Hints and tips:
...A ravishing cover of Evans’s “Evanessence” gets to the essence of the style and two originals contrast the florid romanticism of “Andrew John” with the Southern soul of “Swamp Thang”....
...The long finale segued “Happy People” with the calypso-inflected “Wayne’s Thang”....
...High-rolling guests — Snoop, current golden boy Kendrick Lamar — do their thangs....
...And he draws on the full spectrum of African-American music so that precisely articulated modernism ends with a holler that can make you shiver....
...In old-school style, Eminem played truncated versions of his songs with a hypeman-sidekick while the music sounded like a bigger version of the no-nonsense beat-making you might find in a basement rap club...
...During an interlude of 1990s house music, a Dance Cam picked out parents shaking their thangs, to the delight of their offspring and those busting a groove....
...For those who somehow failed to get the point a 1959 album made it crystal clear – The Twang’s the Thang....
...And the music is by Radiohead and the electro-punk band Wire, for example. But he is not just being trendy. Petronio makes his best dances when a regular beat is banging away....
...Is it films, rap music, street culture?”...
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