It's considered one of the artier and tamer porn parodies.
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The artier fare has allowed him to explore his eccentric side.
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"The Antlered Ship" aims for a dreamier, artier style of sea-faring fantasy.
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Provincial cinema is known for artier fare, where costs are low and returns steady.
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The townie kid music was mostly punk and hardcore, and the college bands were a little artier.
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To date, it has involved a lot of leather in outsize blouson proportions and knitwear in clingier, artier forms.
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I started seeing The Sex Pistols at the 100 Club and noticed the artier types sporting that same little swastika.
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And the feeling was that he belonged to an earlier, artier generation that took its provocative intellectual postures far too seriously.
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Then she got even more daring, devising tracks that warp and splinter the beat, and the artier electronic-music world took notice.
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And yet, despite taking roles that flout convention, Driver has achieved certified A-list success, balancing work in Hollywood blockbusters with artier fare.
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Title fonts like these prioritize readability; they're marketable to a wide audience and, one might assume, generally easier and cheaper to produce than artier custom designs.
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"Mura Masa" features collaborators from hip-hop (Desiigner), rock (Damon Albarn from Gorillaz and Blur), mainstream pop (Jamie Lidell) and pop's artier extensions (Christine and the Queens).
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But now that "Arrival," in particular, has put 21 Laps on a different part of the Hollywood map, Mr. Levy is also charging full-speed ahead with artier projects.
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After moving from Melrose to Miami, this boutique still offers the same playful mix of apparel and accessories it became famous for in LA, but with a slightly artier bent.
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The artier types within the Academy will likely eschew its staid, traditional biopic nature, while those who like that sort of thing could easily gravitate toward some of the other nominees.
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You also had working-class art school kids getting into the artier part of glam, like Roxy Music, whose following seemed to have a more aspirational following consisting of British working class.
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" He also emphasized that Disney will continue to make movies for theatrical release — not just Marvel blockbusters, but also Fox Searchlight's artier films, which will continue to "find their way into theaters.
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ADULT. always felt a bit more serious than their peers, a bit artier, a bit more aloof, a bit less likely to prance around small clubs with a dildo strapped to their forehead.
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Stories of both record ovations and loud booing are often just a little overblown, inflated by the hype machine that is a film festival (even one that's skewed toward artier fare, like Cannes).
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LaBeouf has long since stepped away from hugely successful movie releases like Transformers, the fourth Indiana Jones film and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps in favor of more indie films and his artier projects.
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Lady Gaga's major label career started with simple, ultra-catchy disco pop before moving into ambitious, artier pop, then something she called "Artpop" that was anything but, then — sigh — a strained play for authenticity.
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Before the Bowie songs, Iggy Pop had revealed an artier side with spoken-word pieces set to music by Philip Glass, who organized and hosted the Tibet House concert, as he has from the start.
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For all their beauty and imagination, Sarah Lane, in a short, flirty dress, and Cory Stearns, in jeans and a white T-shirt, looked as if they were part of an artier outtake from "Dirty Dancing," the 1987 film.
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While there was truth to that, the fact that it was released on Jade Tree, a label that was home to plenty other punks turning in artier, more obtuse records, Jets To Brazil was the latest example of the genre's expansion.
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Meanwhile, songwriters like Lorde — who has toured arenas with Mitski as an opening act — and, from the artier end of the spectrum, St. Vincent, have made it abundantly clear that pop's computerized, synthetic tools don't have to limit self-expression.
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After years of questions about the Academy Awards' tastes skewing toward artier fare than audiences enjoy (and the Academy taking thwarted stabs to address that fact), the nominations for the 2019 Oscars seem downright populist compared to the past few years of Best Picture nominees.
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Ocasek was also renowned as a producer, having collaborated over the years with a number of artier underground bands (Suicide, Romeo Void, Bad Brains, Guided By Voices, Le Tigre, Brazilian Girls) — whose eccentricities the Cars shared, albeit in more sublimated ways — as well as other pop bands (Weezer, No Doubt).
