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<center><h3> Once the king of caustic rock, | <center><h3> Once the king of caustic rock, Costello is now its{{nb}}croon{{nb}}prince </h3></center> | ||
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It's been years since Elvis Costello was an angry young man. According to his calculations, relayed over a cellphone from the back of a car in London, one would be hard-pressed to find a caustic pun in anything he's written during the last decade — certainly not the score to a dance production of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', nor a work for countertenor and viol ensemble, nor even his lush pop collaboration with | It's been years since Elvis Costello was an angry young man. According to his calculations, relayed over a cellphone from the back of a car in London, one would be hard-pressed to find a caustic pun in anything he's written during the last decade — certainly not the score to a dance production of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', nor a work for countertenor and viol ensemble, nor even his lush pop collaboration with Burt Bacharach. | ||
Still, Costello will always be king of the cutting barb. He'll forever be bristling with guilt and pumped for revenge, his real feelings brilliantly disguised by a barrage of acerbic wordplay and clever chord changes. Costello understands that in the annals of rock he will go down as the stiff misanthropic dweeb, dumped by Alison and sneering. | Still, Costello will always be king of the cutting barb. He'll forever be bristling with guilt and pumped for revenge, his real feelings brilliantly disguised by a barrage of acerbic wordplay and clever chord changes. Costello understands that in the annals of rock he will go down as the stiff misanthropic dweeb, dumped by Alison and sneering. | ||
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"I've written lots of bitter, accusatory songs," says Costello, a gracious and erudite conversationalist. "But there's a curious anomaly to me being thought of as a rock 'n' roll singer. My main thing has always been to sing ballads and write in the ballad form. I don't equate emotion with histrionics, or even a raised voice. That's a terrifying sound, but there's a lot to be said for the tender word and the whispered remark." | "I've written lots of bitter, accusatory songs," says Costello, a gracious and erudite conversationalist. "But there's a curious anomaly to me being thought of as a rock 'n' roll singer. My main thing has always been to sing ballads and write in the ballad form. I don't equate emotion with histrionics, or even a raised voice. That's a terrifying sound, but there's a lot to be said for the tender word and the whispered remark." | ||
Costello's fascination with the classic pop songcraft of Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart reaches back to 1982, the year he turned 27, when Costello released '' | Costello's fascination with the classic pop songcraft of Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart reaches back to 1982, the year he turned 27, when Costello released ''Imperial Bedroom''. Track 6 was a melancholy affair called "[[Almost Blue (song)|Almost Blue]]," a song that's become a jazz-pop vocal standard covered by [[Chet Baker]], [[Jimmy Scott]], and most recently Costello's fiancee, the Canadian singer Diana Krall. Costello began to carve a career as one of the most eclectic and gifted songwriters of his era — going country one year, burrowing into soul the next, flirting with jazz, and immersing himself in classical music. | ||
"He's a risk taker. He certainly took a chance making a record with me," says Bacharach. "The guy simply won't be bound to one kind of music, nor should he be. He's always investigating because he can." | "He's a risk taker. He certainly took a chance making a record with me," says Bacharach. "The guy simply won't be bound to one kind of music, nor should he be. He's always investigating because he can." | ||
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[[Joan Anderman]] interviews Elvis Costello about ''[[North]]''. | [[Joan Anderman]] interviews Elvis Costello about ''[[North]]''. | ||
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