This contradicts all my feelings about gimmick fundraisers, which I, and many others, usually find trite or even annoying.
You wonder, in fact, if these two albums with Price were partly inspired by a desire to rebut the idea that dancefloor pop is something you outgrow, a narrative arc they probably find trite and depressing.
After noticing that Instagrammers were attracting huge follower counts by posting poems he found trite and insubstantial, he began to follow suit, posting saccharine one-line poems on his account, even as his captions hinted at the joke or openly criticized this style of poetry.
Reviewers in the United States, though, mainly found it trite.
Now, here's an interesting thing, and it illuminates why I find Perry so trite and shallow.
(I find this achingly trite and not representative of the reality of a creative person's life, but maybe it's a thing that people want to hear said). And Chrisann Brennan, the mother of the daughter Jobs long sought to repudiate, was no more than a pretty wronged voice, sung with lovely tones by Jessica Jones.
In the tradition of Carrie's column in "Sex and the City," Jenna's blog is a vehicle for Ms. Rickards to narrate the show, a device you could find either comforting or trite.
But I've always found the role trite — until Saturday afternoon, when Dances Patrelle performed "The Yorkville Nutcracker," and a 15-year-old dancer named Alexandros Pappajohn suddenly flooded the stage with style, charm and fantasy.
Many artists will find themselves doing the same trite cliches and sentimental claptrap day in and day out.
Here, though, she comes across as one of those tiresome people with trite theories you find yourself trapped talking to at a party — the one whose advice about men, dispensed with great confidence ten minutes after you meet her, you must remind yourself to ignore.
"I find them, to be honest, quite trite and quite annoying," Peaches said.
