In a conventional popular idiom, the presence of a backing group is intended to support or form an antiphonal dialogue with theleadsinger(s).
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With the bird-pitched opening line of theleadsinger, flags appear on the edge of the circle, held aloft by a uniformed honor guard.
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This return reverses the usual priority of symbolic over semiotic, and ofleadsingerover chorus.
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The difference is that the boy-group chorus never challenges theleadsinger: rather than the egalitarian rivalry of the girl-group dialogue, the boy-group portrays a consensual hierarchy.
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Now clearly, these three roles of the chorus place it in a linguistic sphere which is subordinate to that of theleadsinger, with his fully articulate command of language.
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In this case, these opening lines can equally well be heard as addressed to the audience of male adolescents (missing out on the experiences that theleadsingerhas had).
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Below: theleadsingerwith the drummers.
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Cal was chosen as the group'sleadsinger.
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Often theleadsingeris assigned to a certain song due to voice qualities.
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Without aleadsinger, the band found itself unable to tour to capitalize on the heightened nostalgia for 1980s music demonstrated by the show.
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Slawson is theleadsingerfor the group.
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Me being aleadsingerwasn't part of the plan, not for me anyway.
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He was theleadsingerof the band, which performed his compositions.
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She picks up a picture of her and theleadsinger, and throws it into the toilet, symbolizing the end of the relationship.
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She stands there for a while, then she goes back into the bathroom, with theleadsingerright behind her.
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