Doo wop became the first style of R&B-derived music "to take shape, to define itself as something people recognized as new, different, strange, theirs" (emphasis in original).
Despite strong singing, typically intense and full throated with strange phrasing and emphasis, the songs can grow dry and austere.
This subtle, strange, bitterly comedic emphasis on the totemic and symbolic power of objects, as seen through the eyes of the film's protagonist, lends Peele's direction classical reverberations.
Doing so, he somehow reaffirms the durability of painting, and not incidentally, invents strangely beautiful pictures, the emphasis equally on strange and on beautiful.
"And that," she says with somewhat occult emphasis, "is strange".
In the first act of "Strange Attractors," however, the emphasis is on formal abstraction, as two lines of dancers weave through the same space but seldom touch.
'Gecko' is just the latest in a line of dance music videos that have placed a distinct emphasis on strange concepts, following on from the implanted tape player in Duke Dumont's 'Need U (100%)' and human heads replacing genitalia in 'Big Bad Wolf' by Duck Sauce.
With his emphasis on the strange and dark power, the disjunctive spontaneity of even the most familiar phrase, he made it sound wrenched from the depths of Beethoven's soul.
This may look strange given the social network's emphasis on sharing information.
Its emphasis on natural gas is strange, for one thing: America does not have many natural gas vehicles.