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How successful the new album will be outside the critical sphere I couldn't say — on the one hand, her radio dreams are gone, with Radio Music Society's moony love songs replaced by braver and artier meditations on freedom, love, and the creative impulse; on the other, jazz has become a fashionable genre in the pop world recently, and anyway, Emily's D+Evolution achieves a streamlined poetic-melodic flow that's very singer-songwriter.
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Upon its release, "Venus" received mixed reviews from music critics. Shirley Li of Entertainment Weekly was positive in her assessment of the song, describing it as "catchy". Lars Brandle of Billboard gave a positive review, noting its "catchy, radio-friendly chorus." Philip Sherburne wrote in Spin magazine that Artpop gets "a lot artier" with "Venus".
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Released internationally in London's East West Film Festival in June 1998, Spicy Love Soup was generally well received by western critics. Derek Elley of Variety cited the film as being a pioneering example of the "well directed" Chinese movie, that nevertheless doesn't fall into the camp of "artier" fare. The film was also well received in mainland China, where it had been released a year earlier, where it became one of the most successful independent films released domestically.
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"Everybody's Problem"/"There Was" was a follow up single to the band's debut album and demonstrated a style shift advised by Red Rhino's Tony Perrin who had convinced Cocker that he "could write commercial songs like Wham!". However, the single failed to achieve any success at that time with Jarvis Cocker becoming unhappy with his chosen musical direction, which later led to various lineup changes and the establishment of a new, more experimental, artier and noisier direction for Pulp.
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Robert Christgau of The Village Voice panned the album, writing, "The musical parsimony, cultural insularity, moral certitude, and histrionic affectations of these lo-fi artier-than-thous promise indie ideologues whole lifetimes of egoistic irrelevance." Stylus Magazines Akiva Gottlieb wrote, "Obviously, Stewart has a penchant for self- examination—some of it brilliant and incisive—but his work is also obnoxiously self-indulgent." Fabulous Muscles has appeared on a few end of year lists. The Morning News named it the 7th best album of 2004.
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In 1980, "Keep on Working" was released as the final single from Empty Glass in the UK, following his success with "Let My Love Open the Door" and "Rough Boys". Backed with its fellow Empty Glass track "Jools and Jim", the song was a commercial flop, failing to chart at all. The single wasn't released in the US, where "A Little Is Enough" was issued instead. AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine criticized "Keep on Working" for being "a little artier than it needs to be".
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Their second album, No Wow, was released by Domino Records on February 21, 2005. Featuring an artier, less "guitar rock" sound, the record embraced post punk influences and sounded even more stripped down than Keep on Your Mean Side. Originally written to be performed on a Moog, the band was forced to change directions and record it primarily using a guitar after Hince's Moog broke and couldn't be repaired before entering the studio. A 40-minute DVD documentary was included with a limited number of copies and features interview, performance and on the road footage shot on tour.
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AllMusic reviewer Heather Phares said the Anniversary expanded on "some of their artier tendencies and keeping the playful, hooky songwriting that made their debut so refreshing". Phares praised Schapf's "aptly lush" production work and said the band's "inherent, slightly awkward earnestness shines through at every turn". Stephen Rauch of PopMatters said that while Your Majesty retains the male–female vocals and keyboard from Designing a Nervous Breakdown, it is "a very different album" and the tracks are "more straight-forward". According to Rauch, despite the loss of up-tempo material in favor of "slower, more deliberate songs", it is "still a very good album".
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Siren remains one of Roxy Music's most critically acclaimed albums. Critic Dave Marsh described Siren in 1983 as "Roxy's masterpiece, calling the listener back by virtue of its finely honed instrumental attack and compelling lyrical attitude". In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that Roxy Music's unabashed embrace of dance and pop music on Siren, while resulting in their distinctive "artier tendencies" being toned down, produces "a thematic consistency that works in [the album's] favor" and elevates it "into the realm of classics." Rob Sheffield refers to Siren as "the first Roxy Music album without any failed moments" in 2004's The New Rolling Stone Album Guide.
