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12 WESTERN CAROLINIAN GET A LIFE September 20, 2000 Music Review It's a Beautiful Thing: Sister Hazel's Fortress by Hannah Crane Staff Writer Sister Ha2el, the band that brought to us the happy-in-love song "All for You", recently released their third album, Fortress. The new album follows the pop rock formula in that it includes some feel-good songs along with some that show pain and a lad bit of angst, but the sound is consistent with Sister Hazel's style. The first track on the album, "Change Your Mind" is already getting air play on radio stations. According to the Sister Hazel website, band member Ken Block wrote this song while the group was putting together material for this album and he realized that sometimes people have to break out of their old mind sets to see things in a new perspective before real creativity can be achieved. This brings to the surface one aspect of Sister Hazel; they seem to have a desire to be more than just a music group, many of their songs go deeper than just guitars and convenient lyrics. Another example of this is "Strange Cup of Tea". Starting off with an acoustic introduction and combining strong lyrics with the steady guitar, this song is successful in being uplifting without sounding like a self-help anthem. The song says, "My faith in things unseen/ My be- by Annie Sechrist Staff Writer I don't know who it was that felt compelled to share their deepest, darkest fantasies with the world, but please allow me to clarify that not every woman in the world wants to have "relations" with a homosexual male. Cinema during the later half of the eighties and continuing on through the nineties displayed a plethora of films dealing with just that situation: "Object of My Affection," "Threesome," and "Clueless" are just a few of examples of this. Even prime time television picked up on the idea: several Seinfield episodes dealt with "the changing of the teams" and the sitcom Will and Grace likes to dabble with the possibility to the two leading characters with the same sexual preference, despite different genders, getting together. My response to all of this misplaced sexual anxiety...leave the boy alone. I felt like screaming just that at Madonna in her new movie, "The Next Best Thing." It wasn't enough that she has had relations with the majority of the female preferenced public, but she now feels the need to just spread her, urn ... love, to the non as well. Her boyfriend in the beginning of the lief that it'll all work out/ May seem like a strange cup of tea". The chorus follows with "On my feet I walk, with my legs I run/ In my arms I'll hold another day./ With my head I think, from my heart I sing/ And with my hands to my face I pray", so even though nothing is shoved at the listener, we get the idea that the group is about believing in things coming full circle. Another song that is thought-provoking is the title song, "Fortress". This song deals with the building of a fortress to hide from our problems, which is a common human flaw. It is a slow, soul-searching employing the guitar's ability to sympathize by crying along with the vocalist. By no means, is this album an absolute thinking person's collection. ^^^^^^^^^^^ There are some definite easy-going songs to lighten the load. One of the best songs on the album, "Beautiful Thing," is just such a Video Review Leave the Boy Alone movie left her because he needed someone who would just sit there when his friends came over and be content just looking pretty. Apparently Madonna was just too much work. Her come back was amazing though, "No, what you want is a bimbo, and that is what you deserve." I was blown photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures Rupert Everett and Madonna get kinky in their latest film. away by the utter irony of the whole situation, who exactly was he dating before he got to Madonna? I thought the reoc- curring statement about Madonna was a nice subliminal message though, every guy in the movie that she slept with commented on how nice she was while having relations. "You're a nice lay, but you think too much." It just gives her that higher class appeal. Anyway, Miss-Too-Much-Work plays (and here is a shocker) a yoga instructor who bends and flexes all over the screen. She also happens to be best friends with Robert (Rupert Everett), a landscape/gardener for a fabulously rich couple who leave their mansion with him over the fourth of July. Robert is openly gay and very much drunk when he and Madonna ... hem hem .... take a roll in the hay. However, it does take two to tango and apparently neither of these dancers believe in birth control- so we soon find out that Madonna is pregnant and a chain of events begin to unravel that is so unethical, unrealistic, and unhealthy that the movie should simply be categorized as upsetting. "The Next Best Thing" makes a few attempts at having overall worth and brought up some very serious issues faced prime example. This song puts one in mind of a warm September afternoon driving through the mountains with next-to-nothing to worry about. The lyrics are fun too: "Won't you sing me your poetry/ Won't you take me to your home/Won't you be with me forever/so I'll never be alone/ And just one thing/ if you're my queen—/ It's a beautiful thing". One of the most difficult things to do in songwriting, or writing of any kind for that matter, is to write a love song that sounds fresh and is not sappy; this song is just enough sweetness without going over the edge. Finally, another easy-going song on this album is the short instrumental "Back Porch" which sounds like apickin' and grinnin' out on the back porch (hence the title). Sister Hazel achieved album diversity by including meaningful songs and fun, sweet songs as well. The main gripe might be that they do have such a definite sound, which is not necessarily a bad thing, if you appreciate the familiarity of a group maintaining its style. However, if you enjoy hearing a band branch out, well they did not quite make it. Sister Hazel did score big points with some listeners merely because of the song called "Elvis" on the Fortress album. Any group that can work Elvis into their album has got something special. in our society today. Neil Patrick Harris played a wonderful role in one of the movies subplots dealing with same sex partners and their rights as couples, but the main story line contradicted any good that could have come from the movie. It was the whole one step forward, two steps back kind of thing. The overall premise of the movie was promising and if someone had actually taken the time to hire a new script writer and a new lead actress the movie would be on the verge of actual greatness. The symbolism and key plot were there, they were just overshadowed and under acted. Instead of being a movie about gay rights, it was a movie about Madonna and her tolerance of gay rights. Rupert Everett started out strong and wonderful as usual, but his performance slowly began to slip towards the middle of the movie. I guess he too just marked it off as a lost cause. These issues are what American society has to deal with on a daily basis. There is so much dysfunction and confusion in the world. And somehow, before we deal with what is at hand, we manage to create and glorify yet another problem. Movies like "The Next Best Thing" and "Threesome" exemplify this; no sooner do we fully realize what it is that plagues us that someone else has their hand on Pandora's box.

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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.
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  - Western Carolina University
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  - Date original: 2000-09-20
  - Date digitized: 2020-02-27
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  - Dimension: 14" x 11.25"
  - Pages: 20 pages
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  - Jackson County (N.C.)
  - Cullowhee (N.C.)
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  - HL_WesternCarolinian_2000-09-20_Vol65_No05
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  - Western Carolina University Hunter Library

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