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Consider Super Junior, and SHINee, and a chart-topping rapper in a Wonder Woman bathrobe. And no surprise, the 21 st century’s great pop fop Kanye West got into the act, sporting a leather skirt for his performance at the 12-12-12 Concert for Sandy Relief.īut our Anglo-American faunlets shrink in terror before the pop stars of Korea, where camp musical spectacle has been taken to rococo Ziegfeldian heights. There’s the “post-closet black queer overground” that Jason writes about, a category that includes not only Azealia Banks but fast-rising rapper Le1f, and Zebra Katz, whose mesmerizing “ Ima Read” I’d slept on until Music Club professor emeritus Jonah Weiner woke me up this past weekend. But camp was all over the place in ’12: bubbling up from below, and agleam at the top of the pops. The cult of Freddie is one example of the resurgence-the resilience-of camp, which, as Jason drily notes, “is still very much alive in pop music.” Certainly fun.’s appeal is due in no small part to its savvy updating of Queen’s camp theatricality-the best way, maybe, for a rock band to go mainstream in an age of pop spectacle-not to mention Ruess’ embodiment of epicene hipster style.
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(There’s a Mercury biopic in the works, too, starring Sacha Baron Cohen.)
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Mercury has returned to pop with a vengeance recently, his influence audible in Ruess and Lady Gaga and Adam Lambert and Mika and Foxy Shazam’s Eric Sean Nally, who has also revived Mercury’s moustache. (My favorite song on Pink’s album is the Ruess duet, which he also co-wrote, “ Just Give Me A Reason.” It’s no mean feat to sing Pink to a draw.) Of course, it’s not hard to detect the voice behind Ruess’ voice: He flaunts his debt to Freddie Mercury. It’s that sound, I imagine, that enticed the Grammy nominating committee: a mix of contemporary and classic, earthy and synthetic, that feels right in 2012.īut, bottom line, Ruess has the pipes. The music that thumps and swells behind him is a bit nuts, too: “Some Nights” opens with an a capella chorale borrowed from Kansas and steals a refrain from Simon & Garfunkel there’s hip-hop production and auto-tune and “tribal” chants. I love how emotionally all-over-the-place he is in “ Some Nights”: whipsawing from navel-gazer (“Who am I?” “What do I stand for?”) to zealot-at-the-barricades (“This is it, boys, this is war”), from alienated artiste (“Ten years of this, I’m not sure if anybody understands”) to ADD-addled youth (“Five minutes in and I’m bored again”), from little-boy-lost (“I miss my Mom and Dad”) to megalomaniac (“I always win”). You’re also right that Ruess is a compelling character, a kind of gonzo emo confessor-a little bit Sorrows of Young Werther, a little bit My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. It helps, for sure, that he and his bandmates write excellent songs, with storm-surge choruses worthy of that big voice. You can see bands and a dark spot in Uranus' atmosphere.Ann, here’s the thing about fun.: Nate Ruess can really sing. The Hubble Space Telescope took this picture of Uranus. Orange and red colors mean very high clouds, similar to cirrus clouds on Earth. The yellow and grey parts have thicker clouds. Green and blue areas show where the atmosphere is clear and sunlight can get through. This image has colors added to show the different altitudes and thicknesses of clouds in the atmosphere. This picture shows Uranus surrounded by its four major rings and by 10 of its moons. Uranus has only been visited by Voyager 2.Uranus was discovered in 1781 by William Herschel in Great Britain.That means Saturn and Neptune are Uranus’ neighboring planets. Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun.That’s a long time to wait for a birthday cake. One year on Uranus is the same as 84 years on Earth.One day on Uranus lasts a little over 17 hours (17 hours and 14 minutes, to be exact).Uranus spins the opposite direction as Earth and most other planets.Uranus is the only planet that spins on its side.Uranus has a thick atmosphere made of methane, hydrogen, and helium.It is mostly made of flowing icy materials above a solid core. Uranus is an ice giant (instead of a gas giant).Uranus is surrounded by a set of 13 rings.And unlike any other planet, Uranus rotates on its side. Like Venus, Uranus rotates in the opposite direction as most other planets. The outer rings are brightly colored and easier to see. Credit: NASA Visualization Technology Applications and Development (VTAD) Explore Uranus! Click and drag to rotate the planet.