Sentence examples for provocative records from inspiring English sources

In Los Angeles and Miami, groups like N.W.A. and 2 Live Crew were making artful and provocative records — building a vehement case for rap as a reimagining of folk music, a medium for populist unease, distrust, and insurgency — but for most casual American listeners hip-hop was a novelty genre.

Known for a series of sonically innovative, socially conscious and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows, television roles, and film roles, she has been a prominent figure in popular culture for over 25 years.

It's a brainy, messy, provocative record.

It's a provocative record, too, about war and mind control and black solidarity in what she calls the "world of greed and hate".

Jake Conway of Q Magazine at Yale agreed, writing that the lyrics of "S&M" display why the singer continues to be one of the most provocative recording artists in the music industry, highlighting how she "turns the tables on abusive ex-lover Chris Brown".

Did the icy gaze imply that her eighth album would be a provocative trap record in the same vein as BBHMM?

The director himself seems happy now to be classed as an entertainer, regardless of his provocative track record (one of his typical but lesser-known scripts, Epitaph for the Official Secrets Act, was performed in workshop at the RSC and goaded the establishment by telling the David Shayler story sympathetically).

Sergei Lisovsky, a fellow businessman and another guest of the programme where the incident occurred, testified yesterday that Mr Polonsky had been "aggressive and provocative" during the recording.

In an interview with a Web site run by the Leadership Institute, which recruits and trains conservative leaders and helped Mr. O'Keefe and Mr. Basel start their campus newspapers, they espoused a mix of traditional investigation — "Follow the money trail" — and more provocative techniques, like recording professors' lectures and printing the transcripts in the newspaper.

Pickard made fun of Bedingfield's "clean-cut, straight-toothed, good Christian girl" image, writing that the video was an effort by Bedingfield and her management to be provocative to sell more records.

Paddy Power has a record of provocative publicity stunts.