With their well-timed cries and croons, Hawthorne's vocal doppelgangers provide the key ingredient that holds his concoction together.

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"Let's not watch fireworks, let's make 'em instead, " the rap's male vocalist croons.

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By the time he croons, "Don't let it break your heart!"

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"How Does the Grass Grow, " which is built on the Shadows' 1960 instrumental "Apache, " is static, despite a brief interlude in which Mr. Bowie croons romantically.

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Hawkes presents a gaunt and gentle threat, not least when he croons a love song to the violated heroine, while Olsen is a beautiful paradox: an actress holding together a movie as a woman who is coming apart.

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One boy croons into my microphone.

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