Sentence examples for biting lyrics from inspiring English sources

It may be apocryphal, but Brown's complex, imaginative scores coupled with smart, biting lyrics have made him Sondheim's heir apparent.

Let's not forget the biting lyrics and sense of humour - Elvis Is Dead says more about modern society than a thousand Zack de la Rocha rants ever could.

February 7 2014 April 13 201414 What better way for a wife to get revenge on her Broadway-producer ex-husband than to write a bunch of biting lyrics about her divorce, turn them into a musical (with music by John Thomas Fischer), and mount it Off Broadway?

Inspired by John Gay's 1728 ballad opera (The Beggar's Opera), Bertolt Brecht's biting lyrics depicted the shockingly amoral behavior of the lower classes in Victorian England.

Davis squeals, growls and moans incisive, biting lyrics about gender roles, sexual politics, and most tellingly, the music biz itself -- which she left for good after this record got shelved.

In the late 1980s and early '90s, the Pixies redefined the alt-rock genre with stripped-down tunes, biting lyrics, and an unguarded attitude that inspired bands like Nirvana, Radiohead, and the Strokes, just to name a few.

Since his rise in 1997 fronting Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire in Chicago, Bird has documented his experiences through albums that team sophisticated melodies with smart, often-biting lyrics.

The album marked a shift toward the band's earlier sound; journalist Amy Sciarretto of CMJ New Music Report wrote that the album contained "neo-thrash riffing with biting, politically charged lyrics".

Nobody could bite a lyric, and then chew on it and chew on it, like Ms. Holliday, whose emotive singing style here reminds you how empty most of the melismatic vocalizing on "American Idol" and its various copycats has become.

But her lasting footprint was the mordant, biting, yet strangely tender lyrics she used to chronicle the world's lovers, lunatics and losers.

Initially, all anyone talked to Zappa about was the rock repertory he performed with the Mothers of Invention, songs that often featured biting social criticism and lyrics too blistering to play on the radio.