"I feel alright," Bonzai declares, using one of those gratifyingly blank pop phrases that have been worn smooth by dozens or hundreds of songs, leaving only some familiar syllables and a faint hint of a feeling.
The 2012 Psy is about neon wigs, funky dance moves and catchy, English-language pop phrases, but he is not ashamed of having been anti-war.
" This pop phrase is not only obnoxious and snobby, it's insensitive and tactless.
It can be a tight band: in Ernie Wilkins's arrangement of "Moten Swing," a short, popping phrase was inserted into the whispering prologue, so cutting and loud that it startled even the most hard-core swing dancers.
More often he doles out vernacular pops of phrasing, of the sort now sometimes called Dan Ratherisms.
This is best illustrated by the pop culture phrase: "looking for Mr Right or Mr Right Now".
Popular standards are carved into thick slices of R&B-flavored pop, each phrase a man-size hunk of beef, seasoned with soul and jazz and served hot by a musical chef with the gregarious charm of a macho Santa Claus.
"[People ask] how does it feel being the genesis of the pop culture phrase that has defined – for all time – failure?" He pauses, then answers drily: "I wanna say... proud?" Well sure, you've got to be proud, I tell him.
Her slippery pop-jazz phrasing edged with the hint of a wail suits "The Gangster Rap," a song written with her husband, which, she explains, was inspired by her 20th high-school reunion at which she realized that her teenage heart throb had joined the Mafia.
Skulls pop up, phrases like "Mississippi Wolf Pack" appear, and spiders climb down faces.
Those include many pop-culture phrases including hashtag, catfish, freegan, selfie and steampunk.
