In the context of the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury, there's something infectious about her enthusiasm: her cover of Candi Staton's You Got The Love provokes a mass singalong.
A woman whose music doesn't really have that many subtleties to explore in the first place, Welch is ideally placed: You Got the Love provokes a mass singalong, and it's hard to begrudge her her unexpected moment.
November DON BYRON A commission from the newly re-energized Symphony Space, and a typical project from Mr. Byron, who loves provoking audiences and challenging their sense of retail-constructed genre.
Rather than get into yet another one with him, I'm more interested to find out what he thinks about the things that are often said about him, so I ask if it's true that he loves provoking the left.
We always underestimate the degree of prohibition that love provokes.
How could a teaching inspired by God's merciful love provoke scores of children to be abused and abandoned?
Not everything worth loving provokes love at first sight.
Here she is describing the almost painful physical sensation that love can provoke: "My stomach feels like it's popping, like an ice cube in a warm Pepsi".
"No, they love being provoked by me! Honestly, it makes them feel so much better about their lives to think that I'm a reactionary; it's a substitute for thought.
And like Truffaut, who delivered his notorious snub in an interview with none other than Alfred Hitchcock, they love to provoke us with their sense of cinematic superiority – yet cherish our great directors better than we do ourselves.
And having people joyfully give them to you, in the fond spirit of knowing you and understanding what you love, might provoke a feeling of anxiety, guilt, and grumpiness.
