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 KLF420 rated 4 months ago - "The line between theatrics and the pop song is a tight one to walk. The grandiose is a delicate thing to play with and incorporating modern elements into a tradition is always dicey. Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera radically combined jazz (see "Mack the Knife") with the clas...
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- KLF420 rated 4 months ago
- "The line between theatrics and the pop song is a tight one to walk. The grandiose is a delicate thing to play with and incorporating modern elements into a tradition is always dicey. Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera radically combined jazz (see "Mack the Knife") with the classic elements of theater. It is safe to say that one word Wax Fang is not afraid of is "theatrical." Other welcome descriptions might include "bombastic," "extravagant," hell, why not just call it "big." These are songs with soaring choruses and pounding verses that aren't afraid to throw in a dramatic military-esque drum roll ("World War II (Pt. 2)") or the sinister sound of sharpening scissors ("The Doctor Will See You Now") for effect. These are also songs that are heavily steeped in the history of the band - their Bourbon-soaked Kentucky roots show themselves as proudly in their country riffs as Weill's love for jazz glimmered in Threepenny."-Christen Thomas
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