Even as a kid, I loved bitterness.
Audiences love her bitterness: "Me having a tantrum in the corner for my cut of Star Wars toothpaste?
Last year Shelby Lynne released an album of songs about love and bitterness, "I Am Shelby Lynne," which sloughed off a decade of Nashville habits.
Anything you have would work here, but we love the bitterness of radicchio combined with the saltiness of olives and creamy ricotta.
The Wedding Present Seamonsters (1991) Harnessing the confrontational muscle of producer Steve Albini to a lyricist obsessed with love's bitterness and bile, Seamonsters is one of the most excoriating, exhilarating British indie albums of its decade.
"Follies" has always been a theatrical hall of mirrors, a nightmarish "Midsummer Night's Dream" of ghosts and illusions, reflecting the failure of romantic love, the bitterness of aging and the immutable fact that "all things beautiful must die," as the lyric for the song "One More Kiss" declares.
From his beaten-up and disturbed version of Soft Cell's Tainted Love, all bitterness distilled to violent rage, to the throbbing dark-disco stomp of The Beautiful People, he makes great pop songs that embrace the teenage fundamentals - swearing, strutting and sulking.
They have a long and profound love affair with bitterness that stretches back to the Romans.
All the great themes are here – conflict, love, betrayal, loyalty, bitterness and joy – and each time it's personal.
Over the years, in my non-free life, our love has contained bitterness imposed by the external environment, but is boundless in afterthought.
