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Show wEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18 2018 17, "lolly (Gleason GLEN GAMBOA BY Gleason remem- moment when bers the Tucker changed her Tanya 1 , J life. was a high school student in Cleveland when ' walked into a record and saw a life-siz- e store of Tucker in a red she diSplay catsuit promoting album "TNT." her I lost my think "I breath," says Gleason, addition to being ho, in and songwriter, author an artist develop- works in in Nashville now. m ent "All my circuits were overloaded ... . I remem- What ber thinking, '$5.99. pre-emine- nt spandex 1978 ' 1 1 I 1 q 1 find out?" It turns out Tucker ci young Gleason about country lot about being a music, woman, about navigating I taught ' j a And it's those world. the part- - moments that Gleason looked to document in her gas. Dolly's world, lipstick, wigs, and high heels were immaterial to the talent that lies within." At a time when country better than I could," says music remains a Sanz. "Her lyrics spoke space where a for lot of women my age large parts of the Nashwho were trying to find ville establishment believe their way in the world, male artists are the lettuce in juggling a career and in their salad and female artists are the tomarelationships." Harrison, toes, Gleason says she supervisNancy at "Access ing producer thought it was important to celebrate the female Hollywood," wrote about how she became a Dolly contribution to country. Parton fan while growing "There was something in me that wanted to say on even Island up Long these women shouldn't though her first concert be forgotten," she says. was Billy Joel at Nassau "We're so inundated with Coliseum when she was 14 and she had spent pleneverything that people can get lost." ty of time at teen nights "There's never been at North Shore clubs. a more and diverse time in "Intelligent, bold, a with she confident, country music conquered space and roots rock and Americana and bluegrass it's just did so without camouflagon all feminot or her country radio," ing hiding Gleason adds. "It's out ninity," Harrison wrote. "She proved you did not there, but people have to know where to look." have to look or act like a In be to successful. man (c) 2018 Newsday. male-dominat- male-dominat- ed ed after years of pop dominance, talk about the radical turn of 'Street Livin" Black Eyed Peas, edorrID,k mber AUGUST BROWN BY e "It's not like 'Oh, the Black Eyed Peas are back and now they're militant," said. "Our first big hit was 'Where Is the Love?' where we were talking about real stuff. From the brutality of the education system to prison reform, we've been out in the community. This is the work we've been doing." In 2018, it's another era for the Black Eyed Peas, one that looks a lot like where it started. But in a time of so much p challenging, inventive and terrible divisions in where do the American life Peas fit in? The top of the pop charts, the front lines of activism or somewhere in between? The act has penned some INS Mess nt to In a ANGELES the trailer behind backstage LOS ahe that charged Into Action gallery show in Chinatown on Friday,three members of the BlackEyed Peas prepared to politically Lid. about nit with new music for the first time in seven years. The gallery was packed with activists, young paintings and installations, and speakers like the former environmental advisor walk onstage Las )r )ook to n. radical-chi- c mixed-medi- who only got to the Peas as one of the For fans unfit know be pop acts of the biggest-sellin- g 2000s, with Cat- hart d unt of the stickiest staples of the decade, but the multi-platinu- pop-rad- hits such or Black Eyed Peas' time away proved formative for how its members wanted to reset the and how they wanted band to respond to the changes in America. "Athletes have been standing up more than musicians," said. "We have to start standing up too." Gotta Feeling ," "MY Humps,, and "Boom Boom "I as iymous may have inconguous. But well and (longtime singer wasn't there apl.cle.ap then, Fergie she's on beae from the go.1) solo pursuing material) walked onto the gallery stage to introduce "Street Livin' ," a dark yet poig,nant new musing on gun control, prison reform and ,American racism, it felt like a new 7ner evision the Long- - una teturri to ig at leave Seven years is an eternity in Peas were pop music, but the meanthe in idle far from time. After performing at the 2011 Super Bowl halftime show, williarn released a beginnings as LA. rappers. the act's streetwise )rs that Mac-fo- r 15 BY KATE FELDMAN 2009 .pisodes )le for ' ' 1 , i r ' ' i . 4 I 1 "I ' , top 'I iends :ited it araing oll by , 4-, . 4 för 1 , , ,,,...4. - . . V., ::"1, .:,,---- of igeles .. , !,,. , . and ----, ': , With mpOr- t ', ) 5, was (ed ctors ' i i .,, 1 show," ed on , ''''h ',11cClapton , - ---- - a live in '()ncert at the Hall Albert Royal May14, 2015 in London, ri liglancl. performs Rock legend Eric Clap-tois losing his hearing. The "Lay la" singer, 72, revealed Tuesday that tinhe's suffering from ear the in nitus, a ringing caused that's commonly hearing d n lona son INS 1 ':' c, , arri ;tarting i - , , . 1.' .....L.,-..- .' , - , ; , noise-induce- loss. "The only thing I'm concerned with now is 70s and being g being in my I able to be proficient. I've deaf, mean, I'm going hands just got tinnitus, my said about work," Clapton 1 ) ' 11' , . p i lk I ) - i t' 'S, , l ' . 1 t , , ' , tr 4''' aommootor"- , z, '1, -a ..- .--) ' ,Ii - t,0004.-- r--- ), - i ' , -.