Sentence examples for former genre from inspiring English sources

She had been approached to write books before, usually style tomes or a tell-all ("I was like, meh"), and she readily admits that the book is in part a send-up of that former genre, with its non-tips on how to get dressed ("Is the outfit clean – is it though?") and how to apply eyeliner ("I cannot help you").

The former is a genre with strict conventions and hints of hubris, centred on some great catastrophe and packed with star names.

"Red Blooded Woman" is a hip hop and synthpop track, the former being a genre Minogue newly experimented with on the album.

Kode9 – Black Sun (2009) A head-spinning take on house that heralded a much wider decampment to the genre from former dubstep fans, DJs and producers who had become tired of its rhythmic stasis.

A former backup singer for genre heavyweights Aventura, who updated bachata for the hip-hop generation, he has a sweet and high voice, in the style of Aventura's Romeo, but without its musk, resulting in love songs that are more pleas than insistences.

There's the ace yeller Danielle Staub, late of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey," who does her best to ingratiate herself with a giant of the genre, the former "Hills" tragic villain Heidi Montag, here on her first extended TV outing without her husband, Spencer Pratt, and looking softer than she did in her Jocelyn Wildenstein-esque postsurgery period.

US hip-hop giants such as Kanye and Drake will tell anyone who'll listen about their love for the genre (the former famously performing at the 2015 BRITs with a crew of UK grime rappers, including Stormzy); Skepta, now the scene's biggest star, was outselling both Beyoncé and Drake in the midweek charts with his new album Konnichiwa.

These curated selections are divided into Stations and Playlists, with the former based on specific genres and artists, with the latter adding in activities and moods too: the idea being to supply a stream of music to accompany what you're doing right now.

The former A&R scout turned genre-hopping musician has had tracks from her self-titled debut album appear on adverts for Bud Light, V05 and Converse.

At a stroke, the prince of darkness and the former PM have revived a genre with a distinguished pedigree.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former oil oligarch, pioneered the genre at the end of his trial in 2010 with an eloquent dissection of Russia's political predicament.