Sentence examples for pithy lyrics from inspiring English sources
And, of course, as Laurent points out, these cryptic, pithy lyrics are all about losing and remembering knowledge, stories, recipes… places, and, most sadly, people.
And, of course, as Laurent points out, these cryptic, pithy lyrics are all about losing and remembering — knowledge, stories, recipes… places, and, most sadly, people.
In contrast, Taylor Swift is a thoroughly surprising entity – a child star turned gritty, stealth robo-bitch, exuding a quiet sass in pithy lyrics, performing in outfits which maintain focus on her facial lips not her labia.
THE DECEMBERISTS -- Another fine Portland indie-rock band, this one led by Colin Meloy, possessed of a thin, strong voice and a sensibility that lies somewhere between Morrissey and Edward Gorey -- he writes pithy lyrics about mopey lovers trapped in an older, less gentle world.
Mann's pithy lyrics were one of the assets that attracted Epic.
Not only can he turn a pithy lyric ("I'm aware of the procedure/ But normally it's me that leaves her"), but, clearly, Mount is as obsessed with songcraft as he is with vintage synths.
This lyricist for cabaret standards including "Ballad of the Sad Young Men" and "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" lives in England and is still going strong as a writer of pithy, cynical lyrics that couch dark sentiments in light verses suggesting a post-Beat Dorothy Parker.
The festival included musicians aiming for the Top 10 like Charli XCX, an English songwriter with furious, catchy, electronic dance-pop songs about being a woman scorned, or f(x), a Korean K-pop "idol band" of five young women with busy dance routines and English-language choruses, or Willy Moon, who belts pithy pop lyrics over any beat with muscle, from a Bo Diddley stomp to a hip-hop sample.
It occurred to me then that every participant was striving to please one of the two famous poets in that group by writing very pithy, economical lyrics.
Listen for starters to the earth-shattering Rite, the remarkably pithy Three Japanese Lyrics, the transcendent Symphony of Psalms, and In Memoriam Dylan Thomas.
The verse rhythms are fluid and flexible, allowing for passages of lyric song, and the language is pithy and vivid: I shan't soon forget Clytemnestra's dismissal of the hated Cassandra as "this sour-faced slut who sucked the sailors raw".
