Taylor Swift releases 'Speak Now' single: Like it?
10/06/2010 10:21:00 AM
kenmouse
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Taylor Swift released the title song from her upcoming Oct. 25 album Speak Now earlier today. It promptly sped to the top of the iTunes Music Store chart, where it has remained all afternoon. There’s a good reason for that: This is one of her best tunes yet.“Speak Now” is an expertly catchy pop composition whose twangy, up-and-down hooks might remind you of “You Belong With Me.” Like that hit, it’s a classic Swift story song. Our narrator is at a wedding that she feels compelled to interrupt because she inconveniently loves the groom. (Her very own “I’ma let you finish, but…” moment!) Swift fleshes out this sketch with sharply observed details: the bride’s “snotty little family all dressed in pastel,” a bridesmaid’s “gown shaped like a pastry,” a church organ playing “a song that sounds like a death march,” and so on. Her expressive delivery of the lyrics makes up for any shortcomings as a technical vocalist: Check out how her voice falls on the last two words of “You wish it was me, don’t you?” and rushes anxiously over “There’s a silence/There’s my last chance/I stand up with shaking hands,” both intentional choices that make the words feel more immediate.
It's been just over a month and a half since Oracle first sued Google for infringing various Java-related patents in Android, and the big G's just filed its official response to the lawsuit after calling it "baseless." For the most part, it's a pretty standard answer to a patent complaint: Google says Android doesn't infringe any of Oracle's patents, and even if it does, those patents are invalid and / or unenforceable for a variety of reasons anyway, so, you know, shove it. That's basically all Google -- or any patent defendant -- needs to say in the answer, and if that was it, we'd just note it and move on with our lives. But we were struck by the factual background section, which reads to us like Google's geared up for war: it basically accuses Sun and Oracle of not playing fair when it comes to Java's open-source license situation and directly implies that parts of Android are based on code that might require a patent license. It's a little wonky, but let's break it down:
Yup, it's on!
No joke: Chelsea Handler and 50 Cent are dating, a source confirms to Us.
Recently, Andy Lau’s 44-year old wife Carol Chu was ‘rumored’ to be 3 months pregnant – a magazine also claimed that due to their age, Andy was especially nervous about his wife’s pregnancy and so hired bodyguards to protect her as well as chauffeurs to drive her places. The rumors also claim that after Andy returned to Hong Kong from an earlier trip, he has been keeping his wife company at home and that’s why he has not showed up at many public events.
After a lovey-dovey date Saturday at Soho House, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart hit the town together again last night!
Hair ye, hair ye: Keira Knightley has chopped off her hair.