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Whatever is considered edgy and liberating in one generation is dismissed as bland and confining for the next.
Risque chart Then Mel and Kim Sisters Melanie and Kim Appleby were once considered edgy and provocative, but were tame by today's standards.
Catherine Opie Actual Accomplishment: In the mid-1990s, when tribal tattoos and piercings were still considered edgy, she photographed a clique of self-exiled men and women pushing these boundaries as a form of gender-bending.
She is loud, brash and sometimes crass, traits that for many white female comics (Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman) are considered edgy but for many black female comedians can either become a liability or a gimmick.
Vampires were considered "edgy" by the mainstream, two-pairs-of-jeans, never left their hometown crowd, when just a generation ago, it would have been considered a conspiracy to convert children into satanic worship, like D&D was in its time.
Asymmetrical bobs are considered edgy and trendy.
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What most UK viewers would call heart-warming, international fans consider edgy, as midwifery is a minority profession in the US.
"The people who read his books were considered rebels, edgy people who didn't conform.
McQueen is considered an edgy, relevant director, but his forceful analysis of the rights and wrongs of the IRA hunger strike, Hunger, appeared more than a quarter of a century after the issues were actually urgent.
Both were considered very edgy and ground-breaking at the time, even controversial.
"Perfect Dark" does not translate well into Japanese, and the title "Aka to Kuro" was considered sufficiently edgy.
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