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Spy Glass Blue is an American post-punk/new wave/Britpop band formed by Allan Aguirre of Scaterd Few, is credited for legitimizing and authenticating the post-punk genre in Christian alternative music (ACM) much in the same way that Scaterd Few defined punk rock in Contemporary Christian music (CCM). In the words of the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music, Spy Glass Blue is a "rare example of Christian goth music." As Allan's solo effort shows Allan's artier ("mellower, artistic") side where Scaterd Few showed his edgier side. Aguirre likens the band's presence to the restructuring of other Christian Alternative bands: Mortal to Fold Zandura or the Crucified to Stavesacre.
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Q likewise gave the album 4 stars and called it "an essay in coolly assured, sophisticated leftfield rock, occasionally laden with trademark discordance yet also full of scintillating tunes". Billboard gave it a favorable review and said the album "features some of the group's most focused and seductive work ever". Mojo also gave the album 4 stars while labeling it as the "Album of the Month", and said, "The band's conventional elements are even more conventional while the boundary-pushers stretch as far as ever". Spin likewise gave the album a score of 8 out of 10 and said, "This time around, the band square their artier tendencies with their sweet tooth for classic psych-rock".
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In a review for the limited-edition box set David Bowie Box (2007), critic Thom Jurek described Reality as a "schizophrenic recording", on which the covers of George Harrison's "Try Some, Buy Some" and the Modern Lovers' "Pablo Picasso" "[distinguish] this set more than anything else". Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic praised the album, complimenting the way Bowie and Visconti were able to modernise their former 1970s sound. While he called its predecessor "an amalgam of Hunky Dory to "Heroes", he writes that Reality picks up where its predecessor left off, creating an amalgam of "Heroes" to Scary Monsters. He felt that the album was "artier" than Heathen, but "similar in feel" and "just as satisfying.
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They also praised the acting of Ward Roberts as Justin and Jeremiah Birkett as Lo, writing they did "fine work, good enough to distract us from the fact that both of them spend most of the running time sitting or lying in the same spot," but did not think as highly of the rest of the cast, offering that Sarah Lassez as April failed in making her character "both weird and lovable" and that Devin Barry as a "nasally fey" Jeez became "seriously annoying within seconds." They wrote that the biggest disappointment with the film was "it is simply too obviously padded," and every scene suffered from the director's "need to make the runtime acceptably feature length." They granted that the film was ambitious and it stood apart from most micro-budget films of its kind "by shooting for much artier heights", but as technically adept as the project was, it would have been far better had it been released in a shorter version.
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Upon release, Billboard picked the single as a recommended pop single and wrote: "Seminal British synthpop duo unevils one of its infrequent singles, sounding a good deal mellower and more relaxed than in its "Living on the Ceiling" days."Billboard magazine - Reviews: singles - November 30, 1985 - page 57 Billboard also commented on the 12-inch remix of "Lose Your Love", commenting: "The epic-length remix of "Lose Your Love" suggests that a new, artier form of high-energy may be emerging..." Dave Ling of Number One said: ""Lose Your Love" is an emphatic addition to their list of triumphs, boasting an odd two-fingered twiddly keyboard arrangement and a chorus of truly immense proportions. Miss it at your peril."Number One magazine - Singles - Dave Ling - 2 November 1985 - page 36 In a review of the 2017 deluxe edition of Believe You Me, Paul Scott-Bates of Louder Than War described the song as an "immediate singalong track with a wall of sound and a toe-tapping chorus that is difficult to shake".
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Since almost no one on these shores has heard what he's done in the past, it's not hard to consider this a brand new album by a brand new artist." Jon Marlowe of The Miami News commented in 1976: "All his previous albums, and a greatest hits package called A Closer Look, have been filled with classic material such as "Tumbling Down" and "Cavaliers"." Donald A. Guarisco of AllMusic retrospectively said: "A nice sampler of this group's glory days, A Closer Look divides its time between the two sides of Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel: short pop tunes that blended clever lyrics with hook-filled tunes and lengthier, often orchestrated epics that allowed Harley to give full rein to his arty ambitions. Although it omits some crucial hits like "Judy Teen" and was released too early to include anything from the excellent Love's a Prima Donna album, A Closer Work remains a solid introduction to the career of an underrated but very worthwhile group from the artier side of glam rock.
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