“One more summer / one more weekend / I’m your lover / You’re my weakenss,” Stefani pleads amid pounding drums from Adrian Young. One More Summer – With an opening guitar riff worthy of New Order, No Doubt channels a different side of its longtime love of the 80s on this quasi-breakup anthem. Musical proof that Stefani is just as surprised to look as good as she does at 42 (!) as the rest of us.ģ. Looking Hot – Let the party begin! “Go ahead and look at me / ‘Cuz that’s what I want,” Stefani sings at the beginning of this dance-rock banger, a tongue-in-cheek ode to being a well-preserved frontwoman heading back on the road. “Looking Hot,” for example, is a guitar-heavy rave-up in the style of 2001’s “Hella Good,” but with a surprise Jamaican horn breakdown straight out of “Spiderwebs.” Then there’s “Undone,” the closest No Doubt has come to a reaching-for-the-rafters power ballad since “Don’t Speak.”Ģ. Though the reception has been mixed for dancehall-inflected lead single “Settle Down,” there are singles to spare on “Push and Shove,” many of which rival and occasionally harken back to their biggest hits. Largely unconcerned with modern radio trends - save for a semi-dubstep chorus on the Major Lazer-assisted title track - “Push and Shove” is a celebration of No Doubt’s love for all things 80s pop and the Southern California ska scene. I hope you will find these phrases useful.It’s been 11 years since No Doubt‘s last studio album, “Rock Steady,” and 17 since “Tragic Kingdom” produced hits “Just A Girl,” “Spiderwebs” and “Don’t Speak.” Listening to “Push And Shove,” the group’s fifth studio album, and it’s often difficult to tell where the time went. We’ve been struggling to build up the business, but at last we can see light at the end of the tunnel. Someone who is the light of your life is the person you love most and who makes you feel happy, and if you say there is light at the end of the tunnel, you mean that although things are difficult now, you believe that they will soon get better: This was one of the darkest periods in European history. He was in a particularly dark mood that day. I lost my job and my friends and found myself in a very dark place indeed. We also talk about a dark timeor dark period, and if we make dark predictions, we are pessimistic about the future: Someone who is in a dark mood is unhappy or angry. If we are in a dark place, we are unhappy or having difficult problems. I will finish with metaphors of unhappiness and happiness. The factory was a shining example of good working practice. He was a beacon of light in an evil world. Similarly, we talk about someone or something being a shining example of something good: On the other hand, we use terms such as a shining light or a beacon/ ray of light to describe people or things that are good or give hope, especially in a generally bad environment. They’re involved in various murky business deals. Other adjectives connected with darkness, for example shady, shadowy and murkyare also used to denote dishonesty: We use the word darkto talk about bad actions or characteristics. Now we turn to metaphors of evil and goodness or purity. This evidence did not come to light until after the trial.Īre you able to shed any light on this subject? New facts were brought to light by scholars. We were completely in the dark about what was happening.Ĭonversely, if you bring something to light or if something comes to light, people find out about it, while if you cast/shed/throw light on something, you give people information about it: They were planning to leave, but they kept it dark. If you keep something dark, you keep it secret, and if you are in the dark about something, you don’t know anything about it: We’ll start with ignorance and knowledge. There are many common phrases that exemplify this, and this post will look at some of the most common ones. These quotes, from Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, perfectly demonstrate the way darkness and light are used as metaphors in English (and many other languages), with darkness suggesting ignorance, evil and unhappiness and light signifying knowledge, purity and happiness. ‘In the midst of darkness, light persists.’ ‘Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.’
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