Manners explained that he wanted to use the song because "certain songs have a creepy, icky quality that none of us have really openly acknowledged".
There's a creepy grandstanding quality to much of the groveling on "Paula," as though he were convinced that the scale of his gesture, rather than its sincerity, is what matters.
Hotschnig's stories have the weird, creepy, and ambiguous quality of disturbing dreams.
Recycling also plays a role in Amy Podmore's "Placebo," a room-size mobile of effigies made of stuffed toys that were filled with plaster and then peeled, giving them a creepy, death-mask quality that deliberately recalls the body castings from Pompeii.
Nearly lifesize and made of impossibly dense clottings of tiny images of multiple body parts (both naughty and not), internal organs and musculature, these creatures have a creepy-crawly, almost pornographic quality.
But another aspect of it, I believe, which Adam Gopnik here comes the closest to putting his finger on of any commentator I've read so far, is the sheer strangeness of Trump's remarks, their disgusting, creepy, awkward, skin-crawling, quality.
Lilting lead single Powder finds Felix Bushe's affected falsetto turning from cute to creepy on a dime, a quality mimicked by guitarist John Victor's quiet/loud dynamics, while She's a Witch's MGMT-like chorus is undercut by disquieting lyrics about a witch that "cries all the time".
Lim admits to always being drawn to what many people call "creepy-cute"—creations that manage to be simultaneously ugly, gross or creepy while maintaining an adorable quality.
The scene's mythic quality is rendered uncanny, even creepy, by the microtone dissonances and irregular rumbles of Stephen Scott's electronic score.
