Many pop artists spend decades of hard work trying to pin down a style that envelopes their voices, and Steve Jobs made it look easy and cool, tapping into a cache most artists and entrepreneurs could only dream of achieving.
Our pop culture models of leadership were hard-charging, no-excuses, all-in kinds of (mostly) men.
All of this has been great for a short-term pop, but it will be hard to keep this up.
Teen pop idol Justin Bieber has some of the most hard-core Twitter followers on the planet.
While Apple claims the device gets up to five hours of battery life--just about enough for a cross-country flight, provided you're not delayed--the inability to replace the battery on the go could be a problem for hard-core road warriors, who pop batteries into their machines the way a long-distance trucker gobbles amphetamines.
For one thing, it's hard to get airplay where radio stations prefer saccharine pop music.
Oddness overshadowed his real, hard-won achievements: world adulation for a black pop star, the birth of video celebrity, and millions of dollars given to black causes.
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Its song, containing everything that makes pop music insipid in one tidy package, has inspired a backlash so hard that a stunned Rebecca herself has likened it to cyberbullying.
That stimulus, mostly in the form of fixed asset investments in infrastructure, followed by low interest rates, fueled a hard asset bubble that the Chinese government has been trying to pop since last year.
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It's hard to listen to The Silver City, the new CD from Minnesota chamber-pop artist Jeremy Messersmith, without thinking of Sufjan Stevens.
Under the guidance of charismatic coach Jurgen Klopp, whose popularity has seen a pop song written about him, Dortmund's run to the final has left even the most hard-hearted of seasoned aficionados willing on the men in yellow and black.
It's then hard to imagine how the world's biggest retailers will wipe out the small mom-and-pop stores, which work to an organized chaos that few inventory-keeping systems can mimic.
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