as this father grieves, the country struggles to contain a culture of gang violence before it claims more innocent lives. >> i feel the spirit in this room. i feel the spirit so much in this room. the name is alive. the candles are alive. he's alive. >> reporter: cnn, london. >> just feel for that father, the loss of a beautiful child. >> yes, certainly, certainly. that's just a sickening story all around. >>> coming up here, we're going to take you to alaska because there is a major possible change to this beautiful land. >> welcome to one of the last truly wild places on earth. >> but all this wilderness could be in for that cha

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there's a lot of tender in this i think a lot of dignity as opposed to solve depreciation in his lyrics. i wonder if you agree with that and how do you think that was possible to both critique life and love it seem to live a you know he was victor was different than the other musicians that i hung out with there was something different about him and i'm not sure why he didn't understand but he was brilliant you know some of the other musicians circuit knew he was a genius and it wasn't egotistical it was like a fact he knew what they know what in some sense forrest in the eighty's you know. he knew that people thought he was a d.d. and that he had these special talents and for me victor i don't think he really understood how great his songs were and i think sometimes he was almost a little embarrassed and for victor he was the type that you know we'd be in the pop mechanics concert we'd both be on stage with all the other musicians and he would look across the street a stage and we could me and smile as if he was saying hey joe isn't this great how cool we get to be part of this pop mec

these are the original working lyrics - for "toys in the attic." - oh, my god. may i? this is fantastic. i'm harvey levin. this is a story about a man whose name became synonymous with rock and roll. ♪ sing it with me, sing for the years ♪ ♪ sing for the laughter, sing for the tears ♪ steven tyler became one of the biggest names in music and enjoyed every perk that went along for the ride. as a rock star, how easy is it to get laid? it's very easy. i think rock stars, i felt like i had an obligation to keep that alive, and women had their way with me. you had an obligation to keep it alive? - oh, yeah. - ( laughs ) but his journey to the top was not match for his own personal demons. i have an addictive personality, so i found certain drugs that i loved and i didn't stop, to the point of hurting my children, hurting my family, hurting my life. there was a point where i didn't have a band and i didn't care. but steven fought hard to get clean and clawed his back to the top again, this time, bigger than ever. there isn't a day that i wake up and i'm not moved to tears th

and we're going to perform the jumbled lyrics right now it's time for google translates songs.so if you've ever used google translate, you know it's not always perfect. for example when translated to slovenian and back, "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon" becomes "tonight sections play jimmy fallon." [ light laughter ] all right, so we did the same thing with song lyrics some people have done this online it's super fun so amanda, you're my guest you're up first. you will be singing the google translate version of abba's hit classic "dancing queen." [ light laughter ] [ cheers ] which, when translated, it's called "hula prince. [ laughter ] roots, whenever you're ready ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause >> jimmy: wow. oh my goodness that's how you do it right there. [ cheers and applause that is how you do it. i feel bad >> why >> jimmy: it's a bitter sweet story of the hula prince >> yeah it was, yeah >> jimmy: it only lasts 15 years >> no! >> jimmy: then someone - someone eats him at the end. [ light laughter ] >> yeah. >> jimmy: okay, here we go it's my turn now i'll be performin

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life there's a lot of tenderness i think a lot of dignity as opposed to solve depreciation in his lyrics. i wonder if you agree with that and how do you think that it was possible to both critique life and love it seem to live a you know he was victor was different than the other musicians that i hung out with there was something different about him and i'm not sure why he didn't understand but he was brilliant you know some of the other musicians knew he was a genius and it wasn't you go to stickle it was like a fact he knew what they know what in some sense forrest in the eighty's you know. he knew that people thought he was a deity and that he had these special talents and for me victor i don't think he really understood how great his songs were and i think sometimes he was almost a little embarrassed and for victor he was the type that you know we'd be in the pop mechanics concert we'd both be on stage with all the other musicians and he would look across the street a stage and we could me and smile as if he was saying hey joe isn't this great how cool we get to be part of this pop m

