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From the perspective of popularity, this synth-funk track from the Eddie Murphy comedy “Beverly Hills Cop” is hardly in the pantheon. As delivered by then-Shalamar lead singer Jody Watley, the song addressed, in its own subtle way, the racial disharmony that plagued the region in the early ’90s. It’s like Taylor Swift woke up one day and decided to ruin the Eras Tour for every girl still young enough to believe in long-term monogamous love. It’s giving Lover House on fire, and I, for one, am living for these raw, day-three-of-your-period lyrics. The very best line is the kicker, in which Swift fires a warning shot at the incoming freshman class of pop-star girlies. She may as well have written, “I’m going to eat you alive, Olivia Rodrigo,” but “Try and come for my job” is just as good and leaves a little room for plausible deniability.
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In 1970, John earned his first national attention in Los Angeles when he tore through a string of shows at the Troubadour in West Hollywood. Famously, John credits The Times’ then pop music critic, Robert Hilburn, whose rave review helped boost the artist’s trajectory. The superstar songwriter has been connected to the city ever since. His longtime lyricist, Bernie Taupin, set this classic ballad on Sunset Boulevard, as well as the beach at the boulevard’s western edge. John introduced “Tiny Dancer” to the world at the Greek in 1971.
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The 257-foot high Los Angeles California Temple looms over famous Santa Monica Boulevard in Westwood. The spacious grounds are filled with a dazzling array of foliage including—to name a few—Canary Island Pine trees, several varieties of palm trees, Bird of Paradise trees, olive trees, and rare Chinese Ginkgo trees. Two fountains, a large reflection pool, and several family-themed statues further beautify the grounds. North of the temple is a public visitors' center that showcases a representation of Thorvaldsen's Christus statue and also houses the popular Los Angeles Family History Library. The temple grounds are all aglow at Christmastime when thousands of multi-colored lights decorate the numerous trees and features.
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Former staff writer Randall Roberts covered Los Angeles music culture for the Los Angeles Times. He had served various roles since arriving at The Times in 2010, including music editor and pop music critic. As a staff writer, he explored the layered history of L.A. Music, from Rosecrans and Sunset to Ventura Boulevard and beyond. His 2020 project on the early Southern California phonograph industry helped identify the first-ever commercial recording made in Los Angeles. The project features essays, interviews, portraits and quick primers on the past 25 years’ worth of crucial songwriting about the city.
We can also sing to the God who heals and saves, and who always makes a way. He hung upon the cross and rose up from the grave, and His power is still rolling stones away. We are forgiven, accepted, and redeemed by His grace, and we can let the house of the Lord sing praise. We are blessed to be able to worship the Lord, the God who was, is, and evermore will be. He is the one who opened the prison doors and parted the raging sea. We can find joy in the house of the Lord, and we should not be quiet in our praise of Him.
An interview with Dr. John Covach, music professor at the University of Rochester whose free online courses have become wildly popular. The co-writer/guitarist on many Alice Cooper hits, Dick was also Lou Reed's axeman on the Rock n' Roll Animal album.
“But Daddy I Love Him” takes dead aim at the millions of people, including Swift’s parents, who did not want to see the pop star end up with the volatile and problematic frontman of the 1975. But as Swift confesses in this scorched-earth banger, she loves him and doesn’t give two shits what anyone thinks about it. Picture Swift, drunk on Healy’s nicotine-stained kisses, telling her dad that she and her new sentient cigarette of a boyfriend are pregnant, then immediately saying, “Just kidding! It’s “Leader of the Pack,” if the Shangri-Las wrote it while they were locked away at Shutter Island. “Momma was a cold drinker in the ’70s,” Snoop Dogg told Thrillist in 2017 during a rollout for a famous brand of gin the rapper was promoting, on the origin of his cruising classic. “They used to have parties at the house in the living room with a bar, with the 8-track cassette player.
Be the first to hear new worship artists and songs. The playlists, good reads and video interviews you need—delivered every week. Kendrick's six-minute diss is practically the only thing being discussed today. "Buried Alive" is a possible track on Chance the Rapper's upcoming mixtape titled Star Line.
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She’s the funniest, most vicious friend in your group chat. From the Matty Healy insults to the self-aware shots she takes at herself, here are the funniest, most outrageous lyrics from The Tortured Poets Department. Not too long after moving to L.A., Hewitt and his cousin were cruising in his Monte Carlo and, after eating at a Mid-City McDonald’s, decided to explore. “We’re two young black men riding through Beverly Hills in a car with out-of-state license plates on it,” Hewitt says, laughing. Despite the volume and variety of lyrical references, a Google search of “songs about L.A.” invariably turns up the same dozen songs, “I Love L.A.,” “Straight Outta Compton,” “Free Fallin’” and “All I Wanna Do” among them.
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The song’s narrative, about a pair of lovers who smuggle weed from San Ysidro to Hollywood, was even turned into a telenovela on Telemundo. “Hollywood has a very important significance for us,” bassist Hernán Hernandez told Miranda. “This year I took some time off from touring and went off on some adventures of my own, and this is kind of a letter back home,” Mitchell told a crowd in 1970 during a televised performance. “The first verse I wrote in Paris and the next verse I wrote in Spain and the last verse I wrote when I got home again.” The result, taken from Mitchell’s album “Blue,” is one of the great love letters to the region.
Hewitt eventually got an apartment on Fountain Avenue in West Hollywood, which borders Beverly Hills. In fact, one of the artist’s first bands was called Beverly Hills. Last year, Wainwright recalled to The Times the circumstances that led to his song, written when he was a few months shy of 30 years old. In Hollywood, I used to stay at the Tropicana, and for a while I was at the Sunset Marquis.
