Archive for February, 2006

RIP: Bruce “Sesame Street” Hart

Spare a thought for Bruce Hart, the lyricist who came up with the famous line, "Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street". It must be one of those songs that always seemed like it was out there for millions of people. But of course, someone had to come up [...]

Favourite lyrics too complicated?

Every lyricist has heard the dreaded words too often: can’t you make it a little easier? But now the comment is coming from British literacy experts that have come to the same conclusion. As part of the Get On literacy campaign, they sat down and analysed the top 10 karaoke hits, including Robbie Williams’ “Angels”, [...]

“…only way to sell is to sound obscene”

Does this sound familiar or what? But no, we’re not talking about the bling scene in the US, these are comments made about Ghana’s once-exciting Hiplife scene, so well defined by Reggie Rockstone. Is it comforting to know that people in Ghana are asking the same questions about their popular music as us? Truth is, [...]