The first 24 measures contain two highly coordinated allargandi, which serve to exaggerate the slightly off-kilter rhythm and sense of melodic propulsion.
Her performance is likewise compromised by off-kilter phrasing and diction gaffes that could have been cured in the recording session's controlled environment.
The country, once defined by the clear moral economics of apartheid, has tipped into an off-kilter netherworld, where fiction can only jog along behind current events, gawping.