A handful even manage clever melodies.
The brave formula would falter without her clever melodies anchoring it; her third studio album, "Visions" (4AD), is both skittish and stalwart.
The band evolved, during the nineteen-nineties, from a crude but effective bar band to a sophisticated purveyor of esoteric lyrics and clever melodies.
During the next eight hours Mr. Folds, a rock songwriter known for his conversational lyrics, percussive piano and clever melodies, collaborated with the playwright Jonathan Marc Sherman ("Clive") on "Losing It," a 20-minute musical.
I think this has less to do with Swift trying to become some sort of hybrid and more to do with how the classic American song — clever lyric, clear melody, distinct verse-chorus-bridge narrative — is migrating between genres and can be found anywhere now.
He was an incredibly smart lyricist and incredibly clever with a melody; writing songs that could have been released in 2015 without anyone perceiving them as outdated.
Full of clever sounds, with melodies butting up against countermelodies and more laughs than you might think, Comedown Machine is by no means a bad record.
In others, such as Tiffany Lou (and how's that for a country-sounding title?), the music is almost stomach-churning – chopped'n'screwed vocals like chewed up tape which require a couple of listens before you realise just how pretty, and clever, Gibson's melodies are, weaving in and out of the twanging guitars.
Recently, critically-acclaimed alt rock band They Might Be Giants graced Iowa City's Englert Theater with their clever lyrics, energetic melodies and bizarre showmanship as part of a tour to promote their new album Nanobots.
