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Aggielife
Page 5 • The Battalion
OPAS chair aims for wider variety of shows
Rony Angkriwan, The Battalion
Suzannah Taylor, a junior speech communications major, is the
new chair of the MSC OPAS committee.
!y)ohn LeBas
The Battalion
T^he mission of the the MSC
I Opera and Performing Arts
J. Society is “to provide per-
brming artists of national and
nternational quality to Texas
i&M and the citizens of the Bra-
Ms Valley.”
As 1996-97 chair of OPAS,
Suzannah Taylor, a junior
ipeech communications major,
mid she will strive to make
Texas A&M students more
aware of their opportunities to
lee such performers.
"A goal is to really let people
mow what OPAS is and what
ive’re doing,” Taylor said. “When
students see that we’re bringing
ligh-caliber performances, hope-
ully more people take advan-
;age of the great opportunities.”
Taylor said that, as a student,
ihe is concerned with the needs
if her fellow students.
She said OPAS has been work-
ng throughout the past year on
;he 1996 97 season to provide stu-
lents with the best opportunities
;o see presentations ranging from
Broadway musicals to cultural
lance groups.
“I’m really excited about the
lext season,” Taylor said. “We
,ried to focus more on musicals,
jecause we know that’s what the
students like.”
Next season’s bill includes
Joseph and the Amazing Techni-
:olor Dreamcoat, Singin’ in the
Rain and A Tuna Christmas, an
Austin-originated play in which
;wo actors portray various small-
sown characters.
Students can also expect such
liverse performers as Moscow
Pest Ballet, the National Song
and Dance Ensemble of Tibet,
;he New York City Opera and
3t. Paul’s Chamber Orchestra.
Taylor, who came to A&M
with a strong performance back
ground and is also in the Centu
ry Singers, hopes such highly ac
claimed events and affordable
prices will provide more stu
dents glimpses of performing
arts and culture beyond that of
Bryan-College Station.
“(The tickets) are an incredi
ble deal,” she said. “One thing
that we’re really looking to do
is up ticket sales. We really
see that as one of our main
goals — because there’s no
academic fine arts program
here, we try to compensate for
that through OPAS.”
OPAS will also continue to
provide educational opportuni
ties, such as Brazos Valley chil
dren’s programs.
Taylor, who has served in
OPAS as a Student Development
subcommittee member and direc
tor of Financial Development and
was chosen in February as the
new committee chair, said OPAS
is important to the growing accep
tance of the arts at A&M and that
she welcomes all student involve
ment with the organization.
“We really encourage people
who have an interest in per
forming arts to apply, because
we accept new members every
semester,” she said.
“I’m excited for people to want
to be part of OPAS, through go
ing to the performances or being
on the committee.”
Taylor is creating a subcom
mittee for next season that will
deal specifically with promo
tion and public relations to in
crease student awareness of
OPAS.
“We hope that during and
after this season, people will
know more about us and what
have to offer,” she said.
Taylor said that as an MSC
committee, one of OPAS’ focus
es is to promote student devel
opment, which is another rea
son why OPAS tries to give
students the best opportunities
to see fine performances.
“We want to get people to
shows to let them know about
all the great things outside
College Station,” she said.
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Popular music guilty of ambiguous lyrics, unclear banter of Texas a&m are invited to our:
Y ou know the tune ...
it goes a little like
this:
“Your best friend,
Harry, has a brother, Lar
ry/In five days from now,
he’s gonna marry / He’s
toping you can make it
here if you can / Cuz in
he ceremony, you’ll be the
lest man.”
Hold it right there, Young M.C.
The sample above from “Bust a Move” is a
classic example of a disturbing trend I have
noticed of late in popular music: these lyrics
don’t make much sense.
Let’s analyze Mr. M.C.’s logic for just a
bit. Now Harry is your best friend, and Lar
ry is his brother. Why in the hell does Larry
want his brother’s best friend to be the best
man on the most important day of his life?
Doesn’t Larry have any of his own
friends? Even more important, just think
about Harry’s feelings.
How would you like it if your own brother
said, “Yeah, Nick, you’re invited, but that
friend of yours ... what’s his name? Anyway,
he’s my best man.”
A more recent example of the logical
breakdowns in hit music can be found in
Alanis Morisette’s smash single “Ironic.”
This is one of Morisette’s happy-go-lucky
numbers that tells, me that I’m a bad person
because I have a penis.
Anyway, while making this grandiose
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knife. Ten thousand spoons?
Does anyone in the world have
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managing your paychecks to the
point where you have 10,000 of
any kitchen utensil?
The problem is not just with the lyrics,
but with the way they are delivered by the
artists. For some reason, some of our pop
culture icons just can’t help but mutter their
ways through every single song.
This causes confusion, and can ultimately
muddle the true meaning of the song.
One example is Chicago’s smash No.l hit
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Peter Cetera has a weird voice anyway,
but in the closing refrains of the tune, he
mutters something that sounds like, “You’re
going to Hakeem Olajuwon.”
Never in the song has Cetera mentioned
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throw him in at the end. A quick glance at
the lyric sheet tells me that Cetera has actu
ally sung, “You’re going to be the lonely one.”
Don’t hide that spite, Peter! Tell her off!
Your song sold 7 million copies!
Another case in point of garbled lyrics
comes courtesy of my favorite 1980s rock
group — Bon Jovi.
In the group’s classic “Livin’ on a Prayer”
(coincidentally the theme song of the 1987
Johnston Middle School Football Team), Jon
Bon Jovi appears to spout out, “Baby, it’s
Northgate! Northgate ...”
I don’t know if the guys from Bon Jovi se
cretly attended A&M in the mid-’80s and got
the idea for throwing in a reference to the lo
cal nighttime strip in Hicksville, USA, but it
seems odd.
I know the boys are really singing, “Baby,
it’s OK. OK,” but for all the money the group
made off of Slippery When Wet, you’d think
they’d be singing their heads off.
There are other felons of the lyric crime
— Nirvana with “Hey, Dave, I’ve got a
new complaint;” Gary Wright with “Flying
high through the starry skies, and maybe
to an Astros’ game;” and I swear Bobby
Brown says “Georgandis” somewhere in
“Humpin’ Around.”
My all-time favorite lyrics abuser, howev
er, is Sir Mix-a-lot. Perhaps he believes we
were thrown off by his references to big-butt
women, but he still tries to get away with
rhyming animal and scandal..
Still, I can’t be too mad with Mix-a-lot.
Anyone who can work the name “Rumple
Smoothskin” into a song can’t be all bad.
The problem exists, however, and I have
no explanation for it.
Maybe the quality of music has simply de
teriorated in the past 20 years, maybe it’s a
big conspiracy by recording labels or perhaps
I’ve just got too much free time based on my
terminal case of senioritis.
Nah.
Nick Georgandis is a
senior journalism major
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