- 4 - , been a preparation for a bigger Rock Sioux Reservation, and apl.de.ap opened schools in his glossy, raved-u- p pop tunes. Built around a mournful jazz sample, it's a forthright indictment of institutional racism in America that feels like an honest shot at matching the poetry and vitality of Kendrick Lamar. When the group prepped for native Philippines. spotlight only reinforced that there was much more work to be done, and the Black Eyed Peas are in a unique position as hitmakers with scrappy top-4- 0 backgrounds of activists and "conscious" rappers. "From me beating cancer and going to Standing Rock, to Ap's work in the Philippines," Taboo said, "all of this has .... - seemed sadly well-timeAfter all, as william said onstage when presenting the video for "Street Livin," "Whenever you see those commercials about sponsoring a kid for a dollar a day, remember that Ap was one of those kids." The song is tied to the group's new Marvel comic book project, "Masters of the Sun: The Zombie Chronicles," which hits some of the same notes as the Marvel film "Black Panther." That is, the work takes a multicultural spin on genre-fictio- n and sci-- fi noir, with a d. fight." "Street Livin" is indeed a turn from the act's hard-le- i 'h side of augmented reality and voice acting from Jamie Ewa, Queen Latifah and Stan Lee. It's not quite an album but more of a multiplatform media project of the sort that will lam has been pushing for years as a designer and tech investor. While it may not match the sheer ubiquity of the goup's ts pop smashes, the act is fine with that. All the and big cultural urgency numbers these streaming , days is coming from gritty, inwith no illusions tense hip-ho- p about the state of American life right now. The Peas helped pave that way, even if the group's youngest fans may not have been alive when its members were cutting those early LPs. The Black Eyed Peas may d not be as edgy as the Soundcloud generation or as .critically lionized as the Top Dawg Entertainment stable, but the group has experience and a proven history, and in tumultuous times, that has to count for something. "Right now, I look at hip-ho- p the Clash, like punk rock Suicidal Tendencies," william is going said. "Hip-ho- p its own through punk phase, and we're going to have a new Clash come out of it." (C) 2018 Los Angeles Times. , --- , ...--.).-ir--11 solo record, Taboo overcame a scary bout of cancer and protested the construction of an oil pipeline on the Standing The time away from the pop -- ' 1 ., . mid-augh- ft its Friday appearance, President Tnunp's "shithole" com- ment regarding immigrants from countries in Africa, Central America and the Caribbean had just begun circulating, and the message of "Street Livin" much-anticipat- Legendary hands, failing ears )ny tna Taboo when d on ime seemed a bit Pow," it - ) pro- io I. i t hip-ho- a eyObama to However, Sanz wanted to pay tribute to Carpenter. "I felt that she was singing about my life in a way that she expressed it teenage sensation known as Little Miss Dynamite for hits like "I'm Sorry" and "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree." "It was stunning to me and thrilling," Gleason says. "The revelation wasn't that the writing was great, from her or any of these writers, it was how willing they were to be vulnerable." For Floral Park's Cynthia Sanz, an executive editor at People who wrote about how important Mary Chapin Carpenter is to her, that didn't come easy. "I thought the idea for a book was a great one," Sanz says. "I was less interested in sharing my personal life. I'm happy to write about artists. I'm less happy to write about me. It's much easier to write about other people than it is to be introspective and write about your own life and your thoughts and feelings." about. "She used her sexuality and her own charms to stand on her own two feet," Gleason says of Tucker. "She was an empowered, intellectual hot all the things boys girl say they want ... . She was a big star doing what she wanted to do, doing it as she saw fit." In pulling together the submissions of "Woman Walk the Line," Gleason was struck by how it seemed everyone could find a moment in their lives where music fundamentally changed them. "One of the things that makes this book stand out, I think, is the passion people have for music and its potential for life change," she says. It was even apparent in the submission that surprised Gleason the most thoughts Taylor Swift, at the age of 18, country music . itua:11: ey to new- comers like Entertainment Weekly's Madison Vain. "It was super Gleason says. "I asked them, 'Who was it? Who was that one artist who changed everything your DNA rearranged, the world changed, what you thought was possible was different? What was the pivot and how did it play out?'" From the Tucker album, Gleason says she learned two valuable lessons not to be afraid of what others think and not to will I . life George-Warre- n had about Brenda Lee, the be so sure that you know what someone else is Country Changed Our Lives" (University of Texas Press), which collects female artists writing about the female country artists who influenced them. Gleason approached artists such as Taylor Swift and Rosanne Cash and writers ranging from critic Holly Holly 1 ( celebrates female artists new anthology "Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Music TNS - 9 DIXIESUNNEWS.COM face-tatte- ed . on BBC Radio 2. "I mean, I am hoping that people will come along and see me (for) more than (because) I am a curiosity. I know that - -A 7 APPLIED SOCIOLOGY RIM part of it, because it's amazing to myself that am still here." In 2016, Clapton revealed that nerve damage has affected his ability to play the guitar. The musician's only scheduled 2018 show so far is the July British Summer Time Fest in Hyde Park. STATE UNIVERSITY, is (c) 2018 New York Daily News. , , , - ! ' L e , L U IC LiEnhance |