Sentence examples for dubious lyrics from inspiring English sources

We were always getting into trouble for playing songs with dubious lyrics.

But then Mr. Altman raised his silky tenor voice in a rendition of Mr. Diamond's "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" that produced chills, despite its dubious lyrics about gentle deflowering.

It's lovely, all these symbols of peace and Christianity and Father Christmas with his snowy white beard and the carols with their stirring melodies and dubious lyrics, and pop songs preaching unity.

Like Wile E. Coyote realizing too late that he's walked off a cliff and is standing on thin air, "Britney Jean," the new studio album from Britney Spears, is marked with so many sleights of hand, dubious lyrics and bombastic but boringly simple melodies that the too-rare levitation of its better moments seems an animation trick.

Boasting dubious Hendrix samples, lyrics like "I need some herbs and spices, so I can feel nices," and sporting dreadlocks presumably inspired by Take That's Howard Donald, the Ice Man's second record only sold 42,000 copies.

They had a devoted following – "the ongoing bit of that punk subculture, mohican haircuts and all that, people hanging on to punk," as Pirroni puts it – but the music press had loathed them from the start, deriding them as punk arrivistes with a dubious line in lyrics.

Mr. Sperling made the dubious choice of crooning "The Nearness of You" (lyrics by Ned Washington) and "How Little We Know" (lyrics by Johnny Mercer) in a bland, rhythmically amorphous voice that didn't always land on the note.

Google hit back hard today after it learned lyrics site Rap Genius had been using dubious SEO tricks to attain top spots in search results.

Poetry is not, of course, synonymous with song lyric, and this review stops well short of that dubious claim.

"A printed collection [of lyrics]," says Stephen Sondheim at the beginning of Finishing the Hat, "is a dubious proposition".

The unclear extent of his Islamic faith, his ties to the dubious figure Arafat Abou Chaker, rumours about domestic violence and last but not least, his frequently sexist and homophobic lyrics have earned Bushido a lot of media attention in recent years.