After the R-rated "There's Something About Mary" and "Me, Myself and Irene," they showed off their sensitive side with a pair of sweet, borderline surrealist fables: "Shallow Hal" (2001), a body-image fairy tale with Gwyneth Paltrow in a fat suit, and "Stuck on You," a testament to brotherly attachment and separation.
Mills views himself as an outsider, a borderline recluse, but his sweet-natured, Eeyoreish manner disarms almost everyone.
Gibbard's voice was described as "plaintive boy-next-door" Entertainment Weekly commented on the music on Plans, saying "The lush arrangements are long on hothouse organs and pianos, but short on the squirmy guitars and squirrelly beats that, on Gibbard's best work, offset his sweet voice and borderline-maudlin poetics with a sense of emotional danger".
Madonna finally added "Dress You Up" to the 2009 leg of the Sticky & Sweet Tour, replacing the rock version of "Borderline".
Considering all sampled trees within Sweet Home, the tungsten increase through time is borderline significant (Table 1).
"Borderline" was added to the set list of the first leg of her Sticky & Sweet Tour in 2008 during the Old School section of the performance.
But the movie that truly ignited the blaxploitation phenomenon was completely independent: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) is also perhaps the most outrageous example of the form: wildly experimental, borderline pornographic, and essentially a manifesto for a black American revolution.
According to Melinda Newman of HitFix, the song is a "sweet, Bangles-like, slab of ear pop candy that recalls [Madonna's] earliest singles, 'Holiday' and 'Borderline'".
Borderline irresponsible.