are experiencing a second comeback in modern day russia but the way that call was expressed in his lyrics i thought was very culturally russian because his most famous song was we are awaiting change rather than we are the change which would be a seam i think for many western musicians and i wonder well whether you agree with the russians are indeed more. massive him in a way of waiting for the change to be delivered to them rather than being the agents of change well first of all i want to bring up that it is not clear that victor wrote that song we're waiting of the change that he meant politically and concrete specific things you know i think i think could be that was almost a spiritual change and i think again what was different from the music in the eighty's and forced british cops music you know it was poetry that you could read things through the line but nothing was concrete nothing was saying we don't like you know this ruling soviet union we don't like this this is the way it is to russia want this it was more about awakening people and making people feel and making people think

i learned to read with my cousin and i would lie on the carpet with her records and lyrics and we'd sing. long tried to sing along. with being asked after the first song. i was a front for life if you defend. this . then i grew up here in hog and in the region and it was here she began playing music in the late seventies songs. with us i just really needed and deeply wanted to get to know the world. and i knew music would make that happen for me the music from the sea and. the furious began in nine hundred seventy nine singing in the back of the stripes in english. but success when you come to my nine hundred eighty two in berlin when with a new band name nash became the face and voice of new german wave. no one in line says look but almost carried head to international pop fame nina became the poster girl for german pop music the success could be overwhelming. not to be super happy but you have to take it easy because everything's just happening so fast we celebrated yesterday but i think the real joy is only going to hit now that we're back. in the late eighties and in a split from the

. >> you talk about the lyricism and poetry and that's present in the book, it's a lyrical memoir andome of that is because of marwan background. do you want to talk about how you got approved writing this and making it feel the way you wanted it to feel? >> one of the things to know about marwan is he studied english literature and he's someone who translated waiting for to go into arabic for fun. he reads all those modernist books that i can't read, but he's someone into reading noam chomsky's books on linguistics so he has a super rich literary background and what he didn't want to do was he was like, i'm not going to write a . 101 book where i teach these people things like what is syria? syria is a country in the middle east, it has muslims in it but also christians and jews . they can deal with this themselves. and instead, what we both wanted to do was a book that portrayed the richness and complexity of the people that he knew and also of the conflict itself which is a conflict that so often especially now is simplified as brutal but a secular dictator versus isis is not at al

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and, you know, trying to spit lyrics, there's nothing worse than seeing an old man trying to be young and hanging out with rappers, it's horrible. but what's interesting is that, yeah, of course we worry. and rappers who get older, who start aging out start worrying. because this is an explosive art form. it's so influential. it's so powerful. and there are multiple generations. can't talk about the hip-hop generation. you talk about little flip, you're talking about lil' john, you're talking about lil' wayne, and those littles are all generationally specifically, right? [laughter] some of y'all going to have to be big at a certain point, right? [laughter] and then you've got the tension in terms of the rhetorical fluidity and the percussive spirit of mumble rap, and i joke about it as an older guy. you know what i'm saying? no, i really don't know what you're saying. i mean -- [laughter] no. you know -- [inaudible] like, what in the hell are you saying? [laughter] right? i'm with you. i mean -- i'm down with it. so i'm down with all that. i joke about it, but i love the fact that, yo

some fans here also know the original german lyrics off by heart so campy now in particular has left a lasting impression with a laugh and i love his personality i know my son and. i spent four months. to get his name accepted. in the twenty seven teams he jordan holes in rich enough to celebrate a quarter of a century of playing the stages of. this still. thank. you. for a stage play the song about a teenage criminal prove their breakthrough in one nine hundred eighty eight years the video. clip live. live. live live live. live. live. live live. live live. live . please. please. please. please. please. please please. please. please. coming up more exciting stories about the total knows that on this topic sports special. back in two thousand and nine actor spear good minish meyer and frenchman compu no played a couple singing a duet in the video for the song and. who first came up with the idea for the collaboration. but it wasn't mine there was probably only because i'm a shop i've been dreaming of singing a duet some day for many many years. but that's hard to do because i can so e